Description / Abstract:
OVERVIEW
The overall objective of configuration management is to
guarantee the buyer that a given product is what it was intended to
be, functionally and physically, as defined by contractual drawings
and specifications, and to identify the configuration to the lowest
level of assembly required to assure repeatable performance,
quality, maintainability and reliability in all units of the same
product.
With thousand of engineering changes as normal part ;of the
development of a complex product, how can the customer and
contractor be sure that the product initially described in a
specification and contract is being delivered? Stripped to
essentials, configuration control (and Configuration Status
Accounting, CSA) directs itself at this need to know just what the
hardware, software, and supporting data (drawings, design
documents, operating manuals, repair instructions, etc.) consist of
as the project evolves with' changes that occur daily.