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Over the last decades several technologies have been developed towards the distributed automation architecture for Smart Factories, however, these technologies have not been yet implemented in industry. Manufacturers are quite conservative in adopting new technologies because the vast majority of existing infrastructures already have constraints in place related to their investment capabilities and...
Companies of the engineer-to-order (ETO) business face various trends such as digitalization and globalization. These trends will radically impact our ways of engineering. The Engineering framework translates Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework [2] to the engineering world. Cynefin for Engineers allows structuring future ways of engineering and guiding ETO companies along their transformation of engineering...
Companies in the Engineer-To-Order business are facing many challenges and thus launching numerous improvement projects, driven from an isolated point of view focusing only on individual improvement potentials. Strategic alignment or a prioritization of these improvement projects therefore poses a great challenge for management. As a result the intended improvement targets often are not achieved and...
Standardization, modularization and platforms (S/M/P) are approaches used by industrial companies to cope with complexity of technical products and systems. Despite a long history in product business S/M/P are considered as a fairly recent idea in engineer-to-order (ETO) business. They are applied with varying degrees of success in this business due to a number of challenges. This contribution describes...
Engineer-to-order (ETO) companies supply complex, highly customized products in low volume. They face an increasing complexity of their business, driving the necessity to ensure a proper interaction of the modules in the overall technical system and/or its life cycle by system integration. Despite its importance and proven benefit, system integration is an often neglected topic in the ETO business...
Flexibility and adaptability are major challenges for modern production systems. To make them applicable integration approaches are required. Within this paper an attempt towards the detailed characterization of integration approaches and integration approach types is made based on a literature survey. It is intended to enable an informed decision for the selection of research directions towards modern...
Flexibility and adaptability are major challenges for modern production systems. To realize them integration approaches are required. Within this paper a literature survey on integration approaches and integration approach types is described based on an attempt towards a detailed characterization of both. It is intended to enable an informed decision for research and development directions towards...
The Engineer-To-Order business encompasses companies producing a broad range of industrial products. Projects in this business are becoming increasingly complex, both from a technical and a management perspective. In this context, standardization programs have become a common approach to improve competitiveness and profitability of ETO companies. Standardization programs have their origin in the product...
Facing the current trends in the lifecycles of products and manufacturing systems flexibility and adaptability are of general interest. To make them applicable integration approaches are required. Within this paper an attempt towards the detailed characterization of integration approaches and integration approach types is made based on a literature survey. It is intended to enable an informed decision...
The Engineer-To-Order business, which encompasses companies producing a broad range of capital goods, is becoming increasingly complex. In order to improve their profitability, engineering organizations in this business use standardization programs. While decomposition aspects in such programs are already in an advanced state, the integration of components, modules or subsystems into a customer-specific...
In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
Industrial enterprises are facing an increasing complexity of their manufactured products. In order to support engineering organizations to increase their profitability, this paper presents major success factors for efficient plant engineering. These factors are based on the analysis of six case studies regarding standardization programs from the plant engineering domain. Subsequently, a function-based...
The critical influence of functional strategies on business success is undisputed, as well as the impact of engineering. Surprisingly, research on functional strategies for engineering organizations is scarce. Purpose: this contribution aims to provide engineering organizations with a guideline for the development and implementation of engineering strategies. Approach: first, a literature review determines...
Introduction: Performance measurement supports engineering organizations to effectively design, implement and control engineering improvement activities. Purpose: This contribution analyzes which performance measurement methods are used in industrial practice. The focus lies on methods used for the evaluation of investments (such as efficiency improvement programs) in engineering departments. Approach:...
Projects in plant manufacturing business are characterized by low margins and high risks. The knowledge and support of success factors, i.e. influencing factors that explain the success of a project, provide a suitable lever for plant manufacturing companies to improve their competitiveness. However, plant manufacturing business has not been a major field of success factor research yet. This contribution...
This contribution presents the results of an empirical study about assessments of performance of engineering departments in the German plant manufacturing industry. Engineering plays a central role in the industrial value chain. However, its multiple impact is not considered in an adequate way by current assessments. For instance, economic considerations have a strong focus on costs and consider the...
The plant manufacturing business is characterized by intensifying competition and increasing market requirements. Manufacturers try to increase their competitiveness through the improvement of engineering performance. In order to have a reliable basis for management decisions, engineering performance must be assessed comprehensively. The meaningfulness of such holistic considerations is undisputed,...
To remain competitive, industrial plant manufacturers need to increase their engineering performance. This requires an assessment of engineering performance first. Since engineering is connected in multiple ways to other disciplines, stages in the value-add chain and phases of the plant life cycle such an assessment proved to be difficult. This contribution presents a pragmatic model to systematize...
When it comes to improve the competitive advantage of plant EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) companies, the increase of engineering performance is a permanent challenge. However, economic considerations such as “What is efficient engineering”, “What is engineering performance” or “When is engineering profitable” remain unanswered both in academic discussion and in industrial practice alike,...
To support modernization of industrial plants, we proposed a component oriented modeling method, based on a central model sustaining domain specific views. Dependency management should allow predictive re-engineering. We formalized the meta-model in a UML profile, and used OCL to express dependencies. We verified these concepts in an industrial case study with the tool suite that has been developed...
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