Proposed configuration management II based engineering change management framework in product lifecycle management (PLM) system

The global playground where companies are trying to succeed today has gradually become unforeseeable: The product lifecycle has shortened, becoming much shorter than in the past, and a good consumer differentiation is suffering from the worldwide market, due to an increasingly large product mix. Although previous studies have suggested models for Engineering Change Management (ECM), they were mostly focused on deficient criteria for ECM. ECM experiments have also provided useful findings from the viewpoint of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) architecture domain. Nevertheless, few of these studies indicated a structure under Configuration Management II (CMII). This study presents a Change Management (CM) framework based on CM-II theory for PLM. In this context, related concepts are defined, then the engineering change framework is proposed by the author. Three of the studies were accompanied by definitions of common ECM fields of emphasis, identifications from a prior observational study, the vital success ECM considerations, and the creation of a suggested structure. Firstly, the findings of this analysis expand the scope of the architecture domain of PLM alone to integrate the manufacturing domain of ERP for ECM research relative to previous ECM studies. Second, from the standpoint of framework assessment, only a design configuration framework was suggested by previous ECM studies. Importantly, the present thesis proposes an advanced ECM architecture based on CMII principles has enterprise wide perspective rather than design centric whom backbone of CM.