Comprehensive solutions for engineer-to-order (ETO) process automation
Competition and rapidly changing customer requirements make it increasingly necessary for ETO manufacturers to find better, more efficient ways to tailor products to customer-unique specifications. Rulestream Engineer-to-Order addresses these challenges with a comprehensive solution spanning sales, engineering and manufacturing. By capturing ETO process knowledge and using it to automate key business processes across the enterprise, companies using Rulestream have increased sales win rates while shortening lead times and reducing overall costs. This ability to simultaneously increase revenues and lower operating expenses makes Rulestream a compelling solution for the increasingly competitive ETO market.

Benefits

Increased accuracy

Greater throughput

Shorter lead times

Higher sales win rates

Better margin security

Greater scalability

Better retention of product knowledge

Rulestream continuous improvement loop
The Rulestream solution establishes a continuous improvement loop for engineering standards and product knowledge in order keep ETO systems in step with the ever changing business environment. As such, Rulestream supports Six Sigma and lean principles and provides an effective vehicle for institutionalizing the solutions that result from such quality initiatives.

Define: Capture new or refine existing product knowledge and standards
Deploy: Deploy standards to sales and engineering for immediate or future use
Execute: Execute standards in support of key sales and order engineering deliverables
Improve: Measure quality of standards and synthesize lessons learned

Key Rulestream capabilities for ETO

Single, enterprise-wide repository for engineering standards and product knowledge

Enterprise-class architecture that can scale in terms of users, geography, products and rules

Rich, easy-to-use authoring environment for expressing many different types of product rules, such as functional engineering, design, cost estimating, pricing and process planning.

Deep, bi-directional integrations to CAD, allowing new assemblies and components to be dynamically generated according to your design rules

Bi-directional interfaces to PLM and ERP

Tight integrations to 2D schematic tools (such as Microsoft Corporation’s Visio® software) that allow users to graphically express a logical or physical layout that automatically drives downstream deliverables such as 3D CAD and bills of material

Integration with Microsoft Office® software.

Ability to establish quality metrics for engineering standards and product rules, so your organization can easily understand how effectively those assets are being applied in day-to-day operations, and use that information for continuous improvement.