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Blytheco Home | Sage Software | MAS 500 | Modules | Manufacturing | Engineering Change Management
Engineering Change Management—
Sage MAS 500 |
Quality control is one of the most important business
concerns for manufacturers. Sage Software can
help you
control production costs by producing quality parts
for your
most demanding customers.
Labor operations and material items are constantly
changing as new items are developed and
manufacturing
processes are streamlined using newer
equipment.
Consequently, it is more important
than ever before to
standardize your engineering change management
process.
The Sage MAS 500 ERP Engineering Change Management
(ECM) module integrates with e-mail
notifications,
providing instant visibility and standardized approval
methods for routing and bill of
material changes.
Any change made to an ECM-controlled routing and bill of material is routed through e-mail to
members of an approval group. Each member has a specified amount of time to approve any
engineering changes.
Engineering Change Management can also be used to track effective dates and retirement dates for
each routing and bill of material.
Engineering Change Management is crucial to quality control and is a
requirement for ISO and QS
certification. |
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Features: |
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Control changes made to labor operations, move times, queue times, setup hours,
or other labor-related data for each routing. |
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Manage changes made to new raw materials or substituted component items. |
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Create new change requests when multimedia files are updated. ECMs may include
new machine setup videos or material handling instructions. |
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Use change requests to track changes made to engineering drawings. You can also
create hyperlinks to show relationships between current and previous drawings
using the built-in CAD viewer. |
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| Each engineering change may contain up to seven different approval levels. |
| Members of each sequence may check an approval box online providing updated
access to change request status. |
| Notes can be entered for each approval sequence. |
| E-mail notifications can be used with any MAPI-compatible e-mail system such as
Microsoft Exchange. |
| E-mail messages are sent to every member of up to seven different sequence
groups. |
| If the approvals must be made in order, then the e-mail notifications are sent to
members of the next sequence group after the previous group has approved the
change. |
| Multiple e-mail addresses may be entered for each sequence level. |
| Changes may contain an effective date. This is the date that the new routing/bill of
material version will take effect and the old version will become inactive. |
| You can specify a retirement date for each change as well. For example, you may
want to set a retirement date for a routing/bill of material if you know that you will
be using a substitute part only for a specified time. |
| Change management helps manufacturers meet stringent quality control standards
set forth in ISO/QS certification programs. |
| The Sage MAS 500 ECM system improves the production process by closely
monitoring changes made to production standards and costs. |
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Reports: |
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ECM Approvals (e-mail-based alert) |
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Past Due ECM Approvals |
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Approval Type Listing |
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 Engineering Change Management - printable download of this page (PDF 550 kb) |
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