Engineering Change Management
Manufacturers are repeatedly faced with input from customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders which, directly or indirectly, advocates for product modifications. This input triggers internal engineering change control processes that are complex in nature, involving many objects, tasks, and people who may be scattered across several departments and locations. Successfully executing these engineering changes is a matter of absorbing this input into an engineering change management process which manages the objects affected by the change, and routes change-related information and tasks to the agents responsible for the affected objects.
With all your product data in one system, which could be an engineering change management software, you will have complete transparency in your change management engineering procedures. This software will fully enable you to understand the design, manufacturing, and supply chain impact of engineering changes before they are implemented and enforce best-practice and workflow-driven end-to-end business processes. This facilitates better business decisions and ensures that drawings and related documentation always reflect the latest changes. The employment of engineering change management software effectively improves the efficiency and accuracy of the engineering change control process, thereby enhancing overall product development and lifecycle management.
Key Benefits
Know the cost and feasibility of engineering changes
An overview of the downstream impact enables you to take more informed and cost-beneficial decisions related to engineering change orders. Save time by not having to identify the impact of change manually.
Shorten change cycles
Ensure the timely phase-in of new revisions in Dynamics 365 F&SCM with improved responsiveness towards input from customers and colleagues.
Increased collaboration and coordination
With both ERP and PLM change-related data shared across engineering and operations, you will be able to coordinate multiple changes simultaneously with greater precision.
Enforce best practice change procedures
Your entire organization operating in a shared CAD+PLM+ERP environment will abide by formal change procedures for increased quality and consistency.
Reduce errors in the change process
Easier manage and monitor engineering changes with an overview of the complete change history and latest updates, so production will always have access to the latest revisions for reducing costly errors in production.
Increased engineering productivity
Eliminate redundant administrative processes that accompanies engineering changes when all product data is connected in a single system – Dynamics 365 F&SCM.
Complete data transparency
With both ERP and PLM change-related data shared across engineering and operations, people will be informed and prepared to handle change requests so you can spend less time getting stakeholders up to speed during meetings.
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What have our customers accomplished?
AMF Bakery Systems
Achieved 150% revenue growth through PLM and ERP implementation. Reduced errors and enhanced quality management improved product reliability. Streamlined processes boosted productivity across all departments.
Key Features
Integration with Dynamics 365 ECM
The interconnectivity between Bluestar PLM – and Dynamics 365 ECM allows creating change requests in Dynamics 365 F&SCM, completing the engineering changes in Bluestar PLM, then finalizing the change with the manufacturing changes in the Dynamics 365 F&SCM. This not only ensures that the whole change is covered within a single flow, but also improves the traceability and manageability of multi-revision product data without losing any of the known Bluestar PLM functionality.
End-to-end change management
Provides an integrated platform for creating, planning and implementing product changes while taking all dependencies in Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Service into account.
Workflow automation
Drives ECO processes spanning engineering and operations with cross-functional workflow automation. A graphical drag and drop design engine allows for the easy creation of best-practice workflow templates.
Revision trail and comparison
Stores a complete revision history of Dynamics 365 F&SCM items, BOMs and the associated drawings and technical documentation. Enables the comparison of indented BOM revisions.
Change impact analysis
Analyses the impact a product change has on routes and work-in-progress (sales orders, production orders, purchase orders, inventories, etc.).
“What-if” scenarios
Enables ECO cost and feasibility calculations to help make better change decisions.
Release control
Advanced control of when and to which Dynamics 365 F&SCM companies revisions are released.
Affected designs analysis
Generates a list of how other product designs are affected by a product change.
Mass replace
Easily replace or delete a part wherever it is used on other BOMs.
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With Bluestar PLM, you can enhance business decision-making and ensures that drawings and related documentation always reflect the latest updates.
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