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DevOps and Software Factories
Published in Yves Caseau, The Lean Approach to Digital Transformation, 2022
The automation of software production is part of an industrial approach that begins with nomenclatures and inventories.5 In the world of software factories, the founding tool for development automation processes is configuration management. In their book Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Jezz Humble and David Farley write, “Configuration management is the foundation of CICD. It is impossible to do continuous integration, automated deployment without it.” A configuration management system—CMDB (configuration management database)—contains a description of the various hardware and software components that is precise enough to be able to build or rebuild the various software systems from the elementary components. The configuration management and the code and artifact repository are carefully versioned to ensure traceability of changes and, above all, to allow easy reverting to previous situations. An essential property of an industrial software deployment process is to be able to guarantee the reproducibility of deployments, and this requires rigorous configuration management.
Evaluating Reliability Programs for Nuclear Power Plants
Published in Armand A. Lakner, Ronald T. Anderson, Reliability Engineering for Nuclear and Other High Technology Systems, 2017
In addition to auditing and evaluating the reliability aspects of the program, the effectiveness of the configuration management function must also be assessed. Configuration management is a discipline in which technical and administrative direction and surveillance are applied to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a hardware or software item that satisfies an end use function, to control changes to those characteristics and to record and report implementation status on approved changes. It is used to establish and maintain a formal set of procedures by which a uniform system of change identification, coordination, approval and status accounting is accomplished. The procedures are planned early during development and implemented later during acquisition when the system is first placed under configuration management control. Controls are defined for formal documentation (specification, plans, drawings, manuals, etc.) related to facilities, systems and equipment items and computer programs. The implementation of a well-planned properly executed configuration management function is essential to the performance of many of the elements of a reliability program (e.g. assessment, failure analysis and data recording) as well as to the effectiveness of the overall program.
Project quality management
Published in John M. Nicholas, Herman Steyn, Project Management for Engineering, Business and Technology, 2020
John M. Nicholas, Herman Steyn
Configuration management includes policies and procedures for monitoring and tracking design information and changes and ensuring that everyone involved with the project (and, later, the end-item’s operation) has the most current information. Policies and procedures that form the configuration management system for a project should be included in the quality plan. As with all procedures, the best configuration management system is whatever permits the desired level of control and is the simplest to implement. The two main aspects of configuration management are configuration identification and configuration control.
Examples of performance requirement derivation through modelling and simulation in complex projects
Published in Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, 2023
Garth De Visser, Stephanie Knight
Systems engineering centres around key technical activities including stakeholder identification, system scoping and boundary definition, interface definition and external relationship identification, stakeholder needs elicitation, the development of system employment scenarios and concepts of operation, and system requirements derivation and management. Systems engineering technical activities are organised within project management activities including the setting, maintaining and managing of task breakdowns, schedules, budgets, and resources. Artefacts generated throughout the systems engineering process are controlled under configuration management practices to capture baselines throughout the maturation of the design, typically at review milestones. Candidate design concepts developed through the systems engineering process are evaluated through trade studies and sensitivity analyses to address stakeholder needs. Systems engineering methodology proceeds from design, through implementation, including integration, testing and evaluation, and also covers planning and oversight of end-of-life disposal (INCOSE 2015; Madni and Sievers 2018).
Status of engineering change management in the engineer-to-order production environment: insights from a multiple case study
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2020
Natalia Iakymenko, Anita Romsdal, Erlend Alfnes, Marco Semini, Jan Ola Strandhagen
Computer-based tools to support ECM range from dedicated ECM systems developed by academia or industry (Chen et al. 2015; Sivanathan, Ritchie, and Lim 2017) to large, commercially available configuration management systems (Whyte, Stasis, and Lindkvist 2016), as well as Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems (Wu et al. 2014; Do 2015). Such systems are used to track and document changes throughout the product lifecycle, support EC-related documentation flow, capture and reuse knowledge on ECs, support inter- and intra-company communication and collaboration on ECs, and virtually test products under occurring changes.
Characteristics of changeable systems across value chains
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2021
Tariq Masood, Maximilian Kern, P. John Clarkson
Wu et al. (2014) combined product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise resource planning perspectives (Rashid et al. 2018) to form an engineering change management framework based on configuration management. However, Singh, Misra, and Chan (2020) highlighted that PLM concept has not been properly institutionalised in manufacturing organisations.