Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing in World Trade Magazine

Thomas R. Cutler, who founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium
in 1999, has grown the participation from 300 journalists to
more than two thousand key clients, journalists, editors,
trendsetters, and key business leaders worldwide. Cutler has
authored more than 1000 articles for a wide range of
manufacturing periodicals, industrial 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
Journalist for the third year in a row. 

World Trade Magazine features Cutler's latest article
"Engineer-to-Order Manufacturers Find Little Global Competition"
which can be found at (www.trcutlerinc.com). According to the
article, "ETO (Engineer-to-Order) manufacturing cannot be
outsourced. The unique one-of-a-kind products manufactured are
produced and completed in the customer's site and are modified
as an engineered work-in-progress. It is this specific
geographic requirement that provides these manufacturers a
global competitive advantage. The term engineer-to-order (ETO)
denotes a style of manufacturing rather than a specific industry
segment. Other synonymous terms are "project-based" or "custom"
manufacturers. ETO companies typically have distinct
characteristics about the way they conduct business that
differentiate them from discrete or repetitive manufacturers."

 TR Cutler, Inc. is the nation's largest manufacturing marketing
and public relations firm and based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Cutler is widely respected as the leading journalist expert in
the Engineer-to-Order (ETO) environment having authored hundreds
of feature articles on the subject. "It's a fascinating sector
of manufacturing and quite different that repetitive
manufacturing that has a totally different series of
considerations. These are unique one-of-a-kind products that are
changed and re-engineered throughout the manufacturing process.
Correct technologies are required to work in this special
environment," according to Cutler.

TR Cutler, Inc. www.trcutlerinc.com Thomas Cutler 954-486-7562