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How HVAC Manufacturers Cut Lead Times by 50%

Executive Summary Cut HVAC Lead Times by 50% Without Sacrificing Customization or Profitability.
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Cutting the Cost of Customization in HVAC

Executive Summary If your HVAC business is based on Engineering-to-Order (ETO), you’re constantly designing and validating custom solutions. That level of customization sounds great—until you realize ...
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Four approaches to reduce order engineering for customized products

Companies working with customized products that are engineered-to-order are typically project-oriented – each customer order is seen as a project and the engineering time is seen as a part of the dire...
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The Hidden Cost of Complexity in Residential HVAC

Executive Summary Manufacturers of residential HVAC products don’t always realize they’re trapped in a complexity spiral. Expanding product variety seems necessary to meet customer demands—but behind ...
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Upgrading the Configurator in your Current CPQ Solution

In my colleague’s recent post about the components of a CPQ system, a CPQ system was defined to include at least five fundamental modules: A front-end, a configurator, a visualization solution, a pric...
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Boost Efficiency: Shift from Engineer-to-Order to Configure-to-Order

For the last 15 years I have mainly worked with project-focused companies producing large products, engineered to order. It has been in industries ranging from marine applications, packaging lines, pr...
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The Components of a Successful CPQ System

In the rapidly evolving landscape of 21st-century sales, businesses worldwide are catering to the individual needs and preferences of their customers like never before using mass customization and pro...
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Optimizing Test and Verification Costs with Modularity

With the blog What is the Cost of Developing, Maintaining, and Deploying a Software Architecture? we started to unravel main cost distribution areas in software development, and in Cost-Efficiency Unl...
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