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ETO

Product Configuration

Making To-Order Product Configuration Profitable

How can manufacturers take advantage of the benefits of product customization without suffering from decreased profitability? We gathered responses from 234 companies involved with to-order products and interviewed two leading manufacturers to find out how to improve product configuration. Read on or click here to download the full report with no registration required, courtesy of…

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Jim Brown - February 21, 2025 - Filed Under: eBooks, Survey Results, Published Research - Tagged With: Tailored Products, Configurator, Product Configuration, Product Configurator, Design Automation, configurability, Configured Products, ETO, To-Order Products, MTO, Modular Products, Modular Design, Configurator Software, Engineer to Order, CTO, CPQ, Configure to Order, Product Customization

To Order Products

Configuration and To Order Manufacturing – Take Our Survey

How do leading companies manage their “to order” products? Tech-Clarity invites you to join a research study on how manufacturers use configurators to design, bid, and manufacture engineer-to-order (ETO) and configure-to-order (CTO) products. This survey is now closed, please see our active survey page  for more survey opportunities.    

    Jim Brown - October 1, 2024 - Filed Under: Uncategorized - Tagged With: Product Customization, CPQ, Configuration, Assemble to Order, Configurator, Product Configuration, ETO, MTO, Engineer to Order, CTO, To Order, Manufacture to Order, Engineering Configurator, Product Personalization, Technical Configurator

    Bringing Custom-Engineered Products to Market (survey results)

    How can manufacturers most effectively design, develop, and launch custom-engineered products that must be engineered to customer specifications? Tech-Clarity’s eBook, Bringing Custom-Engineered Products to Market, shares survey data from over 200 companies to offer insights and best practices. Please enjoy the summary* below. Click here for the full report, thank you to our sponsor Propel (registration…

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    Jim Brown - July 8, 2020 - Filed Under: Published Research, Survey Results - Tagged With: CRM, Engineer to Order, Configuration Management, Custom Products, Tailored Products, Custom-Engineered Products, PLM, Product Configuration, Mass Customization, Configurator, ETO

    Custom-Engineered / ETO Products (survey invitation)

    How do leading companies bring custom-engineered products to market? For this survey, “custom-engineered products” are defined as those that require engineering in the quote, proposal, and/or fulfillment processes. They include highly variable products that are designed to customer specifications. These products are known by many names, including engineer-to-order (ETO), custom-engineered, custom, specials, design wins, or…

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      Jim Brown - April 28, 2020 - Filed Under: Uncategorized - Tagged With: Configurator, ETO, Engineer to Order, CTO, CPQ, Custom-Engineered Products, Survey, Configuration

      Driving Engineer-to-Order Differentiation and Profitability (survey findings)

      Driving Engineer-to-Order Differentiation and Profitability, Analyzing Trends and Best Practices in Product Configuration shares survey findings and interviews with leading manufacturers showing how Top Performers achieve higher revenue and profit margin growth through ETO best practice processes and technology. The research shares results of a survey of over 200 manufacturers and analyzes their use of…

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      • Survey Results

      Jim Brown - June 2, 2016 - Filed Under: Published Research, Survey Results - Tagged With: Customization, Quote Automation, Top Performers, Margins, Survey, Revenue, Technology, Engineer to Order, Best Practices, CTO, Profitability, Engineering Configurator, Mass Customization, Technical Configurator, Configurator, Sales Configurator, Design Automation, CPQ, ETO, Custom Products

      Optimizing the Bidding Process

      Optimizing the Bidding Process: How Industrial Equipment Manufacturers Can Win More Business focuses on the importance of getting the bidding process right. Bids require a quick response, yet must be competitively priced, without sacrificing margins. Getting this right is a challenge for many companies, but is especially difficult for businesses such as industrial equipment manufacturers offering Engineer-to-Order…

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        Michelle Boucher - March 8, 2016 - Filed Under: Published Research - Tagged With: PLM, rules-based, Case Study, Configuration, Design Automation, ETO, Industrial Equipment, ATO, CTO, Quote, bidding, sales

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