Paper Info
Title
Challenges of system integration in the engineer-to-order business
Abstract
Engineer-to-order (ETO) companies supply complex, highly customized products in low volume. They face an increasing complexity of their business, driving the necessity to ensure a proper interaction of the modules in the overall technical system and/or its life cycle by system integration. Despite its importance and proven benefit, system integration is an often neglected topic in the ETO business. This contribution aims to promote a more intensive discussion on the topic of system integration. Thus, it describes current trends in the ETO business and their implication on integration. It further gives an overview of system integration aspects in the ETO business and outlines current challenges of system integration from a practitioner's perspective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/IECON.2015.7392078
IECON 2015 - 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Keywords
Field
DocType
ETO business,complexity,system integration,system engineering
Systems engineering,Engineering management,Build to order,Control engineering,Software,Engineering,Market research,System integration
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1553-572X
1
0.44
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
L. H. Matthias Foehr1236.62
Michael Gepp263.59
Jan Vollmar3144.72