Roto Con Orders 2.0: new functions and new design

The new user interface supports intuitive working and therefore makes it easier for beginners to get started. Self-explanatory access to the individual contents is ensured by the new menu guidance. There is also quick access to the new “Direct configuration” function, which takes you straight to the input mask.

Improved usability

All users benefit equally from the revised user guidance. For example, there is now a configuration progress bar, so the user can clearly see which process step is currently running.

Dealers and window manufacturers can export their completed hardware configuration to PDF, Excel and CAD file formats in order to integrate it into their own offers and orders. With just one click, they can generate an illustration of the drilling pattern for the hardware solution just developed. Just a few operation steps are all it takes to produce a precise parts list for a hardware solution, including a technical illustration.

Contact: direct and fast

That’s what users want from their exchanges with the creators of Roto Con Orders. And with the newly integrated contact form, their wish is met. With it, users can ask questions about hardware configurations and the configurator

or can send their suggestions for the tool to the Con Orders team. Direct submission using the Con Orders form is the best way to ensure the fastest response.

Planning in a team

Using the “Key User” function, registered users can save their hardware templates or data in a separate, protected project folder within the database. On request, several users can access this data pool at the same time and can work together on an existing application.

Consistantly digitalised

With immediate effect, all window or door manufacturers can send the hardware configurations they have created in Roto Con Orders directly to their shopping cart with their dealers. Dealers wishing to offer their customers this option, can provide this direct service jointly with Roto. Their consultants from the Roto sales department will provide support with the preparations and ensure further coordination.

The advantage: from hardware configuration in Roto Con Orders to order placement for the Roto hardware components, the same digital data is always accessed. This reduces costs in the value creation chain and eliminates error sources.

“We have established the technical requirements to ensure that dealers can offer their customers this option and warmly invite them to choose their optimum form of digital collaboration with us”

said Eberhard Mammel, summarizing this new feature.

Errors are ruled out

Working with Roto Con Orders guarantees technically correct results, as each configuration is tested for plausibility by comparing all parameters. Some customers have already programmed interfaces through which the data from Roto Con Orders is automatically further processed into bills of materials and orders in their IT system. Bills of materials and prices from the user’s PC can also be incorporated.

Free and mobile

The hardware configurator is still available to Roto customers free of charge. It is optimized for mobile use on tablets.

Additional new features will follow

In the coming months, the second programme release will complete the hardware configurator with further new functions, such as FAQs, glossary and “How-To videos”. At the same time, an e-learning module will be made available. This module guides new users through working with the configurator and explains the full range of its functions.

After the second programme release, we will provide information on the further functions in the international industry press, via our worldwide social media channels and, of course, also in a future edition of Roto Inside. If you are interested, please ask your Roto sales department directly about the new functions and the e-learning module.

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This article was published in Roto Inside 53.