1st Edition

Configuration Management Implementation, Principles, and Applications for Manufacturing Industries

By Joseph Sorrentino Copyright 2009
    123 Pages
    by CRC Press

    123 Pages
    by CRC Press



    Best Practices in Configuration Management to Ensure Quality



    Many organizations are invoking a new kind of management technique – Configuration Management – meant to ensure a product maintains its originally intended design, materials, composition, and processing throughout its entire lifecycle. This method moves away from current supply chain thinking, in which products often undergo countless changes throughout the process. Configuration Management: Implementation, Principles, and Applications for Manufacturing Industries decreases the risk of safety breaches and timely and expensive changes, while preserving the quality of the end product. This volume provides businesses with the management objectives necessary for survival in today’s corporate structure.





    Examines the Lost Tribal Wisdom of Project Management



    This valuable guide emphasizes that configuration management is driven by designers, not by the often unpredictable whims of end-users. It also addresses ways to overcome missing tribal wisdom – the tendency to fall into the new-newer-newest syndrome, always looking for the next great technology, software, etc. The book contains more than 60 reader-friendly tables, figures, and checklists to help bolster understanding of these and other discussed management concepts.





    The author emphasizes these foundational principles:









    • Configuration management is designed to turn perception into reality






    • If changes are made to configuration items, the safety of the product could be breached






    • Configuration item selections must be made by a team, not by one person or department






    In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of this groundbreaking management style, this text presents case studies in which an understanding of config

    Turning Perception into Reality with Configuration Management. Configuration Management: From Concept to Completion Using Management by Objective Evidence. Contractual Requirements. The "Lost Tribal Wisdom" of Project Management. Measuring and Analysis for Continuous Improvement.

    Biography

    Sorrentino, Joseph