case study
Engineering Change Management aligned to Business and Compliance Needs
The business needed another way to view and work with Engineering change management, that was better integrated with the product development process but still fulfilled all requirements on compliance.
Challenge
A global manufacturing company had a complex engineering change management process that required extensive coordination
The change ran as one entity. This made final status accounting and verification of the change challenging
Open design changes prevented further changes to shared components, limiting reuse across product lines
Approach
A top-down data management perspective was applied, defining what information and verification were required for compliance before adapting the process and supporting systems
A decoupled change structure, allowing design and industrialisation changes to be planned, executed, and verified separately while maintaining the required dependencies between them
Value Added
Each entity could now focus on their responsibilities and be in control of the quality of the work as well as the time planning. Time saved could now be spent on executing the change
The overall product quality improved as the lead time for each change decreased and thereby had less problems with need to recapture and possible loss of knowledge during the way
Changes to shared components became easier to initiate, supporting greater reuse across product lines