 CM Metrics
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While writing the third edition
of the EDC Handbook, I realized that while it contains some basic
measurements for the CM / Product Lifecycle processes, much more
needs to be said about the subject. Much more about measurements
and metrics, their development, reporting and analyzing company
performance in this arena is needed.
CM processes must be established and documented in order to make
many meaningful measurements and reports. Process improvement
is speculative without metrics to measure progress. Process documentation
is required for meaningful training as well as a basis for improvement.
Thus, this book is intended to fill that need.
The author's Mechanical/Industrial Engineering education and
over 50 years in product manufacturing and consultation experience
has evolved some basic principles about processes and measurement
of them:
Principle: Processes are the very essence of business.
Principle: Fast, accurate, efficient, documented, measured
and well understood processes are the most important key to best
in class or world class manufacturing.
Principle:
The first step toward solving a problem is recognition and definition
of the problem - and measurement is hugely significant to both
recognition and definition.
Principle:
Measurement, in and of itself tends to improve performance by
highlighting problems and performance, thus opening the door
to improvement
Principle:
Measurement, without concise reporting and high visibility, looses
effectiveness.
Principle:
The first step toward process improvement is measurement of the
process. Without measurement one cannot tell if there is, in
fact, improvement.
Principle:
Every organization within a product manufacturing company needs
to develop a few key indicators (metrics) for their portion of
the operations.
Principle:
Every man-made process can be improved by man.
This book will be based on those principles
and is normally directed to the Design Engineering/Configuration
Management functions. There are, of course, many measurements
in operations, the supply chain, quality, service, accounting,
personnel, etc. which need to be addressed in any product manufacturing
company. This book will not enter those domains except as engineering's
design and documentation enters them - which is considerable.
Thus we will focus on design engineering, engineering documentation
control and configuration management arena, across functional
lines, wherever it leads us.
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1st Ed 2009
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