Engineering Change Management
Engineering Change Management

Change. Controlled.
Impact. Analyzed.

Engineering Change Request workflow with impact analysis across BOMs, recipes, customer specs, in-flight production. Approval routing, version control, effective dating. The right way to change product definitions.

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ECR

workflow

Impact

analyzed

Multi-tier

approval

Effective

dating

How It Works

ECR Lifecycle

RequestECR initiated
Impactanalysis
Tech Review+ feasibility
Biz Approvalmulti-tier
Implementeffective date
Verifyeffectiveness
ECR Workflow
ECR Workflow

ECR Workflow

Request. Review. Implement.

Engineering Change Requests flow from initiation through impact analysis, technical review, business approval, implementation, and verification. Every step audited; no shortcuts.

  • Initiation by any authorized user
  • Mandatory impact analysis
  • Technical + business review
  • Multi-tier approval routing
  • Implementation tracking
  • Verification of effectiveness
Impact Analysis
Impact Analysis

Impact Analysis

What breaks if we change this?

Automated impact analysis — which BOMs reference this material, which products use this recipe, which customer specs are affected, which in-flight WOs need updates.

  • Forward impact tree
  • Backward dependency tree
  • Cost impact estimation
  • Customer notification list
  • In-flight transaction list
  • Risk classification (high/med/low)
Effective Dating
Effective Dating

Effective Dating

When does the change kick in?

Every change has an effective date range. In-flight transactions keep their original version; future transactions get the updated version. No retroactive surprises.

  • Effective date per change
  • Per-record version snapshots
  • In-flight transaction preservation
  • Future-dated change preview
  • Rollback if change fails
  • Audit log of every version

Every Feature

Complete capability matrix.

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Preview — available on requestRoadmap — planned within 12 months
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ECR Workflow

Structured Engineering Change Request workflow from request to verification. Every change goes through the right gates; no quiet edits to master data.

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Impact Analysis

Auto-trace which BOMs, recipes, products, customer specs, and in-flight transactions are affected by a proposed change. See the blast radius before approving.

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Effective Dating

Changes don't happen instantly — they have effective from/to dates. In-flight WOs see old version; new WOs see new version. Cleanly handles transitions.

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Multi-Tier Approval

Technical review by engineering, business approval by sales/operations, customer notification if specs change. Configurable per change type.

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Risk Classification

Auto-classify changes by risk — material change to a flagship grade is high-risk; cosmetic packaging change is low. Approval rigor matches risk.

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Rollback Support

If a change degrades quality or cost, rollback to the previous version is one click. Affected WOs auto-update.

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Change Documentation

Every change requires reason, supporting documents, validation evidence. ISO 9001 / IATF 16949 audit-ready.

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Audit Trail

Every ECR tracked from initiation to verification — who proposed, who approved, when implemented, whether effective. Complete history.

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Customer Notification

When customer-spec-affecting changes are approved, customers in scope are auto-notified. No surprises in their incoming shipments.

Integrations

Works with everything else.

Every ECM action flows into the other modules — no manual data re-entry, no reconciliation pain.

ECM→Product Catalog

Change → product update

Versioned with audit

ECM→Recipe Dev

Recipe change → ECR

Trial + commercial flow

ECM→Production

Effective date → WO version

In-flight WOs preserved

ECM→Sales

Customer spec change → notify

Customer auto-informed

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