Configuration Management Metrics: Product Lifecycle and Engineering Documentation Control Measurements

Configuration Management (CM) has become a key strategy for successful manufacturing companies. Controlling the design documentation throughout its lifecycle and knowing what is in the product is very important for quickly moving a new product to the marketplace, identifying and making necessary changes as fast as possible. CM is similarly important to efficient, high quality and low cost supply chain and production processes. It is also critical to maintenance, repair, retrofit, service parts provisioning as well at the elephant in the room - liability protection. Fast, accurate, efficient, documented, measured and well understood Configuration Management is also critical to profitability.Frank Watts' Engineering Documentation Control Handbook -- now in its third edition -- has already helped thousands of engineers and managers to implement Configuration Management strategies and achieve world-class manufacturing. This new book provides detailed guidance on developing and implementing the measurement systems that form the heart of a successful Configuration Management system. Distribution methods for metrics are discussed along with the people targeted Demonstrates methods of graphing or charting the data, with benchmarks Includes definitions of data, terms and acronyms - an invaluable reference for most CM writing as well as a resource for writing new standards