EPOCH CM was developed for use by OEMs and supply/service chain contractors working in high-tech industries such as aviation, aerospace & defense, marine, transportation, rail, heavy equipment, and energy. These industries design, build, deploy, commission, support, maintain, refurbish, repair, and retire or recycle high-value assets. Such assets are often deployed with complex mission-critical configurations that can vary by lot, serial number, owner-operator, location, contract, date, and operating environment.
These long-life assets, which are often far removed from the OEM’s original engineering PDM or enterprise PLM systems, go thru many "As-X" configuration changes over their lifecycle. These include As-Built, As-Delivered, As-Installed, As-Tested, As-Certified, As-Provisioned, As-Maintained, As-Refurbished, and even As-Retired.
EPOCH was designed for use not only by CM specialists and certified experts but also by occasional users and managers who are downstream consumers of configuration data. These roles include those working in program management, engineering services, project management, procurement, supply chain, logistics, quality, test, provisioning, compliance, aftermarket service, sustainment, and MRO. EPOCH CM provides the most comprehensive yet easily usable Configuration Management capabilities available today for managing, documenting, tracking, and reporting changes to the past, present, and future configuration states of products, equipment, systems, and other assets that may operate in the field for years or even decades.
CMstat’s Vice President of Development, Lisa Fenwick comments: “The development of CMstat EPOCH CM has allowed us to take advantage of new technologies and an improved architecture to create a product that is a step-function improvement for both CM and DM professionals along with the IT specialists who support them. Our customers structure configuration-related data and create relationships that model their product information in the way that is best for them without limitation. At the same time, they have the confidence that comes with working within an environment that enforces basic accepted practices and maintains the integrity of their data.”
EPOCH CM was implemented with strict adherence to the most rigorous industry standards and best practices for CM including those from EIA-649 and CMPIC. Cynthia Hauer, President of the Association for Configuration and Data Management (ACDM) and Founder Owner of High Mountain Data Management, shared her observations:
“We found EPOCH to be highly intuitive to use and based on fundamental standards that promote data integrity, provenance, and source. It transforms data from these fundamental principles into knowledge and then into information that provides actionable insights. EPOCH aids collaboration by providing a common language to practitioners.”
EPOCH CM is part of the larger CMstat EPOCH product portfolio which includes EPOCH DM. EPOCH DM provides for data management of the deliverables associated with government and commercial contracts in the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries. EPOCH DM helps data managers to aggregate, track, review, audit, and secure the many interdependent data handling tasks the perform. It does so by managing contract data deliverables and automating workflow processes in the context of their associated programs, contracts, projects, and compliance requirements.
