Engineering Documentation Control Handbook: Configuration Management and Product Lifecycle Management 4th Edition

This book is in excellent condition, the binding was ot broken and compared to a new book the cost was more than worth it.

I bought this so I could better identify the do's and do not's of document control. So far I am very pleased with my purchase. As with any reference material, you have to look past the examples and get to the core concepts. Only with the concepts will you be able to apply these topics to your situation. For those out there that are tasked with implementing a PDM or PLM system, I highly recommend giving this book a read, especially if your current document control methods are lacking or non-existent.

Excellent book on documentation control. Frank Watts tells you the correct way to control your documents and makes the comparison to other methods with the pitfalls of each.

I reference this book all the time. It has great insight into setting up and maintaining document control processes.

I bought this as a reference book to help resolve document control situations/issues between Engineering & Plant Manufacturing in our small company (everyone seems to have their own idea of how systems should be organized). I find for the most part the text is very understandable in it's explanations, well-organized & informative.As I read through it, the examples & information deals with documentation control across the whole product lifecycle which I hope will help to "bridge" the communication & process"gaps" in our organization & will hopefully help us to be more effective & efficient overall.

Arrived pretty faster than I thought and the item was as described

Great

The author does a great job showboating his immense knowledge in this important subject, and also with building up excitement early on with all the wonderful benefits that a good documentation control system will bring, but upon completion of this book, I just didn't see the grand utopia come together that was described early on. The sections on Bill of Materials was disappointing as well as the example engineering drawings. If I were to use the same Title Blocks shown in the book, my boss would laugh at me and as far as the BOMs, they just seem better suited to a past generation -- BOMs I am used to seeing are much more complete and descriptive than the examples here. Also, there were examples on dealing with revised circuit cards and this was just very confusing where the author makes a case of a revised card being able to work in the system it is used in. If I were to plug a revised card in the system I work on, I would cause a plane crash. Maybe other technical fields will find this book helpful, and if it helps you, that's great, but for my case working in a small R&D company, I think I'll just figure out my own system.