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Configuration Management for Senior Managers Summary

Configuration Management for Senior Managers: Essential Product Configuration and Lifecycle Management for Manufacturing by Frank B. Watts (NDIA Certified Configuration and Data Manager, of several magazine articles and of the Engineering Documentation Control Handbook and CM Metrics.)

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.

About Frank B. Watts (NDIA Certified Configuration and Data Manager, of several magazine articles and of the Engineering Documentation Control Handbook and CM Metrics.)

Frank Watts has over forty-eight years of industrial and consultation experience as a design engineer, industrial engineer, manufacturing engineer, systems analyst, project manager, and in management. He founded his own specialist configuration management company to provide specific expertise in product release, change control, bills of material and other engineering documentation control issues.Formally a director of engineering services, a director of operations and a director of manufacturing engineering, Watts has worked for Caterpillar, Collins Radio, Control Data, Storage Technology, UFE and Archive. He has guided the development of engineering change control processes at numerous companies and made significant contributions towards improving new product release processes, installing MRP/ERP systems and new numbering systems, as well as helping companies attain a single BOM database and guided reengineering of CM processes. He is an NDIA Certified Configuration and Data Manager, author of several magazine articles and author of the Engineering Documentation Control Handbook and CM Metrics.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction2: Why CM3: The CM System - Where to Start4: CM and Software5: Standard Foundation Blocks6: Signatures on CM Documents7: Process Improvement8: Release Process9: Bills of Material Process10: Request for Change Process11: Change Cost and Payback12: Change Management13: Field Change Process14: Take It to the Bank

Additional information

NLS9780128023822
9780128023822
0128023821
Configuration Management for Senior Managers: Essential Product Configuration and Lifecycle Management for Manufacturing by Frank B. Watts (NDIA Certified Configuration and Data Manager, of several magazine articles and of the Engineering Documentation Control Handbook and CM Metrics.)
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2015-04-24
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