An insulating and architectural glass manufacturer needed its product rules to survive every handoff from quotation to production. Costel developed the platform from a desktop application into a web system, dealer workflow and later rebuild.
Architectural glass pricing depends on far more than width and height: glass types, treatments, grinding, drilling, cut-outs, structural parts, accessories, dimensional limits and customer-specific prices all interact.
Some choices make later options mandatory; others make them impossible. Before those rules lived in software, every quote depended on specialist knowledge and every manual selection created another chance for error.
The first Visual Basic application centralized insulating-glass orders on one computer. Three years later, a PHP and MySQL web platform made the same information available across production, administration, sales and management.
When the company expanded into architectural glass, Costel added a rule-driven configurator. A user enters dimensions, and the platform filters compatible materials, operations and accessories while applying processing costs, discounts and negotiated prices.
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Dealers could prepare quotations and turn accepted offers into production orders without the factory entering the product configuration again. Prices, technical drawings and manufacturing outputs came from the same set of rules.
The project history spans a Visual Basic application, a PHP and MySQL web platform and a 2026 Laravel and Vue.js rebuild. The continuity was in the configuration and business workflow carried through those changes.
For an owner, the valuable asset includes the product rules embedded in the system. A rebuild or acquisition handover should explain how those rules connect pricing, accounting and machinery. The next team needs that knowledge to make changes without forcing the factory to reconstruct it.
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Editorial review: Ego Eimi · Updated September 6, 2026 · About the team
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