EDC Handbook - CM in Industry

By Frank B Watts BSME, CCDM
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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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Third 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 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 10,000 at this third edition writing. Why? While management fads come and go, buzz-word programs abound, software acronyms and software applications ebb and flow, the basics of engineering documentation control remain the same. The writer thinks of himself as "the Vince Lombardi of document control." Basic blocking and tackling! When the publisher asked for a third edition, it was therefore difficult to think of ways to add value. Some restructuring, editing and much clarification has been done. The index is improved. New chapters on the Supply Chain and on Implementation are combinations of new material and consolidation of information that was scattered elsewhere in the book.
Whether you think of this subject as Engineering Documentation Control (EDC) or Configuration Management (CM), it needs to be recognized as a key business strategy. The wall or gap between Engineering and the rest of the world has existed in many companies too long. The "throw it over the wall" syndrome can be overcome. It is prevalent in new product releases, bills of material, change request, and change processes. Simple, make sense, fast, accurate, efficient, measured and well understood Engineering Documentation Control/Configuration Management can tear down that wall - bridge that gap.
Considerable emphasis is placed on the speed of the processes in recognition of the high cost of slow reaction time. It presents the premise that quick release of new product documentation and the ability to change the documentation and the product quickly is critical to a company's profitability.
Product documentation is discussed. What data should / shouldn't be on the documents is covered. Numbering / identification / interchangeability are thoroughly discussed. Design team / concurrent engineering concepts are integrated into the suggested release, request and change processes. Emphasis is placed on accuracy and value of the processes. Ways and means of reinventing the processes are explored. Rules are developed with reasoning given. Bill of material content, structuring and maintenance are all thoroughly discussed. The generic processes are flow diagramed. Development of simplistic standards and audit of the system against those standards is covered. The multitude of benefits of having a fast, accurate, well documented and well understood system are analyzed.

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