Change Management Identities

Aras Product Engineering has built-in Group Identities that hold specific permissions: control Workflows of specific Items, Item creation, Item access, etc. These Identities and their Roles are based on the CMII standards. These Identities are:

• CM group—the Configuration Management group—consists of CSI, CSII, and CSIII:

  • CSI—Change Specialist I—the person who drives the change process in a company. The CSI determines who is technically responsible for problem verification, which changes have higher priority than others, whether an ECR (Engineering Change Request) can be approved through a fast track or if it needs review board involvement. The CSI is also responsible for determining if the required change has a wide impact and can bring others into the review process.
  • CSII—Change Specialist II—the person who completes the change process in a company. The CSII decides when approved changes get implemented, when actual items get changed, and if any requests can be combined into a single change notice.
  • CSIII—Change Specialist III—the person who implements the change in the production process of an affected item. The CSIII decides when the change goes into production and how it affects the existing production flow. By default, CSIII is active in a Change Management Workflow during the last phases of an ECN (Engineering Change Notice).
• CRB—the Change Review Board—the people responsible for several steps in the ECR process. When an ECR has wide or complex implications, the CRB is engaged to review the change and provide input into the process.
• Component Engineering—the people responsible for managing the Parts that a company uses as well as the sourcing aspects of these Parts: Manufacturers, Vendors, and the Lifecycles associated with these Items.
• All Employees—the employees of the company.
• All Customers—the customers of the company.
• All Suppliers—the suppliers that a company uses.