It is a set of software systems, that manage a set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market, which are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way.
Here every manufacturer has long used analogues and engineering techniques to create a product line of the similar products. This product lines is important for development of the paradigm which allows companies to realize the order of the magnitude and improvements in time to market and also to cost, quality, productivity, and also to the other business drivers.
They are also emerging as variable and also enable the rapid market entry, flexible response and also provide a capability for the mass customization, means it has the ability to create many variations of the product. This is the big advantageous for both software as well as for the manufacturing companies. Here the key to the mass customization is to capitalize the commonality and to effective managing of variations in the product line. It is also capable to mass production, create many copies of the same product for example it can create some thousands of manufacturing parts at same time for same product. So it is a big advantage for every manufacturing companies in the world.
It is different form the previous efforts, this is the predictive and also opportunistic software to reuse.