Engineering Change Management (ECM)

Engineering Change Management can drive top-line benefits. Thus ECM is essential for the entire product development. Companies use ECM with an eye towards improving speed to market.

A rapid and efficient change process allows a company to efficiently solve issues more quickly. This reduces the impact a change has on the product launch date or the date a change can be implemented in manufacturing. Increasing efficiency enables engineers to focus on delivering a solution more quickly while limiting non-value added work.

Changes to a product occur frequently in high tech engineering environments, where initial product designs are often continuously evolving prototypes. This rapid and efficient change process can be achieved through an integrated IT-system. With an IT-system changes can be implemented with minimum cost and effort while providing maximum quality and benefits. 
Engineering Change Management ensures that technical requirements are clearly defined, documented and controlled throughout the product life cycle.

You are looking for: 

• You want to simplify your change process, speed up the processing times of change operations and at the same time achieve a complete documentation and traceability of the change history in order to meet all the needs of your customers and to provide evidence for each product development process. 
• You want to avoid system and media breaks hindering an integrated change management.
• You are faced with the challenge to connect with partners and customers across location boundaries and adapt to the demands of an extended enterprise or different  collaboration scenarios.
• You want to create effective organizational structure in order to establish an effective corporate Engineering Change Management.

GOPA ITC provides everything needed to set up fast, effective and secure change processes, which ensure data accuracy and consistency.

An integrated ECM will give you following benefits:

• a full traceability of all documentation and relationships
• eliminate risks caused by unauthorized or false changes to documents
• always synchronized information
• saving costs, time and effort
• no multiple entry of data in different fields
• improved usage of resources for a enterprise-wide management of ECM