Research Of A Company Engineering Change Management Improvement

Today, the globalization and informatization are in the stage of rapid development, and China’s manufacturing industry is also facing unprecedented pressure. On the one hand, the global manufacturing, movement of goods and consumption make the manufacturing, circulation and consumption market is no longer a single local area market. China’s manufacturing enterprises and foreign companies in China are gradually migrating to foreign countries with manufacturing cost advantages; the globalization of consumer market has also increased competition between manufacturers. On the other hand, the informatization makes all kinds of information more transparent and accessible, and it helps consumers choose the products or services that meet their requirements. Therefore, switching from simplification to diversification is the biggest test that manufacturing enterprises are facing, on-demand production will become an important way for future manufacturing. The diversity and personalized needs on product from consumers requires diversified product design, product change is inevitable and product manufacturing process is also changing accordingly. Thus engineering change has been becoming an important part of configuration management. How enterprises make quick and efficient engineering change when facing the rapid changing market and customer demand?Based on the theory of product life cycle management and configuration management, this thesis gives the study on A company’s engineering change management system. It mainly analyzes the characteristics of A company’s existing engineering change management system, the current situation and existing problems, and finds out the root causes of these problems.Then this thesis states how to improve A company’s engineering change management system in order to make the engineering change more efficient, it sets up the improvement objectives and figure out the improvement measures against these improvement objectives, it also makes some necessary improvement and design on A company’s engineering change management system. It helped A company to achieve quick product changes and rapid response to market and customer needs, to improve quality, to improve products and to gain market share quickly. At the end, based on the experience of improving engineering change management system of A company, this thesis provides general engineering change management system suggestion to similar manufacturing enterprises to show its generality, helps enterprises to improve the ability of product change management and the ability to adapt to market demand changes.