I have been involved in the most passionating project I have took part in years. It's challenging everything I knew about product development, the tools I implement, the best practices I have tried to push my customers for years.
There is so much I have learned in the last 6 months, that I have to capitalize somehow. Rebooting that blog sounded the best idea.
My current customers has a Engineering To Order (ETO) business model with very complex products and large products. What does ETO mean?
It means that the product is ordered before it is engineered. A bit like a house you're buying. You know you will have a bathroom, a kitchen, a lobby, a heating system, maybe a garage for one car or two. The architect design its shape, and then you buy it. At this stage nobody knows which part will be used for heating, but you know you will have one.
I would like first to refer to the excellent article from Jos about BOM in ETO and list the topic I would like to discuss in the next posts.
- System Engineering design
- Transition from EBOM to MBOM in complex products
- Work schedule and resource allocation
- Role of configuration
- Design constrains for ETO Businesses
- ...
