By
Frank B. Watts, EC3 Corp
Description
Configuration Management (CM) has become a key strategy for successful manufacturing companies. Controlling the design documentation
throughout its lifecycle and knowing what is in the product is imperative for quickly moving a new product to the marketplace, identifying
and making necessary changes as fast as possible. CM is similarly important to efficient, high quality and low cost supply chain and
production processes. It is also critical to maintenance, repair, retrofit, service parts provisioning as well as the elephant in the
room – liability protection. Fast, accurate, efficient, documented, measured and well understood Configuration Management is also critical
to profitability.
Frank Watts'
Configuration Management Metrics gets engineers and managers up and running with Configuration
Management measurement, reporting and benchmarking strategies designed to deliver world-class manufacturing outcomes.
About
the Author
Frank Watts is a consultant with nearly 50 years of industrial and consulting experience. He has founded
his own company to specialize in Configuration Management. Mr. Watts has guided the development of the engineering change control process
at many companies, making significant contributions to improve new product release processes, install MRP/ERP systems and new numbering
systems, and help companies attain a single BOM database, and guide reengineering of the Configuration Management processes. He
is author of three editions of the
Engineering Documentation Control Handbook.
Audience:
Engineering designers and managers; anyone involved in configuration management functions
