Configuration Management

<p></p><p><strong>Best Practices in Configuration Management to Ensure Quality</strong></p><p></p><p>Many organizations are invoking a new kind of management technique – Configuration Management – meant to ensure a product maintains its originally intended design materials composition and processing throughout its entire lifecycle. This method moves away from current supply chain thinking in which products often undergo countless changes throughout the process. <strong>Configuration Management: <em>Implementation Principles and Applications for Manufacturing Industries</em></strong> decreases the risk of safety breaches and timely and expensive changes while preserving the quality of the end product. This volume provides businesses with the management objectives necessary for survival in today’s corporate structure. </p><p></p><p><strong>Examines the <em>Lost Tribal Wisdom</em> of Project Management</strong></p><p></p><p>This valuable guide emphasizes that configuration management is driven by designers not by the often unpredictable whims of end-users. It also addresses ways to overcome <em>missing tribal wisdom</em> – the tendency to fall into the new-newer-newest syndrome always looking for the next great technology software etc. The book contains more than 60 reader-friendly tables figures and checklists to help bolster understanding of these and other discussed management concepts.</p><p></p><p>The author emphasizes these foundational principles:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Configuration management is designed to turn perception into reality</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>If changes are made to configuration items the safety of the product could be breached</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Configuration item selections must be made by a team not by one person or department</li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of this groundbreaking management style this text presents case studies in which an understanding of config</p>