Express Change Package Upgrade

Earlier today I got my hands on the release package for the upgrades to our Express Change package.  This is included in the PE11R2 package (Service Pack 3 required).  This new capability adds to our already well known and used Express Change tools - Enterprise Change Order and Document Change Order.

Our customers have been asking us to include document item types in the ECO and we have responded with what we feel is a great offering.  This is built on what is our already powerful impact matrix.  This capability browses the BOM relationships of a part that is being changed and presents the user with the related parts that should be considered for impact.

What you will find in the release:

  • Ability to add documents to an ECO.  This includes those with Part Document or Part CAD relationships to the part items.
  • The Impact matrix is upgraded to browse the Part Document and Part CAD relationships to present the user with a better view of the impact from a change.  Eg. part update will present user with the related 3D model for update (Part CAD) and the related specification document for update (Part Document)
  • Ability to group impacted items to be managed together via a property in the impact matrix.
  • New change item - Enterprise Document Review (EDR) that acts in a subordinate role to the ECO.  Collects the items tagged with a group into "child" EDR(s) which will each have their own workflow.
  • Visual Management - additional color coded information to give quick feedback to the user.
I am very excited to get this release out to our customers.  This will give Product and Configuration Managers additional flexibility and capability to manage large changes and product configurations.

Contact our Community Team for more information on our subscription and upgrade processes.