45 Product Configurators: Making Engineered Products Easier to Specify

Buying an en­gi­neered steel product used to go like this. You send an email de­scrib­ing what you think you need. Someone replies with questions. You find the answers, a quote arrives, you realise the drawer heights are wrong, and the cycle starts again. Two weeks later you're about where you started.

In August 2026, OPIE Man­u­fac­tur­ing Group launched a different approach: 45 online product con­fig­u­ra­tors across seven brands. AMTIL CEO Lorraine Maxwell made the virtual "first click" during her visit to our Emu Heights factory. You can read about the launch here.

The problem with "just send us a quote"

Most delays in buying fab­ri­cat­ed products don't come from man­u­fac­tur­ing. They come from spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Di­men­sions, load ratings, finishes, ac­ces­sories and com­pli­ance re­quire­ments all need agreeing before a single sheet is cut, and each round of clar­i­fi­ca­tion costs days.

A good con­fig­u­ra­tor removes most of that back-and-forth by putting the real options in front of the person who knows the job.

What we launched

The 45 con­fig­u­ra­tors are spread across the group:

• Boscotek: 9 con­fig­u­ra­tors covering work­bench­es, high-density drawer cabinets and mobile storage
• Bosco: 9
• Lectrum: 8
• OPIE Hub: 7
• Argent: 6, covering the 10, 25, 40 and 50 Series racks, the V50 Data Vault and the Com­mer­cial Data Cage
• WeaponsS: 5
• Gilkon: ceramic steel white­board layout and product selection

How a con­fig­u­ra­tor works

Real options, real con­straints

Each con­fig­u­ra­tor is built from the actual product range, so you can only choose what we can make. Pick a Boscotek workbench width and you'll see the matching drawer cabinets. Choose an Argent rack height and only com­pat­i­ble depths and ac­ces­sories appear. That's the dif­fer­ence between a con­fig­u­ra­tor and a brochure: it knows the en­gi­neer­ing rules.

Pricing and documents

Depending on the brand, the con­fig­u­ra­tor shows live pricing as you build and produces a PDF quote. The con­fig­u­ra­tors for Boscotek, Bosco, Lectrum and Gilkon also provide BIM files for ar­chi­tects and designers working in Revit or similar tools: configure it and download the BIM file at opieiq.com.

Who it's for

• Fa­cil­i­ties and workshop managers who know exactly what their team needs and don't want to explain it three times.
• Ar­chi­tects and spec­i­fiers who need accurate di­men­sions and model data early in design. Our new Ar­chi­tec­tur­al Manager, Denis Xiao, supports this group directly.
• Pro­cure­ment teams comparing options against a budget. Live pricing makes it easier to trade off features before going to approval.
• Dis­trib­u­tors and in­te­gra­tors who quote OPIE products to their own customers.

What con­fig­u­ra­tors don't replace

Con­fig­u­ra­tors handle standard and semi-custom products well. They don't replace en­gi­neer­ing con­ver­sa­tions for genuinely custom work: an SCEC Class B rack with 18 cable entries, a security shroud for a cor­rec­tion­al facility or a stainless fixture made to unusual di­men­sions. For those, our engineers will still sit down with you, and with every­thing under one roof at Emu Heights they can usually turn a custom design around quickly.

Con­fig­u­ra­tors also don't change how products are made. Every con­fig­ured item is still laser cut, folded, welded, powder coated and assembled by our team in Western Sydney, under the same ISO 9001 quality system.

Try one

The fastest way to un­der­stand the con­fig­u­ra­tors is to build something. Start in the OPIE con­fig­u­ra­tor and choose a brand: Boscotek work­bench­es and storage, Bosco office storage, Lectrum lecterns, Argent racks or Gilkon ceramic steel white­boards. Or browse the OPIE store.

SMC Stainless doesn't use a con­fig­u­ra­tor: each SMC product page has a datasheet and DWG drawing to download and a quote request (SMC store).

Fre­quent­ly asked questions

Are con­fig­ured products made to order? Yes. A con­fig­ured product is man­u­fac­tured to your spec­i­fi­ca­tion at our Emu Heights facility, using the same laser cutting, folding, welding, powder coating and assembly processes as every­thing else we make.

Can I change my mind after I download a quote? Yes. Save or rebuild your con­fig­u­ra­tion and generate a new quote. Nothing goes into pro­duc­tion until an order is confirmed.

What if my project needs something slightly different? Configure the closest standard option and tell us what's different. Our engineers can usually adapt a standard design faster than starting from scratch, because the design rules and tooling already exist.

Do con­fig­u­ra­tors replace your sales team? No. They handle the routine work so our team can spend time on the projects that need an engineer's input.

Specify. Don't settle. And if what you need isn't in a con­fig­u­ra­tor yet, tell us. That's usually how the next one gets built.