Engineering Documentation Control / Configuration Management Standards Manual

Chapter 47Users Guide/CM Plan

Purpose

• To summarize the standard practices to be used in Engineering Documentation Control (EDC) / Configuration Management (CM), for training company people and to give to auditors, agencies, customers and suppliers.
• These standard practices cover the four major CM processes: Document & Release, BOM, Request, and Change.

Applicability

• All product design documentation processed by or affecting this CM function.

Introduction

• This system can and should be edited to suit your company environment, organization and terminology.
• This system is totally integrated, comprehensive, separated into unique standards for each single subject and has many notes to encourage editing for your unique operations.
• These concepts have helped companies to drastically reduce their process time and errors. Three workdays to release and five to six workdays average to change (with the ability to hand-carry in one half day) through the Doc Control part of the process.
• One person is designated as the CM manager. That person would, among other duties, oversee the editing of the Standards Manual in order to assure best currently attainable processes.
• These standards should be compatible with any ERP, PDM, CAD, etc., system but care should be taken to edit to fit with those systems’ use and terminology.
• This summary document should be created after implementation of those standards which can be readily implemented with the current situation at your company. It should be ...