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<p>Introduction ix</p> <p>Questions and Answers xiii</p> <p><b>Part I Company EDC/CM Policy 1</b></p> <p>1 Policy Statement 3</p> <p>EDC/CM Manager Job Description 7</p> <p><b>Part II Basic Standards 9</b></p> <p>2 Writing CM Standards 11</p> <p>3 CM Requirements for Drafting Standards 15</p> <p>4 Technical Document Groups 17</p> <p>5 Teams for All CM Processes 21</p> <p>6 Cognizant Engineers 25</p> <p>7 Part Numbers 27</p> <p>8 Quantity and Units of Measure 33</p> <p>9 Bills of Material 35</p> <p>10 Approved Manufacturers List (AML) 37</p> <p>11 Deviations 39</p> <p>12 Spares List 43</p> <p>13 Prints/Point of Use/Paperless 45</p> <p>14 Signatures 47</p> <p>15 Class Coding/Naming Conventions/Group Technology 49</p> <p>16 Tabulated Documents 53</p> <p>17 Nameplate and Serial Number 55</p> <p><b>Part III Product and Document Release Process 57</b></p> <p>18 Release Policy 59</p> <p>19 Team in Release 63</p> <p>20 Phase Release 65</p> <p><b>Part IV Change Request Process 69</b></p> <p>21 Change Request Policy 71</p> <p>22 Team in Request 75</p> <p>23 Request Form 77</p> <p><b>Part V Change Control Process 81</b></p> <p>24 Change Control Policy 83</p> <p>25 Team in Change 89</p> <p>26 Change Form 91</p> <p>27 Interchangeability 99</p> <p>28 Part Number & Revision Level Changes 101</p> <p>29 Change Classification 103</p> <p>30 Mark Up of Design Documents 105</p> <p>31 Effectivity 109</p> <p>32 Effectivity Management 111</p> <p>33 Disposition of Old Design Parts 115</p> <p>34 Impacted/Affected by a Change 117</p> <p>35 Product Improvements 119</p> <p>36 Change Design Complete 121</p> <p>37 Actual Effectivity Tracking 125</p> <p>38 Line-Down Change 129</p> <p>39 Closing a Change 131</p> <p>40 Tracing Changes 133</p> <p><b>Part VI Changing Product shipped - Field Changes 135</b></p> <p>41 Change of Field Units 137</p> <p>42 Field Change Policy 139</p> <p>43 Field Change Order Form 141</p> <p><b>Part VII Odds and Ends 143</b></p> <p>44 Costing Design Changes 145</p> <p>45 Data Dictionary 151</p> <p>46 System Measurements 153</p> <p>47 Users Guide/CM Plan 157</p> <p>48 Acronyms and Definitions 163</p> <p>Author Biogaphy 173</p>

<p><b>Frank Watts</b> graduated in engineering from the University of Illinois engineering and has more than 48 years of industrial and consultation experience. He is an NDIA Certified Configuration and Data Manager. He founded his own company to specialize in configuration management and has presented seminars on the subject to over 4,000 product manufacturing people. He is the author of the best-selling <i>Engineering Documentation Control Handbook</i> which is now in its 4^th edition. <p>Frank has guided the development of the engineering change control process at many companies and made significant contributions toward improving the new product release process, installed ERP systems, new numbering systems, helped companies attain a single BOM database and guided reengineering of the CM processes. His industrial experience includes Caterpillar, Collins Radio, Control Data, Storage Technology, UFE and Archive.

<p><b>This manual is applicable to any product manufacturing environment and enables passing government, commercial and ISO standards/specifications.</b> <p>Engineering Documentation Control — sometimes called Configuration Management or Product Lifecycle Management — is a key ingredient to world-class product manufacturing. <p>In order to achieve best-in-class CM it is necessary to document what you do, do what you document and, preferably, continuously improve what you do. With this manual, companies can bridge the gap between engineering and manufacturing. While there are many commercial, military and agency standards, this manual is directed at how to achieve best-in-class processes which are "make sense," fast, accurate, efficient, effective, measured and well understood. <p>With this manual, you have the best of the best management practices for the configuration management processes. They also go a long way toward satisfying Total Quality Management, FDA, GMP, Lean CM and ISO/QS/AS 9XXX process documentation requirements. The one requirement common to all those standards is to <i>document the processes and to do what you document.</i> <p><b>Audience</b> <p>This Standards Manual will be used by industrial engineers, designers, draftsmen, release?& change processors, document control, production control, master schedulers, and management people in all manufacturing areas.

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