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The Engineer-To-Order business, which encompasses companies producing a broad range of capital goods, is becoming increasingly complex. In order to improve their profitability, engineering organizations in this business use standardization programs. While decomposition aspects in such programs are already in an advanced state, the integration of components, modules or subsystems into a customer-specific...
The word engineering is used in various contexts and for a broad range of disciplines. But there is no common understanding for engineering disciplines. It is not clear which disciplines exist, the scope of disciplines is not defined, and there is no common naming conventions for engineering disciplines. This paper shall promote the common understanding of engineering by an investigation on the diversity...
The companies active in international project business are faced with the optimization task how the different phases in the technical value chain can most efficiently be shared between headquarter and local country organizations. Many regionalization cases the authors have examined have critical issues in domains such as internal setup, strategy, risk assessment, or know-how transfer. Therefore, in...
In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
Regionalization of software and hardware engineering in international project business is a key driver for the success of multinational companies. These companies usually act as prime contractors and therefore have to execute large engineering projects across several countries. This requires a shift of the whole or at least a portion of their engineering value chain to a foreign country (regionalization)...
International project business is often characterized by the fact that the contracting company is working in many countries. The company's strategic intentions and the often-noticed customer requirement to increase local content are the basis for efficiently sharing different elements of the technical value chain between headquarters and organizations in the country where the plant or facility has...
Software and hardware engineering in international project business has been subject to regionalization efforts for several years. We describe how such a regionalization is basically organized and performed in a multi-national company, mainly active in project business in various technical domains such as electrical substations, trains or power plants. Main accent is put on experience gathered from...
The plant manufacturing business is characterized by intensifying competition and increasing market requirements. Manufacturers try to increase their competitiveness through the improvement of engineering performance. In order to have a reliable basis for management decisions, engineering performance must be assessed comprehensively. The meaningfulness of such holistic considerations is undisputed,...
To remain competitive, industrial plant manufacturers need to increase their engineering performance. This requires an assessment of engineering performance first. Since engineering is connected in multiple ways to other disciplines, stages in the value-add chain and phases of the plant life cycle such an assessment proved to be difficult. This contribution presents a pragmatic model to systematize...
When it comes to improve the competitive advantage of plant EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) companies, the increase of engineering performance is a permanent challenge. However, economic considerations such as “What is efficient engineering”, “What is engineering performance” or “When is engineering profitable” remain unanswered both in academic discussion and in industrial practice alike,...
In many areas of the German industry exists a shortage of engineers. A challenge is the demanding education and the competences required for engineers, depending on the specialist area. Thereby an increasing importance of soft skills is visible, e.g. in the key qualifications published by the Association of German Engineers (VDI). This paper contributes the understanding of the professional requirements...
The rotational spectra of cyclopentene-2-one-1 in the ground state and the first excited vibrational state of the ring puckering mode ν 30 have been re-measured with improved accuracy in the range from 11-40 GHz. One hundred and eleven and sixty nine rotational transitions with J quantum numbers up to fifty eight and forty eight, respectively, could be assigned. The isotopomer 3-d-cyclopentene-2-one-1...
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