Configuration Management for Senior Managers: Essential Product Configuration and Lifecycle Management for Manufacturing

✍ Scribed by Frank B. Watts

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 168
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Configuration Management for Senior Managers is written to help managers in product manufacturing and engineering environments identify the ways in which they can streamline their products and processes through proactive documentation control and product lifecycle management.

Experienced consultant Frank Watts gives a practitioner’s view tailored to the needs of management, without the textbook theory that can be hard to translate into real-world change. Unlike competing books that focus on CM within software and IT environments, this engineering-focused resource is packed with examples and lessons learned from leading product development and manufacturing companies, making it easy to apply the approach to your business.

• Developed to help you identify key policies and practices needing attention in your organization to establish and maintain consistency of processes and products, and to reduce operational costs
• Focused on configuration management (CM) within manufacturing and engineering settings, with relevant examples from leading companies
• Written by an experienced consultant and practitioner with the knowledge to provide real-world insights and solutions, not just textbook theory

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of Figures, Pages xi-xii
Preface, Pages xiii-xv
Policies and Critical Practices, Pages xvii-xxii
Chapter One - Introduction, Pages 1-4
Chapter Two - Why CM, Pages 5-8
Chapter Three - CM System, Where to Start, Pages 9-21
Chapter Four - CM and Software, Pages 23-27
Chapter Five - Standard Foundation Blocks, Pages 29-47
Chapter Six - Signatures on CM Documents, Pages 49-54
Chapter Seven - Process Improvement, Pages 55-65
Chapter Eight - Release Process, Pages 67-86
Chapter Nine - Bill of Material Process, Pages 87-102
Chapter Ten - Request for Change Process, Pages 103-113
Chapter Eleven - Change Cost/Payback, Pages 115-121
Chapter Twelve - Change Management, Pages 123-148
Chapter Thirteen - Field Change Process, Pages 149-155
Chapter Fourteen - Take It to the Bank, Pages 157-159
Index, Pages 161-163