A decade of engineering-to-order (2010–2020): Progress and emerging themes

Cannas, Violetta Giada; Gosling, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108274

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“…The results indicate stronger need on capturing and modelling design knowledge (Wang and Duffy, 2007), design reasoning patterns (Mämmelä et al, 2020), design decision sequences (Halonen et al, 2014), and design reasoning paths (Pakkanen et al, 2021). Cannas and Gosling defined the 'new product development improvement' for managing engineering and manufacturing in ETO context (Cannas and Gosling, 2021;Gosling and Naim, 2009). This can be now extended to study how practitioners use many information sources and knowledge assets (if available) when reaching for artefact synthesis within the project delivery without NPD.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Alfnes et al studied systemic factors creating uncertainty in complex engineer-to-order supply chains (Alfnes et al, 2021). The lack of ETO context in supply chain research agenda in identified (Gosling and Naim, 2009a) and later Cannas et al identify three major emerging themes in this field; 1) ETO definitions through conceptualisation of the engineering flows 2) strategies for decoupling positioning, design automation and engineering management in ETO situations; 3) applicability of lean within ETO situations (Cannas and Gosling, 2021). Willner et al propose four distinct archetypes of ETO (complex, basic, repeatable, and noncompetitive).…”

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HVLV Engineering With Module System(s), Eto and Lean Design – Study on Practitioner Information Needs

Juuti,

Heikkinen,

Heino

et al. 2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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This research elaborates the engineering design of high value low volume (HVLV) artefacts (aka Capital goods, investment goods). Our goal is to describe what information needs the practitioners have when doing sales engineering and engineering in HVLV projects. The research approach uses Design Research Methodology with four company cases.Our findings are that engineering design of HVLV artefacts reuses several module systems, module libraries, technology catalogues, engineering-to-order and variety of design support systems, configurators, design guidelines, parametric models and lean-based design reasoning patterns etc. This poses major challenges for the engineers; how to use all relevant information and how to find it from different IT-systems.This study indicates that in HVLV context such engineering strategy is required, which guides and drives tactical and operational engineering decisions not only within a project delivery but across project deliveries. Operative and tactical engineering is done during the delivery project and value capture is not achieved in full potential if the engineering strategy is neglected or overruled. This is challenge for current modularisation and ETO-methods and tools.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: State Of the Artmentioning

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HVLV Engineering With Module System(s), Eto and Lean Design – Study on Practitioner Information Needs

Juuti,

Heikkinen,

Heino

et al. 2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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“…ETO supply chain research emerged in the 1980s but is now becoming a coherent body of knowledge for those interested in managing highly customized engineering solutions (Cannas and Gosling 2021). Bertrand and Muntslag (1993) categorized the supply chain into four groups: Make-to-Stock, Assemble-to-Order, Make-to-Order, and ETO supply chains.…”

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“…The reason to place our focus on SD and CT is that, while there have been more general ETO supply chain literature reviews (Gosling and Naim 2009;Cannas and Gosling 2021), there has been no review conducted focused on those specific methods. After preliminary research, we found those systems-based approaches are widely used in both fields, hence potentially providing a bridge for knowledge sharing between Project Management (PM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM).…”

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“…However, the adoption of quantitative methods in ETO sectors is relatively small in comparison to qualitative approaches (Giada and Gosling 2021), with less research in ETO system dynamics analysis. However, due to the strong connection between ETO with project management (Cannas and Gosling 2021), Models adopted in the project management context unfold some ETO systems' dynamic properties. However, due to the un-unified terminology and the boundary between supply chain and project management, these models have not been fully reviewed and assessed from the ETO supply chain perspective.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The System Dynamics of Engineer-to-Order Construction Projects: Past, Present, and Future

Zhou

Wang

Gosling

et al. 2023

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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System Dynamics (SD) applications in high volume production operations is ubiquitous, helping to define decision rules to reduce costs associated with the variance in planning orders and inventory. The exploitation of SD in engineer-to-order (ETO) project-oriented supply chains, e.g., in construction, shipbuilding, and capital goods, is less well established. Hence, this research reviews papers which take a systematic ETO perspective modelling construction project, exploiting SD approaches. To comprehensively identify and filter previously published papers, we use a keyword searching method using Web of Science and Scopus databases. After applying relevant exclusion criteria, 145 papers are finally selected. While there have been previous reviews of ETO literature more generally, this paper contributes to the body of knowledge by specifically reviewing SD applications in ETO industries and providing insights by creating a categorization system by which to determine where existing gaps reside. Papers are categorized into the classic four phases of a project: aggregated planning, pre-project planning, project execution, and post-delivery phase. Analyses of the methods, attributes and applications of SD are undertaken for each phase. Findings indicate that SD research covers the range of ETO industries of which construction is the most dominant, demonstrating SD's high applicability. The wealth of case-orientated research in the construction field provides a solid foundation for further SD studies in the ETO field. Further research should focus on 1) developing a general ETO archetype used for performance benchmarking and strategy development in construction projects, 2) introducing analytical tools, such as control theoretic approaches as found in manufacturing production planning and control design, to improve understanding of the ETO systems' dynamic behaviors, and 3) developing cross-phase, cross-project, design production integrated, aggregated planning models via hybrid techniques modelling, which can contribute to a better understanding of an ETO system's performance.

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