External engineering change order

Engineering

Automate your external engineering change order process

Many engineering changes must be communicated to a broad range of stakeholders both inside the organization and across the supply chain. When non-engineers are involved, the process is often labor intensive, paper laden, and error prone. Manufacturers need to streamline and automate the ECO/ECN review and sign-off process. They are looking for real-time visibility and increased efficiency to reduce the cost of making changes so that they can bring products to market more quickly.

Benefits

Faster ECOs/ECNs with improved collaboration between engineering and the extended community, inside the company and across the supply chain.
Reduced sensitive information theft due to better security outside the firewall
Fewer errors with version control of the ECO/ECN packages outside the firewall
More integrated processes and increased efficiencies due to reduced dependency on paper
Better long-term archiving, compliance, and auditability by replacing paper with digital documents

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EECO solution brief (PDF, 291K)

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Why Adobe

Adobe solutions extend manufacturers' existing PLM/PDM applications to non-engineers within the enterprise and outside the firewall, enabling companies to control and manage external ECO/ECN processes across the supply chain, improving efficiency and speed and controlling change order costs.