‘Engineer to order’ companies: how to integrate manufacturing and innovative processes

Caron, Franco; Fiore, Ann Marie

doi:10.1016/0263-7863(95)00023-j

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“…Some authors (Tu 1997;Wortmann, Muntslag, and Timmermans 1997) used the OKP acronym referred to manufacturing companies producing customised products within a product domain. Since such a definition overlaps the ETO companies' characteristics discussed above, in our study, we consider OKP as a characteristic of a product rather than a production strategy, and we use the ETO acronym to refer to companies producing OKPs (Caron and Fiore 1995). As a production strategy, ETO is usually opposed to MP, since product customisation is customarily in conflict with the high efficiency level and the economies of scale pursued in traditional mass manufacturing.…”

Section: Overview On Eto Strategy and Relationship With Mass Productimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Coordination of internal and external processes; high technological knowledge; production planning Caron and Fiore (1995), Amaro et al (1999), Gosling et al (2014) Vertical integration Usually low, companies are independent entities Anderson et al (2000) Production volume Small volume production; Unique products Gelders (1991), Tu (1997), Wikner and Rudberg (2005) Supplier Partnership/contractual Hicks et al (2001) Product customization…”

Section: Production Planning and Control 911mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the different uses of the ETO acronym, sometimes adopted to identify companies that modify existing orders (Porter et al 1999;Wikner and Rudberg Caron and Fiore (1995), Wikner and Rudberg (2005) Competitive advantage…”

Section: Production Planning and Control 911mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engineer-to-order (ETO) production planning and control: an empirical framework for machinery-building companies

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Production Planning & Control

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This paper illustrates the results of an empirical study involving 21 engineer-to-order (ETO) companies, operating in the machinery-building industry. The study investigates the needs and requirements of such companies in terms of software support for governing the businesses, with particular emphasis on production planning and control (PPC) processes. An empirical analysis investigated two main aspects: (i) the set of business activities performed by the companies in the analysed industry and (ii) the relevant, high-level software functionalities required for the execution of such activities. As an answer to the observed compelling need for reviewing the general approaches to PPC in machinery-building companies, we develop an empirical, high-level production planning and scheduling reference framework, encompassing all the activities involved in the order fulfilment process.

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Section: Overview On Eto Strategy and Relationship With Mass Productimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engineer-to-order (ETO) production planning and control: an empirical framework for machinery-building companies

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“…Previous studies considered that an innovative approach to integrate manufacture and logistic with project management is important [10]. ETO sector includes various types of companies, designing, and manufacturing various kinds of products.…”

Section: Project-based Manufacturingmentioning

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Procurement Practices in Project Based Manufacturing Environments

Shah

Hasan

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Procurement is one of the processes that cannot be separated in a business. To be able to run a business, it certainly needs to go through procurement stage that involves purchasing raw materials and services. There are many procurement practices in different kinds of business environment such as manufacturing business and construction business. Competitive strategies application within procurement in this manufacturing is very important in order to win a tender for material procurement required in projects. The paper examines how competitive strategies are applied within procurement practice in project-based manufacturing environment. This research studies in the literature of management in engineering, competitive strategy, procurement integration, and case study that takes a sample from the examples of procurement practice application in large organisation such as that of McDermott. The research aims to conduct a qualitative research method based on the discussion and analysis of literature reviews and case study to build conclusions. The findings suggest business players should have core competencies and develop factors such as superior quality, price advantage, on-time delivery, flexibility, and innovation through technology in order to win the competition.

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“…ETO companies can be defined where the reengineering of the product is done after receiving the order and before the production [6]. Due to the fact that the products are often large and complex systems, where the products are custom designed for each customer, the sales process is much more intensive in ETO companies [5].…”

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Utilizing product configuration systems for supporting the critical parts of the engineering processes

Kristjánsdóttir

Shafiee

Hvam

2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)

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-Engineering-To-Order (ETO) companies have to respond to increasing demands to provide highly customized and complex products with high quality at competitive prices. In order to respond to those challenges ETO companies have started to implement product configuration systems (PCS) to increase efficiency of the specification processes. As a result to complex products and processes in ETO companies, PCS are usually gradually implemented where only subsets of the products are included to support specific processes. However, a systematic way to identify and evaluate the products and the processes to be supported with the PCSs is not described in the current literature. This paper aims to pursue that research opportunity by presenting a framework, which aims to identifying the critical parts of the engineering processes in order to identify where it most beneficial to implement a PCSs and how to prioritize the future PCSs projects.

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‘Engineer to order’ companies: how to integrate manufacturing and innovative processes

Cited by 63 publications

References 7 publications

Engineer-to-order (ETO) production planning and control: an empirical framework for machinery-building companies

Engineer-to-order (ETO) production planning and control: an empirical framework for machinery-building companies

Procurement Practices in Project Based Manufacturing Environments

Utilizing product configuration systems for supporting the critical parts of the engineering processes

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