Product Definition Management

Managing Documents

Managing new product definitions
- How does the product definition look like (cleaning phases (vessel), bill of materials, hazard statements, product characteristics, etc.)?
- Are the product definitions administrated in a software product, are there interfaces to be considered?
- How does the release procedure for product definitions work?
- Who needs to be informed about the introduction of new product definitions? How is this information flow implemented?
- How is it guaranteed that the information hereto is received well?
- Does the modification of a product definition have an impact on all resources in production? (Equipment, personnel, etc.)
- Does the new product definition have an impact on other disciplines? (e.g. maintenance, procurement, supply chain, etc.)

Managing changes to product definitions
- How does the product definition look like?
- Are the product definitions administrated in a software product, are there interfaces to be considered?
- How does the release procedure for product definitions work?
- Who needs to be informed about product definition modifications? How is this information flow implemented?
- How is it guaranteed that the information hereto is received well?
- Does the modification of a product definition have an impact on all resources in production? (Equipment, personnel, etc.)
- Is it necessary to keep old versions? (GMP production)
- Does the product definition modification have an impact on other disciplines? (e.g. maintenance, procurement, supply chain, etc.)

Providing product production rules
- How is a production rule derived from a product definition?
- Is the product definition part of the production rule?
- What does a production rule look like?
- Are the production rules administrated in a software product, are there interfaces to be considered?
- Who needs to be informed about the introduction of new production rules? How is this information flow implemented?
- How is it guaranteed that the information hereto is received well?
- How is the production rule provided to the operations personnel?
- Which assignment of production rules to personnel is allowed or restricted, respectively?

Maintaining the feasible detailed production routings for products
- Does a detailed model for production routings exist and how is it implemented in systems?
- How is it defined?
- How is it maintained?
- How is it guaranteed that modifications in production planning and production rules will be followed-up and considered accordingly?

Managing the exchange of product definition information
- Which type of information should be exchanged?
- Between which systems should information be exchanged?
- When or triggered by which event should information be exchanged?
- Which system is the leading system?

Optimizing product production rules
- Does a defined optimization process exist? (Six Sigma)
- Is it possible to measure the quality and performance of a product production rule?
- Are these optimizations typical in daily work, how often are optimizations performed? (how flexible does the system have to be or is it more suitable to perform this manually)
- Who is responsible for the optimization?

Generating and maintaining local production rule sets
- Is the production definition defined for several plants? (is this useful?)
- Which of these need to be modified specifically for each plant?
- Where are the local production rule sets managed (Batch, sequencer, parameter download, manual entry, etc.)?
- Who is responsible for the adjustment according to the local plant assignment?
- How is the consistency between local and global definition guaranteed (is there a system in place for this purpose)?

Managing the KPI definitions
- Which KPIs do exist?
- Who does define these KPIs?
- Does the definition change?
- Are there different KPIs in place for different products?
- Dependencies on equipment, production rule sets, raw materials, etc.
- Which types of definitions do exist? (qualitative, quantitative, etc.)