The demand for engineering services for each and every product life cycle solution has increased with prime-edge technologies and processes in engineering field. The danger of collapse from shrinking of profit margins resulted in finding the cost effective solutions together with technical proficiency.
Nowadays engineers are expected to merge automated technologies perfectly into desired commercial models. The need of robust processes in service organisations has gained popularity. High-quality engineering processes and practices are implemented in today’s business.
The engineering process and its salient constituents
An engineering process is a series of interconnected tasks that transforms the given inputs into the desired outputs in a well-organised manner. The constituents needed in the process are:
- The expected process to achieve
- Activities required
- Manpower and their roles to perform various activities
- Desired tools
- Training schedule for the whole process
These key points are interconnected and exclusion of any one of these would hamper the desired productivity, so it is necessary to include all these points in the whole process. For developing a good process, it should be well documented and designed together with the inclusion of stakeholders and the users. Responsibility and accountability should be properly coupled. The tools used in the process should be pertinent and able to accomplish the process effortlessly. Users are well-trained to perform effectively to achieve the desired results.
Engineering organizations today are moving beyond tactical outsourcing and are beginning to see Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO) from a long term and strategic perspective.
Engineering Services and ESO
Engineering Services means any creative service whose performance requires engineering education, training and experience in the use of exact knowledge of mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to work as consultation, planning, designing etc for engineering work and systems. Example: Engineering Analysis, Detail Engineering are related to core Engineering Services.
Engineering Services Outsourcing
Today engineers are integrating IT more effectively to product designing. This is creating magic in the field of engineering. ESO means outsourcing the specific Engineering Services to clients who want to stand strong and survive in the intensely competitive environment.
ESO helps Original Equipment Manufacturers to evolve unconventional low-cost products in less time, designing their economic structure with the minimum resource use maintaining competence.
Importance of Engineering Services Industry
The demand for high quality, cost-effective and faster delivery services are increasing from Equipment Manufacturers in order to compete with their rivals. ESO is helping these manufactures to meet their goals. Complexity grows with the company’s growth and ESO provides obstacle free services to their clients.
In doing so, many challenges are faced by ESOs that are overcome by the introduction of robust processes which in turn results in the continuous and smooth functioning of entire processes.
Engineering Processes forms a framework for profitability and business growth. Scalability and sustainability are achieved by organisations through the engineering industry by standardized and automated processes with effective time management.
Important components of Engineering Processes
Objectives, engineering standards, tools, training and skills, procedures, workflow, criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation.
With the changing customer demand, changes are taking place in engineering processes also to enhance effectiveness, capability, performance and quality and to reduce cost, time, human dependencies and rework. It can be achieved by adopting regular identifying, analysing and improving processes.
We can see that the need and importance of ESO are gaining popularity in this new era among the equipment manufacturers to sustain in the present competitive market maintaining their high standards.
