ECM Services
How BoostPLM can help with Engineering Change Management.
Engineering Change Management is different from company to company. Products, organisation, risks, suppliers, manufacturing setup and existing IT systems all influence what an effective process should look like.
We help technical manufacturing and service companies understand their challenges, improve their ECM practices and, where needed, implement the right technical support.
Where should you start?
There is no single correct entry point.
If you need a shared understanding
Start with the Masterclass
Build a common view of what good ECM requires and create a stronger basis for discussing improvement.
If you need to understand the gaps
Start with an Assessment
Identify strengths, weaknesses and the improvement opportunities that should receive attention first.
If the challenge is already clear
Start with Consulting
Work directly on process design, governance, impact analysis, prioritisation, planning or another defined ECM challenge.
If the process needs stronger tools
Start with IT Support
Determine how existing systems, integrations or custom development can best support the process.
LEARN
ECM Masterclass
Practical information
Time
08:30 -16:00
Location
Aarhus or Copenhagen
Date
Contact us for upcoming dates
Price
Fixed price
Included
Breakfast and lunch
The BoostPLM ECM Masterclass is a one-day course for ECM Subject Matter Experts and managers with responsibility for Engineering Change Management.
The course combines established ECM theory with BoostPLM’s practical experience from industrial companies. We look at both why effective ECM matters to the business, what a good ECM process requires, and how the principles can be applied in practice.
One full day · Fixed price
What we cover
- The purpose and business value of Engineering Change Management
- Prioritisation of Change Requests
- End-to-end impact analysis
- Detailed planning and execution
- Dependencies, critical path and competing priorities
- Line of sight from Change Request to phase-in
- How process and IT support work together
The course is not software training. Practical examples show how common PLM and ERP solutions can support different parts of the Engineering Change process.
Bring your manager
ECM specialists are often the first to recognise where the process can be improved. Bringing the responsible manager helps create a shared understanding of the challenges, priorities and opportunities for improvement.
What you take away
The objective is to give participants a common understanding of what effective ECM requires, together with practical concepts and methods that can be used to evaluate and improve their own Engineering Change process.
ASSESS
Engineering Change Assessment
Typical outcome
Where are we today?
Build a clear view of current ECM performance across cost, speed, quality and compliance.
What is missing?
Identify weak links across functions, process steps, information, responsibilities and IT support.
What should we improve first?
Prioritise the improvement opportunities that matter most.
Before changing a process or implementing new technology, it is important to understand what is actually causing the problems.
The Engineering Change Assessment gives you a clear picture of how well your current Engineering Change process works, where the missing links are, and which improvements should be addressed first.
What we assess
Cost
Are changes prioritised according to business value, risk and available capacity?
Speed
Where do changes wait, lose time or get stuck?
Quality
Are products, processes, documents and stakeholders identified before implementation?
Compliance
Does the process provide the documentation and traceability needed to support regulatory requirements?
We also identify missing links between functions, process steps, information and IT systems that make changes slower, more costly, less reliable or harder to document.
The result is a clear view of the current situation, the most important gaps and a prioritised set of improvement opportunities — so you know what to improve first and why.
IMPROVE
ECM Consulting
What we can improve together
The consulting work can focus on the parts of Engineering Change Management that create the greatest impact for your organisation.
01
Process & Governance
Process design, decision points, roles, responsibilities and governance.
02
Change Execution
Prioritisation, impact analysis, planning and cross-functional collaboration.
03
Performance & Continuous Improvement
KPIs, follow-up and a structured approach to continuous improvement.
We always start with the company’s current way of working.
Together with the relevant stakeholders, we build a clear picture of the existing Engineering Change process, identify where it works well, and understand where the main problems and gaps are.
From there, BoostPLM facilitates the definition and improvement of both the high-level ECM process and the detailed way of working.
Typical focus areas
Process phases and decision points
Roles and responsibilities
End-to-end impact analysis
Cross-functional collaboration
KPIs and follow-up
Governance and decision structures
Prioritisation of Change Requests
Detailed planning and execution
Information and traceability
Process and supporting IT systems
The objective is not to introduce a generic process model. It is to develop an ECM process that fits the company’s products, organisation, risks and existing system landscape. Where needed, we can also support implementation, adoption and further improvement of the agreed process.
ENABLE
IT support for Engineering Change Management
Typical outcome
Existing
Improve or extend current PLM / ERP support.
Connect
Integrate relevant information across systems.
Develop
Add custom functionality where needed.
ECM-Go
Use a dedicated ECM solution when it is the right fit.
Once the desired ECM process and requirements are understood, technology can make the process easier, faster and more dependable.
BoostPLM is not tied to a particular PLM or ERP vendor. We look at the customer’s existing system landscape and determine what kind of support is appropriate.
Depending on the need, this may involve configuring or adapting existing systems, connecting information across systems, developing specific functionality, implementing ECM-Go, or combining several approaches.
Possible approaches
PLM / PDM
Engineering definition
ERP / Operations
Materials, orders, supply
Integration / Custom
Cross-system support
ECM-Go
Dedicated ECM support
The objective is not to introduce another system simply for the sake of it. The technical solution should support the agreed ECM process and make information, decisions and execution easier to manage across the enterprise.
