CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 February 2008
Product News
ProSTEP iViP Recommendation on Engineering Change Order (ECO) Now Released
It is one of the automobile industry’s general goals to reduce the processing time of the product creation process while still increasing its quality. In this context it is vitally important that changes are communicated and implemented as soon as possible including all the partners involved from development, planning and manufacturing and according to a defined change process (Engineering Change Management (ECM)).
A very important part of these processes is the handling of change orders (Engineering Change Order (ECO)). After specifying the technical bases and processes on change requests (Engineering Change Request (ECR)) the ProSTEP iViP / VDA project group ECM has just passed another milestone. „Our objective was to define processes that allow all partners to handle change orders in the product creation process in a seamless and traceable manner. With the present Recommendation this objective has been achieved. The ProSTEP iViP Recommendation on ECO is an effective tool for a frictionless implementation of change orders, allowing us to reduce time and costs“, explains project leader Jürgen Scharpf of Daimler AG.
The working results on ECO now documented in the ProSTEP iViP Recommendation PSI 3-2 complement the developed recommendations on Engineering Change Management (VDA 4965-0) and Engineering Change Request (VDA 4695-1). This recommendation series is the joint working result of companies in the automobile industry as well as suppliers, software vendors and research institutes. The PSI 3-2 is mature and complete, but as it has not yet been validated in industry pilots it will be released as a draft for the time being. Interested companies are more than welcome to participate in the validation of PSI 3-2.
The ProSTEP iViP Recommendation PSI 3-2 (Draft) is available for download free of charge on the website of the ProSTEP iViP Association: http://www.prostep.org.
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