The best practices of engineering regionalization

Abstract

Software and hardware engineering in international project business has been subject to regionalization efforts for several years. We describe how such a regionalization is basically organized and performed in a multi-national company, mainly active in project business in various technical domains such as electrical substations, trains or power plants. Main accent is put on experience gathered from engineering regionalization. Special focus of this contribution is on the regionalization process chosen and on the many challenges involved. It turns out that the regionalization of engineering is a process lasting for a longer time and requiring balance between all participating parties. Best practices gathered so far are presented and further envisioned research steps are shown.