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PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
BFF3503
ENGINEERING CHANGE
MANAGEMENT

OVERVIEW
Standard practice for the ISO certified company to develop
proper system in managing part modification.
Part modification initiated by Production Engineering using
the specified form developed as per Quality Management
System (QMS/ISO 9001)
All product documentation, including schematics, bills of
materials, PCB layouts, assembly drawings, etc. are kept
under revision control, and any changes to the product
documentation requires an approved ECN which results in a
subsequent revision to the specified documents.

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DEFINITION
A document authorizing and recording design changes throughout
the prototyping and life -cycle phases of a product.
ECN documentation contains the justification for changes made to a
component or system once the initial design is complete.

PURPOSE
Engineering Change Management is a central logistics function that
can be used to change various aspects of production basic data (for
example, BOMs, task lists, materials, and documents) with history
(with date affectivity) or depending on specific conditions (with
parameter affectivity) .

IMPORTANT ELEMENTS IN ECN

Must contain at least the following information (Ullman 2009);
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Identification of what needs to be changed. This should include the

part number and name of the component and reference to drawings
showing the component in detail or assembly.
Reason(s) for the change.
Description of the change. This includes a drawing of the component
before and after the change. The drawings must clearly show the
detail (s) affected by the change.
List of documents (and in industry, the departments) affected by the
change. The most important part of making a change is ensuring all
pertinent groups are notified and all documents updated.
Approval of the change. As with the detail and assembly drawings,
the changes must be approved by management.
Instruction about when to introduce the change immediately
(scrapping current inventory), during the next production run, or at
some other milestone.

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BENEFITS
Engineering change management by Engineering
Progress management of engineering change
Management on engineering change master's effective changed day

KEY PROCESS STEPS

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Issue of Engineering Change Request from the any parties (internal

department or supplier)
Checking Engineering Change Request of Production Engineering Personin-Charge
HOD approve Engineering Change Request and Convert it into a
Engineering Change Notice (ECN)
Circulate ECN to all the concerned department (Production, Production
Planning & Control, Store etc..)
Performing Changes to Bill of Materials and Master Production Plan (MPS)
Completing and Release Object Changes
Closing and Releasing Engineering Change Notice

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EXAMPLE FOR ECN ISSUING PROCESS

Scenario in Manufacturing Industry
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Starting from customer through a procurement department submitting a

change order request.
The recipient in the development division considers the change request
while referring BOM and CAD drawings. And then, the engineer decides
if the change request can be accepted, and if yes, which design objects
need to be changed
The change request has been accepted. An assigned engineer changes
design objects and BOM master date based upon the engineering change
request.
A manager verifies changed design objects and BOM master data. If
those changes are properly made, the manager approves the changes
within the development division. After approving the changes, the
manager can decide about effective-from dates
If those changes also need to be implemented in production side, similar
process happened, those should be implemented using the engineering
change order to record the change history

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