setsuban kanri (節番管理) is the name of a production management methodology for make-to-order business companies. more specifically, it indicates a "management system by synchronized process blocks" which had been originally set and implemented as a management model for the control of the manufacturing progress with makers whose products were very much tailored upon the requests of their customers. it is specific to organizations where the production model is one of the following: dto ("design-to-order"), eto ("engineer-to-order"), ato ("assembly-to-order") or mto ("make-to-order").