Engineering Documentation Control Handbook. Configuration Management in Industry

✍ Scribed by Frank B. Watts (Auth.)

• Publisher: William Andrew
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Control of engineering documentation, sometimes called Configuration Management (CM) especially in the defense industries, remains critical to world-class manufacturing survival. The 3rd edition of this popular engineering documentation handbook improves upon one of the best blueprints for efficient EDC/CM ever published, and continues to provide a significant company strategy for managers, project leaders, chief engineers and others. It can be used in many industries to improve the control of engineering documentation.

Use the Engineering Documentation Control Handbook to get on track right away and make the release of new products and their documentation flow smoothly and easily. The book is packed with specific methods that can be applied quickly and accurately to almost any industry and any product to control documentation, request changes to the product, make those changes and develop bills of material. The result is a powerful communications bridge between engineering and ''the rest of the world'' that makes rapid changes in products and documentation possible. With the help of the simple techniques in the handbook, companies can gain and hold their competitive advantages in a world that demands flexibility and quick reflexes -- and has no sympathy for delays.

The new edition takes the improvements of the second to a whole new level, with more chapters and even more additions. As always, the thrust of the book retains a focus on basics, rules and reasons. The author emphasizes that EDC or CM must be recognized as a key business strategy, and the days of ''throwing it over the wall'' are gone forever

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages xv-xix
Chapter 1 - Introduction, Pages 1-20
Chapter 2 - Product Documentation, Pages 21-50
Chapter 3 - Identification Numbers, Pages 51-71
Chapter 4 - Interchangeability, Pages 73-91
Chapter 5 - Bill of Material, Pages 93-133
Chapter 6 - Potpourri, Pages 135-165
Chapter 7 - Product and Document Release, Pages 167-190
Chapter 8 - Change Requests, Pages 191-201
Chapter 9 - Change Cost, Pages 203-212
Chapter 10 - Change Control, Pages 213-260
Chapter 11 - Fast Change, Pages 261-272
Chapter 12 - Implementing Process Improvement, Pages 273-301
Chapter 13 - Process Standards and Audits, Pages 303-320
Chapter 14 - EDC and the Supply Chain, Pages 321-328
Chapter 15 - Benchmarking, Pages 329-339
Chapter 16 - CM in the Future/Summary, Pages 341-348
Reference and Reading List, Page 349
Index, Pages 351-363
Related Titles, Pages 365-367