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Configuration Management

Site Configuration ManagementCase Study

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Mission

Establish a contemporary Configuration Management environment which ensures Configuration consistency of products throughout the life cycle of a program for our Customer

Provide visibility to dynamic program baselines over many years.

Facilitates easy Customer access to CM information, including As-Built records.

Utilize proven, existing operating systems for complete Configuration Information through Field/Deployment and Operational Support Phases.

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Key Features Requirements for PDM Tool

State-of-the Art Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) application Product Management (PDM) Tool with focused expertise in Configuration/Data Management processes.

Oracle based system with enhanced search and sort capabilities

PDM Tool that is “Intuitive” Ease of Training personnel-Less Cost Ease in setting up system/updates-Less Cost

Provide a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) for viewing, entering and manipulating data. TDP Metadata Configuration Control Metadata-Change Request, Engineering Changes, ECPs As-Built Data, Site As-Built Data

Supports baseline models based on MIL and EIA Standards

Manages multiple Baselines- Documents or Parts/Software Allows for multiple baselines by Hardware Configuration Items/Software

Configuration Item A PDM tool that efficiently manages all the Hardware, Software and

Firmware that is found in nearly all products today.

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Key Features Requirements for PDM

Depicts the many relationships of configuration controlled data

Handles multiple “As-configured” scenarios using the ”As-designed foundation.

Allows for the Certification of Parts if required (FAA Programs)

Allows for “User Defined Attribute” (UDA) fields that are adaptable to a Company requirements.

Allows “Customer Access” through Security/Access Control Customer access to live active CM data and Technical Data Package

(TDP) Increase customer collaboration/cooperation May be a first for your Customer to receive “Live Active Data” Further Business prospects with existing customers with “Live

Active Data”.

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Key Features Requirements for PDM

Allows for the impact of ever changing COTS Equipment with methods to permit flexibility and control in the extensive use of alternate, substitute and superseding COTS parts in the assembly process

Unique As-Designed/ As-Built Configuration of 300+ Sites had to be captured Allows for Multiple levels of As-Built records to be retained for Customers and

their Customers

Allows for large As-Built or Serialize Assembly Records (SAR) with 7000 line items.

PDM system needed to address customer desire for “BCATS”, an asset tracking tool. Allows for additional fields for Customer Bar Codes, IP Address Information.

Allows for authorized site personnel or their Customers to update “As-Built” records with replacement serialized parts through Web based Interface-Asset Tracking

Allows for Non-Standard Reference Designation Schemes that Concatenate Reference Designations correctly in “As-Built” Records

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Ease of Data Access

How are you going to find the information you need for site installation No 287?

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Solutions for your Customer-Total System Provider

Required a PDM database, state-of-the art, that is operational with data content appropriate for Production, Field/Deployment and Operational Support Phases.

With the large amount of automation, the concept of interoperability becomes very important, especially for the DOD and FAA.

Another Customer required fields for Costs of Parts

CMstat met all requirements/functionality as the PDM tool.

CMstat can position Customers for the future as a “ Total System Provider” to their Customers-DOD, FAA.

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Customer Reaction to Live Data from CMstat

Great! Never had such capabilities before! Can’t do with out it!

This is the first program to provide access to live data!

CMstat provided “Solutions for Customer”

Customer asked, “What else can you do for us?”

Current CMstat Customers working on FAA contracts have increased the scope of their business by offering Features and Functionality provided by the CMstat solution.

Become a “Total System Provider” with “Live Data”- CMstat