We at Dolby have been using Agile for the past 4 years and overall have been very pleased with it. We have manufacturing sites in the UK and California and a separate Engineering site in Califorinia. We work it real-time across a WAN and it has been immensely useful for the control and dissemination of Engineering and Manufacturing data at all levels of product manufacture and development. Our previous change control system was basically a manual system aided by email, fax and WAN access to (CAD) data on remote servers. Agile has certainly pulled it all together. The only real downsides we have found are: there are upgrades from Agile every six months which require full re-installs for all users. If the main server gets upgraded then all users companywide have to upgrade. access on the far end of a WAN away from the main Agile server is noticeably slower than for users local to the server and can be frustrating if you use the system a lot. However this is really down to the bandwidth of the link. Chris James Engineering Services Manager Dolby Labs Inc. Wootton Bassett - Wiltshire - SN4 8QJ -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Wiseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:55 AM To: 'Grant, Tania (Tania)'; [email protected] Subject: RE: Global Engineering Change Process
I found the website for it. http://www.agilesoft.com <http://www.agilesoft.com> It appears that you can find out about the software here. You can always go to the contact page and email or call someone for more details on the software. We use the Agile Anywhere package here. Josh Joshua Wiseman Product Safety/EMC Printronix [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Grant, Tania (Tania) [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:17 PM To: [email protected]; Joshua Wiseman Subject: RE: Global Engineering Change Process Josh, Thank you. Never heard of Agile. Can you share with us who the creator is; hopefully this is not a custom product. Tania Grant, [email protected] < mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Lucent Technologies, Intelligent Network Unit Messaging Solutions Group ---------- From: Joshua Wiseman [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Global Engineering Change Process Joe, Here at my company we use a program by the name of Agile. All "ECO's, CCR's, Deviation's, Stop Ships, and so on" are done through this program. The nice part about the program is that it is pretty versatile in that every change goes through the same group or board. It doesn't matter if the change is originated in the here in Ca., Singapore, or Holland. You can import drawing files from Pro E or a scanned image from a basic photo editor. All spec sheets, drawings, BOM redlines are added to the change and submitted to the board for review. Once implemented the Quality department has the responsibility of ensuring proper installation of the most current parts and Revs. It has worked well for the last 5 years or so. Regards, Josh -----Original Message----- From: John Juhasz [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 10:56 AM To: '[email protected]'; [email protected] Subject: RE: Global Engineering Change Process Joe, I too would like to hear an answer on this subject as well . . . I have 'sister' companies that manufacture some or all of some of my products and I would like to know how other compliance engineers cope . . . John Juhasz Product Qualification & Compliance Engr. Fiber Options Bohemia, NY -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> < mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > ] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 12:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Global Engineering Change Process Associates, The following subject is not related to our normal subject matter, however, I am hoping that some of you can provide me with some useful information for establishing a global engineering change order process. Several years ago, we were a small company with all business activities located on one campus. The Engineering Change Order process was a simple one. Now, we have manufacturing facilities all over the world that are supported by engineering services in different locations. We have many joint ventures and collaborations with other companies where they build a product, yet we provide engineering support. I am sure that many of you belong to companies that are in this same situation. How do your companies deal with the Engineering Change process? All responses are appreciated. Regards Joe Martin EMC/Product Safety Engineer P.E. Biosystems ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
