Change Management
Growth, cost reduction, new technologies, domestic competition, specification changes due to customer requests and quality improvement, were the top six drivers of change in Zuken’s customer base surveyed over the past years.
Change Management support across the engineering process enables users to communicate individually with related teams, projects, designs, components or even across disciplines. It closes the loop on workflows by automatically notifying the relevant people, technologists or change groups and then provides them with acknowledgement and confirmation of the receipt of changes.
To support this change management workflow, the new process directly notifies all persons/groups directly or indirectly impacted of product changes and discontinuations, so the information can be promptly passed on to initiate action. Ultimately, this change management solution helps to significantly reduce cycle times and lessen chances of missing change notices.
Customers who implemented Zuken’s change management solution achieved a prompt notification of all product changes and scheduled product retirements so they will experience fewer problems during their design and purchasing stages, fewer 'line down' delays during their manufacturing stage and faster time-to-market schedules for their products.