Unversioned
Nobody can say which spec is current
Drawings and specifications live in folders with names like final-2, so two departments build to different ones.
Product Lifecycle Management
Change the Spec Once, and Tell Everyone Who Needs to Know
Controlled versions with the reason behind each, change requests that state their impact before anyone approves them, and a dated change order that reaches every affected department at the same time.
- Controlled versions
- Impact before approval
- Audit-ready trail
One version is current
No more building to two different specs.
Impact stated first
The approver decides with the consequences in view.
A change with a date
Stores can run old material down on purpose.
Everyone told at once
Notification comes from the record, not from memory.
A product change is rarely the hard part. Telling everyone is.
Three gaps account for most of the disruption a change causes, and none of them is an engineering problem.
Unassessed
The change was approved, then understood
What it would cost production, purchasing and stores was worked out after the decision, not before it.
Uncoordinated
Half the plant heard about it
The change went live on a date some teams knew and others did not, so old stock kept being used.
Neome closes all three by controlling the version, assessing the impact before the decision, and dating the instruction that follows.
Versions
One current version, and a reason for every one before it
Each product carries controlled version numbering, with the change reason recorded against the version it produced and the approval that released it. That turns a version number from a label into a record, so the question of why the spec changed has an answer after the person who changed it has moved on.
- Controlled numbering
- Change reason recorded
- Approval before release
Change requests
Write down the impact before anyone decides
A change request names an owner and states what it would do to production, purchasing, stores and quality before it goes for approval. The approver is then deciding with the consequences in front of them, which is the difference between a considered change and one that is understood in the weeks after it lands.
- Named owner
- Impact assessed upfront
- Standard workflow
Change orders
An approved change becomes a dated instruction
Approval issues an engineering change order carrying the implementation date and the person responsible for carrying it out. A date on the record is what lets stores run old material down deliberately rather than discovering the switch when a batch is rejected.
- Issued on approval
- Implementation date
- Named owner for execution
Coordination
Every affected department hears it at the same time
Departments touched by a change are notified when the order is issued rather than told by whoever remembers. Because the notification comes from the record, the teams working to the old spec and the teams working to the new one are not the same teams by accident.
- Automatic notification
- Cross-team visibility
- One implementation date
Reporting
See what is changing, and what is waiting
Set a date range and every figure below it is bounded by those dates.
Active changes
What is in flight?
Every open change request and change order with its stage, owner and implementation date, so nothing is in progress unnoticed.
Pending approvals
What is waiting on whom?
Requests sitting for a decision, with how long they have waited, so a change is not held up by an inbox.
Version history
How did we get here?
Version distribution across products and the full history behind any one of them, with the reason and the approver on each step.
All the features, done right
Version control
Controlled numbering per product.
Version history
Reason and approver on every step.
Change requests
Standardised, with an owner.
Impact analysis
Assessed before the decision.
Approval workflow
A version releases only on a yes.
Change orders
Issued when the change is approved.
Implementation date
Dated, so teams can plan around it.
Department notification
Everyone affected, at the same time.
Cross-team visibility
Who is doing what, and by when.
Dashboards
Active changes and pending approvals.
Traceability
An audit reads the chain, not the folder.
Role-based access
Product, operations and admin scopes.
Before you move your change control across
The questions engineering and operations teams ask before the first change request is raised in Neome.
What it costs
One price, and Product Lifecycle Management is already in it
₹299/ user / month$9.99/ user / month
There is no separate charge for this module. The same per-user price covers Product Lifecycle Management and the other 25+ modules, so adding a second or third one costs nothing extra.
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