Product Engineering - Engineering Change Management

How To : Submit an Engineering Change Request

Once approved the ECR can be send to Engineering. The simple way is to print the ECR and manually deliver it to the Engineering the department. The Lifecycle also provides a trigger which can be picked up by one of the Engineering Change Management Connections to make an electronic delivery.
To maintain the Connection

1. Type Engineering Change Management Connections in the Search box.
2. Select the ECM-ECR connection and double click to open or select Edit from the ribbon.
3. The connection has 3 Elements:
   • The WORKFLOWEVENT selects the workflow and workflow state which should trigger the connection. In this example 40-PROCESS is selected.
   • The XMLGENERATOR creates an XML file from the current record of the ECR table. The fields in the file are specified in the ECM-ECR Document.
   • The FILEWRITER writes the generated file to a specified location on the network. The file name is generated and can be configured.

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Engineering Change Management