Automating your Engineering Change Management Process
Implementing an engineering change management (ECM) process is a best practice for any company. Done well, your ECM can optimize design and development, boost productivity, and accelerate your ability to bring game-changing products to market. In other words, the quality of your ECM can directly influence your revenue and your reputation.
But there’s more to an ECM than just setting and forgetting it. Without the right implementation and guidance, an ECM process can lead to bottlenecks, flawed decision-making, higher costs, and increased errors.
Your team might run into duplicate change requests or some requests might fall through the cracks. Supporting documents can go missing when you want to check the background of a certain design change. Or maybe they’re just stored away across a dozen hard drives, CRM and ERP systems, servers, and file shares. Any of these scenarios can make it tough for you to determine what information is up-to-date and what isn’t.
