Pumps and Compressors:
Managing Variants, Accelerating Quotations
Pumps and compressors are configured according to fluid medium, operating pressure, flow rate, and material requirements – an ideal domain for rule-based automation. Software Made by Lino® makes sales faster and engineering more efficient.
Why Pump Manufacturers Are Hitting Efficiency Limits
Enormous variant diversity, complex technical sizing requirements, and time-intensive documentation are equally constraining sales and engineering:
Hundreds of Variants Across Materials and Design Configurations
Pump type, casing material, impeller geometry, shaft sealing, drive size, and connection dimensions yield hundreds to thousands of possible configurations per product series. Manually managing this complexity across catalogs, CAD systems, and ERP is error-prone and ties up valuable engineering resources that are needed for product development.
Technical Sizing as a Sales Bottleneck
Selecting the correct pump requires detailed knowledge of flow rate, head, NPSH values, fluid properties, and operating point characteristics. Sales staff are often unable to perform this sizing without engineering support – every inquiry generates a follow-up to the technical department, delaying the quotation process by days.
©GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
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Customer-Specific Adaptations Under Time Pressure
Special sealing arrangements, explosion-proof (ATEX) designs, or non-standard connection dimensions require design modifications. With tight quotation deadlines, there is simply no time for manual adjustments to CAD models – orders are lost to faster competitors, even when the technical solution is already available in-house.
Time-Intensive Documentation Requirements
Technical data sheets, characteristic curve diagrams, ATEX compliance documentation, exploded-view drawings, and spare parts lists must be produced for every pump variant. This documentation effort frequently exceeds the actual engineering workload and can delay quote submission by several days.
Use Cases: How Pump Manufacturers Benefit in Practice
Three typical scenarios showing how Lino solutions accelerate sales and relieve the engineering workload:
Technical Sizing and Configuration of Centrifugal Pumps Based on Operating Conditions
The sales team enters the fluid medium, volumetric flow rate, total head, and operating temperature into the CPQ system. The system calculates the operating point, recommends the appropriate pump series, and automatically configures the casing material, impeller, shaft sealing, and drive unit. Design Automation then generates the complete 3D model with all connections and installation dimensions – in under ten minutes, technically validated and ready for quotation.
Automated Exploded-View Drawings for Spare Parts Catalogs
For every configured pump variant, an exploded-view drawing with numbered individual components, a spare parts list with article numbers, and a technical data sheet including the performance curve are generated automatically. This documentation is stored in the PDM/PLM system via system integration and provided to the customer as a service package – consistent, up-to-date, and requiring no manual creation effort.
Simplified 3D Models for Customer-Side Plant Integration
Customers who need to integrate the pump into their plant design receive a geometrically accurate envelope model with connection and installation dimensions, generated through model simplification – without exposing any internal engineering know-how. The STEP export is produced automatically from the configuration output. This allows manufacturers to protect their intellectual property while simultaneously supplying all planning-relevant data, with zero manual effort.
Measurable Results. End-to-End Automated from the First Customer Requirement to the Configured Pump.
70 %
faster quotation cycles
< 10 min
from sizing data to configured 3D model
≥ 35 %
fewer engineering queries generated by the sales team
Software for Pump and Compressor Manufacturers
The right software products for technical sizing, automated engineering, and comprehensive documentation:
Tacton CPQ
The constraint-based engine intuitively guides users to a technically sound solution. It significantly speeds up the quote generation process and ensures maximum price transparency through automated real-time calculations for the sales team.
Tacton Design Automation
Transforms expert knowledge into intelligent rules to automatically generate complex 3D models, drawings, and bill of materials—saving up to 90% of engineering time.
Lino® Hub
Seamlessly connects sales, engineering, and manufacturing for end-to-end digital processes.
Seamlessly integrates CPQ, CAD, ERP, and PDM for error-free, automated data flows without media breaks.
Lino® Automate
Transforms routine CAD tasks into fully automated workflows using intelligent action lists and seamlessly integrates them with PDM, PLM, or ERP systems—for maximum time savings.
Lino® Simplify
Reduces 3D complexity for maximum performance and secure protection of intellectual property.
Relevant Processes
The digital engineering processes supported by Lino connect system integration, configuration, and automation into a seamless value chain – from the first customer contact through to the finished machine system.
Design Automation for Rapid Product Development
Optimize your design process with Design Automation and CAD automation. Product rules automatically generate 3D CAD models, 2D drawings, and bills of materials. This accelerates engineering processes, reduces errors, and significantly decreases routine engineering tasks.
Product Configuration for Individual Customer Solutions
Master product variety with a product configurator and CPQ system. Using rule-based variant configuration and guided selling, sales teams, partners, and customers create technically valid product variants, quotes, and configuration data – directly integrated into CAD and ERP systems.
