Configuration management
Promoting enterprise competitiveness, flexibility, and longevity in an organization requires an effective framework to control and monitor complex information and data throughout the product lifecycle.
The discipline that satisfies this definition is known as “configuration management.”
Challenges and solutions
CHALLENGES
- Satisfy client expectations and needs
- Satisfy requirements from certification and regulatory authorities
- Ensure the traceability of product development and maturation
- Optimize costs
- Control product quality
PCO INNOVATION'S SOLUTIONS
PCO Innovation will advise and accompany you in the implementation of PLM best practice.
PLM can respond to these needs through a set of processes that are part of configuration management. At the product level these processes involve:
- Identification
assigning product identifiers, breaking the product down into managed entities according to the relevant business view, supplying online references with key product lifecycle milestones. - Modification
identifying product change needs, investigating and analyzing the impact of the proposed change, deciding whether to approve or reject the change, supervising the implementation of the change - Tracing
recording product configuration states throughout the lifecycle under consideration, analyzinge and identifying all causes and responsibilities that led to these states, managinge repositories (baselines) - Verification
making sure that all verification, validation, and approval activities take place.
Value added by PCO Innovation
- Unbiased recommendation of the best technological option
- Preliminary preparation of a change management plan is essential for such a project and its application
- Collaboration must be managed as a project based on business goals and objectives
- The preparation of a solution focused on the challenges involved.
- Out of the Box approach based on our technical partnerships with PLM software leaders
- The availability of a large international workforce in a company built on a human scale
Our offer
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