Obelus — configurator platform

3D product configurators for material handling.

Obelus is our configurator platform. A salesperson drives it in the meeting — add a bay, change a beam, swap the decking — and the layout, dimensions and component list update while the customer is still at the table. Built for material handling manufacturers and fabricators, under their brand, on their validated product rules.

The selective rack module. Ninety seconds, no sound needed.
◇ Modules
Two live, three in the pipeline

Modules

Operational
Selective pallet rack

Multi-run layouts, free placement, plan view, material list.

Obelus selective pallet rack module — 3D multi-run layout with plan view and material list
Operational
Partition & guarding

Wire mesh partitions, security cages and machine guarding on a panel module.

Obelus partition and guarding module — wire mesh panel configuration in 3D
In development
Cantilever rack
In development
Push-back & drive-in
Planned
Mezzanines & platforms

Every module runs on the same platform — one interface, one output format, one place for a sales team to work.

◇ Output
Fig. 01 — Flow rack, gravity lanes

What every module produces

01A 3D layout the customer can react to during the meeting
02Dimensional summaries — envelopes, elevations, clearances
03A component list quantified from the configuration and printable
◇ Limits
By design

What it doesn’t

Load capacity ratings, seismic calculations, or stamped drawings
A quote or a price
A substitute for engineering review where the building code requires it

Where stamped engineering or a PSR is required, we coordinate the licensed professional who provides it.

◇ Get started
Fig. 03 — Wire partition enclosure

See it live, on your product.

Twenty minutes on a screenshare. I’ll show you the tool running, and tell you straight whether your product family is a fit.

For warehouse operators

Looking at racking for your own facility? Vendor-neutral layout and capacity review, with nothing to sell you.

Sides & Benson Consultants

AI workflow consulting for material handling businesses — racking dealers, installers, and distributors across Ontario. Twenty years on the floor, applied to the paperwork.

Fixed fee You own the build
Contact
ryan@sidesandbenson.ca Book a Workflow Audit Wasaga Beach, Ontario Serving Ontario
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