System Integration for a Seamless Corporate IT Landscape
Connect your IT systems into a continuous data chain. Through system integration in mechanical engineering, CAD, ERP, CRM, and PDM/PLM systems are seamlessly linked. This creates a consistent digital thread along the entire product lifecycle.
Process Automation for Seamless Digital Workflows in Mechanical Engineering
Workflow and process automation connects engineering systems into seamless digital workflows. Automated workflows handle recurring tasks, reduce manual steps, and ensure consistent data between CAD, PDM, ERP, and CRM.
Simplified 3D CAD Models for Fast, Reliable Processes
Reduce complex assemblies with CAD model simplification and data reduction. Lightweight models improve the performance of CAD systems and enable the use of models for simulation, VR/AR, or web visualization.
3D Layout Planning for Modern, Impressive Plant Layouts
Plan entire plants with 3D layout planning and digital factory planning. With CAD-based 3D plant planning, you can create layouts, detect collisions early, and validate projects faster.
Together, we analyze your existing workflows and identify concrete potential for more efficient, digital processes – practical, structured, and with a clear focus on measurable value.
- Analysis of your engineering and sales processes
- Identification of optimization potential
- Clear roadmap for your digital transformation
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Frequently Asked Questions
The FAQs answer questions about the pumps and compressors industry in the context of the Lino portfolio.
Find answers about technical sizing, rule-based configuration, and automated engineering of pumps and compressors. Learn how Tacton CPQ calculates operating points, technically validates product series, and automatically assigns housing materials and shaft seals – and how Tacton Design Automation generates a quotation-ready 3D model with manufacturing drawing, bill of materials, and exploded view in under ten minutes, without engineering queries from sales.
How does Lino Hub seamlessly connect the pump configurator with CAD, PDM, and ERP?
Lino Hub serves as the central data backbone between Tacton CPQ, Tacton Design Automation, the CAD system, the PDM/PLM system, and the ERP. After configuration is completed and the model is automatically generated, Lino Hub transfers the complete bill of materials – pump housing, impeller, shaft seal, drive, standard parts, and purchased components – automatically to the ERP, validates part number consistency, and triggers the production order directly if required. Manual data transfers between systems are completely eliminated, errors in material ordering are systematically prevented, and the lead time from confirmed order to production start is significantly reduced.
How does Lino measurably accelerate the entire quotation process for pumps and compressors?
The combination of Tacton CPQ for technical sizing and configuration, Tacton Design Automation for 3D model generation, and Lino Hub for system integration demonstrably reduces the quotation cycle for pumps and compressors by up to 70%. Engineering queries from sales decrease by at least 35%, because the technical sizing logic is fully embedded in the CPQ system. Pump manufacturers report that up to 12 technically complete quotations can be generated per day – including 3D model, bill of materials, dimensional drawing, and price calculation – compared to two to three quotations per day with manual processes.
How does Lino Simplify protect the engineering know-how of pump manufacturers when sharing 3D models?
Pumps contain sensitive engineering know-how in impeller geometries, clearance dimensions, and housing internal contours. When customers require a 3D model for integration into their own system planning, Lino Simplify automatically creates a simplified envelope geometry: a geometrically accurate outer contour with all connection and installation dimensions, but without internal design details and manufacturing geometries. The STEP export is generated automatically from the configuration result. The customer receives planning-relevant data for their digital factory, while the manufacturer reliably protects their intellectual property – without manual effort for model preparation.
How does Lino automatically generate exploded views and spare parts lists for configured pump variants?
Based on the 3D model generated by Tacton Design Automation, Lino Automate fully automatically creates the associated exploded view with numbered individual parts, as well as the spare parts list with part numbers and quantities. In parallel, the technical data sheet with the pump characteristic curve is populated from the sizing data in the CPQ system. All documents are versioned and stored in the PDM/PLM system via Lino Hub, linked to the respective machine bill of materials – complete, always accessible service documentation without manual creation effort.
How does Tacton Design Automation automate the engineering of customer-specific pump variants?
Once a pump is configured in the CPQ system, Lino Hub transfers the configuration parameters to Tacton Design Automation. Design Automation then fully automatically generates the parametric 3D CAD model: pump housing in the configured material specification, impeller in the selected geometry, shaft seal, connections with installation dimensions, and all auxiliary components. Special requirements such as non-standard connection dimensions, special sealing materials, or explosion-proof designs are stored as rule sets and generated equally automatically – what previously required two to three days of manual engineering work is completed in minutes.
How does Tacton CPQ integrate the hydraulic sizing of centrifugal pumps into the configuration process?
Tacton CPQ can execute sizing calculations directly as part of the configuration process. Sales staff enter the conveying medium, flow rate, head, and operating temperature. The system automatically calculates the operating point on the pump characteristic curve, checks the NPSH value against system conditions, and suggests the technically appropriate product series. On this basis, Tacton CPQ assigns housing material, impeller geometry, shaft seal type, and drive size using rule-based logic – generating a complete, technically validated quotation in under ten minutes, without queries to engineering.