Abstract
Engineering changes are inevitable and emerge at any stage of the product lifecycle. Lot of research and implementations have been done for development of support systems at the design stage. However, fewer efforts have been found in the area of manufacturing and associated management. Implementation stage in a plant must be considered as critical as the design stage, and involved teams must be equipped with the right system and tools. The paper proposes a framework for effective engineering change management (ECM) based on the experience of working with major automobile original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and well supported by review of past literature. Working closely with various domain experts has resulted in a large chunk of knowledge which is summarised in this paper. Three cases from the OEMs are also reported for understanding impact of improper change management. Proposed framework was tested and successfully implemented in one of the leading OEM.
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