Configuration Management
Site Configuration Management
Case Study
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Mission
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Establish a contemporary Configuration Management environment which
ensures Configuration consistency of products throughout the life cycle
of a program for our Customer
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Provide visibility to dynamic program baselines over many years.
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Facilitates easy Customer access to CM information, including As-Built
records.
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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
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State-of-the Art Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) application Product
Management (PDM) Tool with focused expertise in Configuration/Data
Management processes.
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Oracle based system with enhanced search and sort capabilities
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PDM Tool that is “Intuitive”
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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.
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TDP Metadata
Configuration Control Metadata-Change Request, Engineering Changes, ECPs
As-Built Data, Site As-Built Data
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Supports baseline models based on MIL and EIA Standards
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Manages multiple Baselines- Documents or Parts/Software
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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
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Depicts the many relationships of configuration controlled data
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Handles multiple “As-configured” scenarios using the ”Asdesigned foundation.
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Allows for the Certification of Parts if required (FAA Programs)
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Allows for “User Defined Attribute” (UDA) fields that are
adaptable to a Company requirements.
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Allows “Customer Access” through Security/Access Control
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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
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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
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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.
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Allows for additional fields for Customer Bar Codes, IP Address Information.
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Allows for authorized site personnel or their Customers to update “AsBuilt” records with replacement serialized parts through Web based
Interface-Asset Tracking
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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
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Required a PDM database, state-of-the art, that is operational with data
content appropriate for Production, Field/Deployment and Operational
Support Phases.
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With the large amount of automation, the concept of interoperability
becomes very important, especially for the DOD and FAA.
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Another Customer required fields for Costs of Parts
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CMstat met all requirements/functionality as the PDM tool.
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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
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Great! Never had such capabilities before! Can’t do with out it!
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This is the first program to provide access to live data!
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CMstat provided “Solutions for Customer”
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Customer asked, “What else can you do for us?”
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Current CMstat Customers working on FAA contracts have increased the
scope of their business by offering Features and Functionality provided
by the CMstat solution.
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Become a “Total System Provider” with “Live Data”- CMstat
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