Configuration Management for Senior Managers

Preface

Engineering documentation control (EDC), configuration management (CM), and product lifecycle management (PLM) are names and acronyms given to what this author considers to be much the same subject—thus the shortened title—CM for Senior Managers.

CM for Senior Managers is about the important issues and policies in the product life cycle for product manufacturing companies. CM is, without doubt, a critical discipline for any size operation because the company’s product is embodied in the design drawings and specifications.

We will identify what is important for the executives, senior managers, and others to understand about the control of the product design; electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, fluids, and embedded software documentation ...