Configuration Management: Implementation, Principles, and Applications for Manufacturing Industries

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Joseph Sorrentino

Configuration Management

Implementation, Principles, and Applications for Manufacturing Industries

Joseph Sorrentino

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CRC Press
19 September 2019

Project management; Production & quality control management; Engineering: general; Production engineering; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Best Practices in Configuration Management to Ensure Quality

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. Configuration Management: Implementation, Principles, and Applications for Manufacturing Industries 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.

Examines the Lost Tribal Wisdom of Project Management

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 missing tribal wisdom – 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.

The author emphasizes these foundational principles:

Configuration management is designed to turn perception into reality

If changes are made to configuration items, the safety of the product could be breached

Configuration item selections must be made by a team, not by one person or department

In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of this groundbreaking management style, this text presents case studies in which an understanding of config

By: Joseph Sorrentino
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367386641
ISBN 10: 036738664X
Pages: 105
Publication Date: 19 September 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Turning Perception into Reality with Configuration Management. Configuration Management: From Concept to Completion Using Management by Objective Evidence. Contractual Requirements. The ""Lost Tribal Wisdom"" of Project Management. Measuring and Analysis for Continuous Improvement."

Sorrentino, Joseph