Topic: Manufacturing Change Management

Over the years, I’ve seen many new Arena customers wrestle with the question of whether a new component revision should trigger a new revision of the assembly or assemblies that contain it.

Finding the right level of control for your manufacturing change approvals is essential for getting your product to market on time and at cost, but knowing when to loosen up and when to lock down is often a tricky […]

It’s the end of the year—the best time to get organized for the year to come. If you found yourself struggling with out-of-control changes in 2011, maybe it’s finally time to create and formalize an engineering change […]

You can’t engineer without a process for managing product changes, but the road to a solid change management process is frequently bumpy, and lined with certain battles.

The ability to effectively manage production and customer drawings, engineering specs and quality documents is important for all manufacturers, but for companies that build engineer-to-order (ETO) products it is […]

For most companies, manufacturing changes begin when an issue is identified on the manufacturing floor and end when a solution is implemented into a product’s design. But there are a million ways to manage what […]