How Important Is Change Control?

       Most technology-driven companies spend between 4% to 8% of their costs on integrating change management and document control into a complex array of products. Utilizing the full capability of the CMstat system, you can reduce these direct costs by up to 75% and generate immediate cost reductions by reducing rework, re-engineering, search and review time.

The CMstat Change module is fully integrated and automatically provides you with all the necessary information required to make intelligent decisions when faced with potential product changes.

CMstat provides pre-programmed, yet customizable, change objects including:

• Engineering Change Request (ECR)
• Engineering Change Order (ECO)
• Engineering Change Proposal (Embedded ECP Form 1692)
• Deviations
• Waivers
• Unsatisfactory Change Report (UCR)

These objects form the basis of the "closed-loop" change management system, integrated to provide you with the necessary part and document information required for change analysis.

Reviewers have ready access to "used-on" information, relationships of affected parts to other products and projects, as well as relationships to configuration items, document baselines, serialized fielded products, WIP information and electronic documentation.

The integrated BPM - Advanced Workflow Module automates the most complex review and approval processes for the above objects. Process flows are user-defined to fit your organizational needs.

Our collaborative Online Document Review System allows all participants in the change process to attend on-line review meetings regardless of their geographical location.

The ability for your supply chain to simultaneously participate in the review process and access all the needed information reduces change processing time, the cost of changes and the actual number of changes.