Gimmi Filice

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Mechatronics and Motion Control September 1, 2005

Change Management for Consistency, Compliance

When it comes to process-oriented manufacturing, change can happen quickly. Here's a common scenario: The master program for a plant floor controller resides on a floppy disk stored in an engineer's desk. A technician—not knowing where to find the master copy of the controller code—attempts a download to the controller from the copy residing on his laptop computer.

By Gimmi Filice