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Seminars for Any Size Product Manufacturing Company

By: Frank Watts BSME, CCDM

Who Should Attend?

How Will the Course Serve You?


Who Should Attend? (top of page)
People from all of the following functions:

  • Documentation Control / Configuration Management
  • Development teams
  • Change Control Boards / Release Control Boards / Implementation Boards
  • Continuous Improvement / Steering / Re-engineering Teams
  • Design Engineers / Sustaining Engineers / Component Engineers
  • Designers / Drafters
  • Suppliers / Buyers / Planner - Buyer
  • Manufacturing / Industrial / Production Engineers
  • Production Control, Purchasing, Master Schedulers
  • Quality Assurance / TQM / ISO 9000 Team / Sales & Marketing
  • Field Service / Publications / Project Office
  • Middle Management for the above functions
  • Upper management for the above people

Typically, companies require the attendance of the key people involved in the CM Processes (Documenting, Releasing, BOM, Request, and Change Processes), their management and offer the opportunity to attend to peripheral groups.

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How Will the Course Serve You? - (top of page)

  • Creates common goals through self discovery.
  • Understanding of the critical nature of the EDC / CM discipline.
  • An appreciation of the benefits of and how to attain a fast accurate, efficient and well understood EDC / CM System.
  • Reduce costs through intelligent request / change screening.
  • Integration of the classical CM elements - Planning, Identification, Control, and Accounting - with the EDC processes.
  • An in depth understanding of the need for Minimum Process Control.
  • Learn the minimum control level needed.
  • The essentials of new item, assembly or product Documentation and Release.
  • Find out how to integrate the BOM/MRP/ERP with the Engineering Systems.
  • BOM structuring, content, levels, etc.
  • Importance of tearing down the wall between engineering and manufacturing.
  • How Publications, Field Service and Manufacturing documentation fit in.
  • Analize Group Technology / Part Numbering Systems
  • Design Teams / Concurrent Engineering Teams / Cross Functional Teams
  • Why manufacturing process documentation is so important.
  • Find out if engineering assembly drawings are really needed.
  • How to keep the Request for Change Process Simple.
  • The Who, What, How, Why, When, Where and cost estimating in the Engineering Change Process.
  • How to sort out changes that are counter productive.
  • Find out why speed is important and how to achieve fast change processing.
  • Understanding of the many facets of ISO / QS / AS 9000 as they relate to Exceptional Configuration Management.
  • Alternatives for Implementing CM Process Improvements.
  • Study process measurement and metrics for volume, thru-put time and quality.

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