PDXpert PLM software features: Engineering change forms & workflow
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
