CERC Technical Report Series

Technical Memoranda

CERC-TR-TM-92-15

The Role of Configuration Management Systems in a Concurrent

Engineering Environment

Takumei So

V. Jagannathan

Ravi S. Raman.

November 1992

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This effort has been sponsored by Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA972-91-J-1022 for DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE).

Concurrent Engineering Research Center

West Virginia Univeraisity

Drawer 2000, Morgantown WV 26505
Acknowledgment: This effort has been sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA972-91-J-1022 for the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering.

The Role of Configuration Management Systems

in a Concurrent Engineering Environment

Takumei So, V. Jagannathan, and Ravi S. Raman.

Concurrent Engineering Research Center

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV.

Abstract:

Configuration Management systems facilitate the configuration and version control operations associated with the information pertaining to each release of a product. Such systems are critical components of any concurrent engineering environment inasmuch as they manage the complexity of the information (like specifications, design files, test results, documentation, engineering change orders) and also its dynamics.