EDC Handbook - CM & PLM

By Frank B Watts BSME, CCDM
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Over 11,000 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ed. copies purchased - now in 4th Ed.

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Dear Frank,

Inertia Switch would like to thank you for some of the best wisdom regarding configuration management. We were recently awarded several quality awards and received our IS9001 and AS9100 certification last month. A majority of our audit revolved a great deal around design and development control. We received 100% scores in these areas resulting from techniques we used in your book. We are an old but newly managed Aerospace company serving the world. Some customers are NASA, Lockheed, Airbus, Boeing, Raytheon, and Sikorsky. All of these companies have accepted our methods and most have commented that they wish their system was as simple. We feel confident that your "good logic" will continue to grow our company for many years to come. Again many more thanks from all of us.

Best Regards,
Brian DiGirolamo
Vice President, Chief Engineer

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Fourth Edition Preface
The wide acceptance of this book has been very gratifying. This work seems to have taken on a life of its own. The third edition publisher wrote: “Your book over the last year has resulted in the most ‘Buy This Book’ links of our entire catalog . It is very well received by the Googleites.” Sales have exceeded 11,000 at the time of writing of this fourth edition. Why? While management fads come and go, buzzword programs abound, software acronyms and software applications ebb and flow, the critical importance and the basics of engineering documentation control remain the same.

The author thinks of himself as “the Vince Lombardi of document control.” Basic blocking and tackling! In that sense, the fourth edition has not changed the principles but has been significantly rewritten and edited. A new chapter on product manufacturing systems has been added. All with the intent of improved explanations, emphasizing product lifecycle management, and Configuration Management (CM) as engineering’s quality control function.

Whether you think of this subject as Engineering Documentation
Control (EDC) or CM, or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) it needs
to be recognized as a key business strategy. The wall or gap between
engineering and the rest of the world has existed too long in many
companies. The “throw it over the wall” syndrome can be overcome. It is
prevalent in new product releases, bills of material, change requests, and
change processes as well as in related software packages. Simple, make-sense,
fast, accurate, efficient, measured, and well-understood Engineering Documentation Control/Configuration and Product Lifecycle Management can tear down that wall – bridge that gap.

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