EngCoLab

The Engineering Collaboration Laboratory

by P&PM - Product Lifecycle & Program Manufactory

Operating procedures enable the consistent implementation of your business processes, improve your workers productivity and may also influence your product quality.

Your engineers are more and more confronted with an increased process complexity and diversity? Your engineers struggle during operations to apply the right procedure? You cannot keep track of all the diverse templates that have been established by diverse teams? Also, you have to onboard & offboard diverse Engineering partners on your company´s specific procedures?

We intend to enhance your Engineering operations and collaboration by managing standard operating procedures, work instructions, guidelines, onboarding manuals, checklists or other best practices in a central place, providing them to your engineering teams and partners for day-to-day use. By this your engineers are supported in their daily work – reusing and continuously enhancing the knowledge and best practices of your company.

Built for Engineering Collaboration

There are a few basic tools out their supporting in general the management of checklists and procedures. But none, that was specifically designed for the Engineering domain.

Supported by PLM Experts 

With our expertise from the PLM domain, we support you in integrating and deploying the application to your landscape.

Applicable Use Cases

Support Design Reviews: Manage diverse types of design reviews in a standardized way and monitor and document their execution. Collaborate on checklist items and document review results in a common way – associated with your product data. 

Milestones & Gateway: Checklists Assure the quality of milestones and gateways by providing the right routines & procedures. Monitor their coverage and persistently store the review results. 

Issue & Deviation Management: Manage issues and deviations assigned to the corresponding procedures – linked to your projects and product data. 

Accelerate onboarding of Engineering staff & Design Partners by regular work instructions Make use of dedicated procedures for onboarding to assure the right level of knowledge. Improve the know-how of your staff by sharing procedures also for occasional work. 

Provide Operating Procedures for guidance and standardizations like supplier selections, evaluations, release procedures etc. and share them across your teams. 

Manage quality checklists for diverse use cases to secure the correctness and completeness of your design work. 

…and more. 

Key Features

Management of Templates for diverse artefacts like standard operating procedures, checklists etc.
Continuous improvement of templates by collecting feedback and troubleshoots, controlled deployment of updates by version & release management
Easy retrieval of applicable procedures, checklists etc. via different search strategies like domains/topics, processes, roles or milestones
Assignment of procedures etc. to projects, product changes or product data for enhanced team collaboration
Management of issues and deviations on applied procedures
Consistent documentation of applied procedures, issues, deviations and their effective ownerships per usage
Automation of process steps based on defined procedure steps

Product Capabilities of EngCoLab

Manage Procedure Templates

Master templates for instructions, procedures, guidelines, checklists etc. and by this store your company best practices in a standardized way. 

Structure your templates per milestone, domain or project phase and make them retrievable in an easy way for day-to-day use. 

Implement sets of templates for re-occurring events like project types, gateways etc. and by this standardize the execution of your processes. 

Loop back comments and feedback on templates and continuously enhance them to create a company best practice. Steer the effectivity of updated templates by a controlled version management.

Derive Procedures from Templates

Derive specific documents from your templates and collaborate on the execution for those specific purposes like a specific design review for instance. Assign different ownerships to each document and the applicable steps and instructions within. Facilitate creation, maintenance, review and approvals of those documents in one tool.

Manage different versions of your documents if needed and store issues and deviations during the execution in case. 

Re-use your existing procedures (Documents, Tables, Presentations or any other media) and upload them to a new template for re-use. 

Track the execution of procedures via project dashboards and by this keep track of the readiness of your milestones and project steps. 

Leverage our integrated terminology management to improve the consistency of terms used along your templates. Make use of our integrations to AI based translations of texts or similarity searches to avoid unnecessary duplications. 

Leverage our automation capabilities by standardized APIs to trigger and derive relevant procedures based on defined events, for instance trigger a safety review by choosing the right template automatically.  

Integrate with PLM

Integrate documents to your product data like parts, documents or design items to establish a full traceability for the scope of the relevant documents. 

Integrate with your task management or project management tools as needed.