From one-off to series production: increasing efficiency through configuration management
How to make the transition from Engineer-to-Order to Configure-to-Order+ a success, and why configuration management is the decisive competitive advantage in mechanical and plant engineering.How to make the transition from Engineer-to-Order to Configure-to-Order+ a success, and why configuration management is the decisive competitive advantage in mechanical and plant engineering.
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Tailored products, tight delivery deadlines, rising costs: the pressure on manufacturing companies is growing. Anyone still relying exclusively on the engineer-to-order approach today risks excessive development costs, long lead times and dangerous design errors.
Our new whitepaper shows how strategic configuration management enables the move to a scalable, efficient configure-to-order+ model (CTO+), without giving up the individuality you need.
What to expect
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ETO vs. CTO+: opportunities, risks and the decisive paradigm shift in production
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The configuration unit: what it is, how it works and why it is the heart of modern product data management
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Lifecycle management: how configuration management takes effect from development through production to maintenance and sales
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From configuration unit to sales unit: how technical product definition and commercial sales strategy work together
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Practical examples: real successes from machinery and plant engineering, with concrete key figures
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Implementation roadmap: best practices and success factors for your rollout
Your benefits at a glance
🔧 Cut costs
Less one-off effort per project through standardisation and reuse of configuration units.
⚡ Deliver faster
Shorter lead times through reduced concept risk and standardised development processes.
🎯 Secure quality
Systematic change and baseline management secures product quality across the entire lifecycle.
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