Functional description
Change management and control
PDXpert PLM offers incredible flexibility in defining
your change process. Not only can you create new change types and specify changes'
identification and workflows, you can choose whether a change type releases and
cancels items (change notices) or merely identifies issues and actions (CPA, change
requests, stop ships). Each change can have a pre-defined list of reviewers, a separate
list of observers, and rules for whether it can process documents or parts. You
can also specify who is authorized to sign on behalf of each reviewing group, and
whether a distinct approval password is required.
Each change type can:
- Be defined to manage documents or parts, or both
- Share a common numbering sequence, or use a type-specific sequence
- Subscribe to a common workflow, or use a type-specific workflow
- Apply text templates that prompt for appropriate summary and alternate solution
information
- Allow automatic or manual promotion from approval to release, and from disapproval
to cancellation, re-submittal or rejection
- Have a fully-configurable reviewer list and observer list
- Be reviewed by any number of approval groups, in any combination of sequential and
parallel notification paths
- Have virtually unlimited administrator-defined custom attributes
Each new change:
- References a complete ISO 9000-compatible "delta list" that shows every
new, changed, and obsolete item affected by the action
- Can be categorized by change problem type, change reason, interchangeability class,
and priority
- Can identify, for temporary actions (such as deviations, waivers, stop ships), beginning
and ending serial numbers or manufacturing dates, and/or total quantities affected
- Provides for both change summary and alternate solution discussions
- Automatically identifies products affected
- References related changes to provide a complete change impact
- Specifies the release/cancel effective date for each affected item
- Identifies dispositioning activity and cost impact for each affected item, and sums
these for the total change expense
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