In-depth analysis tagged configuration management — covering PLM history, vendor strategy, and the technical decisions reshaping engineering software.
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A configuration audit is an evaluation process that verifies the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of product configurations within a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, ensuring compliance with design intent, regulatory requirements, and business rules. It involves checking the integrity of product data, identifying discrepancies, and making necessary corrections to maintain a reliable and up-to-date configuration management record.
In Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), a Configuration Baseline is a predefined set of product parameters, specifications, and attributes that serve as a reference point for changes to a product's design or configuration. It ensures consistency and accuracy across the product development process by providing a single source of truth for product information.
Configuration Management (CM) is the engineering discipline that identifies, documents, controls, and audits the configuration of a product across its lifecycle—establishing and maintaining product baselines and governing the process by which changes are assessed, approved, and incorporated.
The process of controlling modifications to product designs, BOMs, and manufacturing plans — including impact assessment, approval routing, and propagation to downstream systems like ERP and MES.
Variant management is the discipline of defining, controlling, and tracing the differences between product configurations—typically handled by PLM systems through effectivity rules, options, and feature models.
