GEZE – Your partner for door, window, and safety technology
Introducing Configuration and Variant Management with ⁴PEP
GEZE has been a successful and economically sound family business since 1863, proving itself worldwide over the years. The company connects stakeholders across all phases of the building lifecycle and achieves outstanding results through industry and technical expertise. GEZE offers innovative door, window, and safety technology for smart buildings worldwide.
The use of ILC‘s ⁴PEP Product Structure and Variant Management saves time and noticeably improves the process quality.
Customer Quote
“⁴PEP enables us to map complex configurations easily and transparently – even without expert knowledge. This saves time and noticeably improves the quality of our processes – a real added value for our daily work!“
Thomas Renz, Product Configuration Manager (PM)
Company
- GEZE GmbH
- locations: Leonberg (Germany), 37 subsidiaries worldwide
- industry: door, window, and security technology
- products: locking and security systems
- revenue: > 525 million € (2024/2025)
- employees: > 3,500 (2025)
- Web: www.geze.de
Challenges
- outdated configuration models and legacy issues in the product portfolio
- increasing product complexity due to internationalization and product networking
- growing requirements for configuration solutions
- limited availability of experienced LO-VC modelers
Highlights & customer benefits
- successful proof of concept: product experts were able to create configurations without prior experience
- introduction of ⁴PEP with broad requirements coverage
- visual, matrix-based modeling without programming
- go-live within just a few months
- approximately 50% faster creation of configuration models
- reduction of complexity-related costs through transparent rule sets
- higher quality in quotations and orders through more precise configurations
- rapid enablement of business departments to independently create and maintain models
