Practical CM: Best Configuration Management Practices - Hardcover

Lyon, David D

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750647248 ISBN 13: 9780750647243

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000

Synopsis

Practical CM: Best Configuration Management Practices for the 21st Century includes money-saving CM control methodologies and provides comprehensive and user-friendly guidelines for the transition from paper-based CM Systems to electronic Product Data Management (PDM) systems.



Practical CM covers both Hardware and Software CM "best practices", and describes the process for planning, implementing and integrating PDM systems into existing business processes to put these CM "best practices" to their most effective use. Also included are templates and sample plans and forms with many ideas for tailoring them to the overall CM process. Common traps and pitfalls to be avoided in the CM process are also described.

Beginning with a clear examination of the conventional, classical CM process in a manufacturing environment, David D Lyon then proceeds to describe the step-by-step implementation of the new CM process using well-adapted software tools such as PDM. The complete planning, implementation and integration process for a PDM system is also clearly laid out in a series of templates.

Through the use of specific procedures and guidelines, the book clearly maps out the steps to implement a fully automated CM environment in a cost-effective manner.



A practical 'how-to' book for professionals.
Provides CM 'best practices', processes, procedures, methodologies, guidelines, and lessons learned.
Provides a generic methodology that can be utilized to plan, implement and integrate PDM systems within businesses of all sizes.

About this title

From the Publisher

This book has been superseded and replaced by ISBN 0966124820, 'Practical CM: Best Configuration Management Practices for the 21st Century', by David D. Lyon (same author), Fourth Edition, Spiral Bound with CD-ROM, Year 2002 Edition.

From the Author

The spiral bound version of 'Practical CM' is identical in content to the hard cover/CDROM version. It continues to be made available upon request by my readers for use as a reference document. It has the advantage of laying flat on a surface, open to the page selected, so that the reader can have both hands free to perform other tasks. It is also the version which I hand out during my CM seminars. The large pages are ideal for jotting down notes and comments. I hope that my readers will continue to find it useful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750647248
• ISBN 13: 9780750647243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208