Engineer to Order

The complexity and variability of engineered-to-order (ETO) equipment in the Energy & Utilities industry is increasing. Our solution supports the entire lifecycle from planning and engineering through manufacturing to execution and field service.

Our solution helps Equipment Manufacturers and EPCs get to market faster with improved quality. It also empowers engineering to deliver customer solutions with great accuracy while maximizing knowledge re-use and enables sales to respond faster to customer requests while adhering to cost and schedule.

The complexity and variability of engineered-to-order (ETO) equipment in the Energy & Utilities industry is increasing. Our solution supports the entire lifecycle from planning and engineering through manufacturing to execution and field service.

Our solution helps Equipment Manufacturers and EPCs get to market faster with improved quality. It also empowers engineering to deliver customer solutions with great accuracy while maximizing knowledge re-use and enables sales to respond faster to customer requests while adhering to cost and schedule.

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The use of complex ETO equipment in the Energy & Utilities industry continues to increase. New greenfield capital projects are incorporating innovative designs and specialty equipment to drive operational efficiencies. Existing brownfield operations are being retrofitted to extend service life as owner-operators defer capital spending initiatives. Managing to the constraints of new and retrofit projects often require custom solutions that cater more to the ETO business model.

Our solution provides a configuration backbone to support the entire lifecycle from planning and engineering through manufacturing, execution and field service. It provides robust capabilities to support Equipment Manufacturers and EPCs across the spectrum of configured products and equipment:

  • That have equipment lines with standard models with defined sets of supported variants
  • That deliver complex configure to order equipment with an exponential number of possible variations and combinations,
  • That have highly complex and engineered to order equipment that require new variants of parts and designs with every order.

Solution capabilities

Explore the key areas of this solution.

Bill of Materials Management

Manage a single multi-disciplinary BOM from the equipment’s concept through its end of life all while maintaining full change control and revision history.

Change Management

Effectively manage the evolution of your products, issues, and improvements, while also implementing change quickly, accurately, and comprehensively to better respond to customer needs.

Engineering Automation

Reduce design time by encapsulating your engineering rules into custom applications enabling your engineering team to concentrate more heavily on developing new product innovations.

ERP Connector

Leverage out-of-the-box support for SAP integration that allows flexibility in what variant information is sent to ERP.

ETO Application Integrations

Develop in-depth, robust integrations to applications you use every day. Continue to work in familiar CAD, Microsoft Office®, and PLM applications.

Guided Product Configuration

Leverage the single definition of variability to ensure that any user, regardless of role or domain, works only with valid configurations. Guided product configuration limits the features and choices that you can make so that you only see choices that are allowed. This ensures every stakeholder is focused on the products you plan to bring to market.

PLM Foundation

Respond quickly to change, manage, and coordinate the complete equipment lifecycle from contact award to multi-site deployments and service.

Product Line Engineering

Enable a single definition of variability across domains and the equipment lifecycle to deliver the variety your customers demand while driving profitability.

Rules Management (Modularity and Reuse)

Leverage robust 3D real-time visualization capabilities to provide accurate geometry, on demand, for any valid configuration. Visualize and validate throughout the process, helping to catch errors early in the process.