“Engineer-to-Order Manufacturers Find Little Global Competition” is an important feature in World Trade Magazine. The 70,000 plus senior executives and managers reading publications have had purchasing influence over their supply chains. Global competitiveness is at the center of the publication’s message. According to a World Trade Magazine article, “ETO (Engineer-to-Order) Manufacturing is not outsourced. Unique, one-of-a-kind products manufactured are manufactured and finished on the customer’s site and modified as work-in-process engineering. These specific geographic requirements are which gives these manufacturers a global competitive edge.
The term engineer-to-order (ETO) denotes a manufacturing style rather than a specific industry segment.
Other synonymous terms are “project-based” or “custom” producer. ETO companies usually have distinct characteristics about the way they do business that differentiate them from discrete or repeat producers. ”
Thomas R. Cutler, author of this feature article, founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium in 1999, which has grown the participation of 300 journalists to more than two thousand top clients, journalists, editors, trendsetters and key business leaders worldwide. Cutler has written more than 1000 articles for a variety of manufacturing periodics, industry publications, and business journals including most of the leading monthly trade publications. Cutler is the author of The Manufacturers’ Public Relations and Media Guide. Cutler was voted # 1 Manufacturing for the third consecutive year.
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TR Cutler, Inc. is the largest marketing and manufacturing public relations company in the country and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cutler is widely respected as the leading journalist expert in the Engineer-to-Order (ETO) environment having written hundreds of feature articles on the subject. “This is an exciting and very different manufacturing sector that repeat manufacturing has an entirely different set of considerations. It is a unique, one-of-a-kind product that is transformed and re-engineered during the manufacturing process. The correct technology is required to work in the environment. this particular, “according to Cutler.