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Configuration Management - lecture 6b:

CM & variants + CM & PDM

Literature

  • Axel Mahler: Variants: Keeping Things Together and Telling Them Apart.
    Read this paper and appreciate that even though the abstract principle is simple, variants in real life are rather complex beasts.
  • Asklund et al: Product Data Management and SCM - Similarities and Differences, ch. 2 & 4.
    Read the extracts from this report and reflect on the potential consequences of the similarities and differences between PDM and SCM.

Lecture summary

  • SCM & variants
  • variant representation
  • managing and using variants
  • Product Data Management
  • PDM & SCM - similarities and differences
  • PDM and SCM integration

Quote of the day

I used to keep an open mind, but people kept throwing rubbish in it. (Anonymous)



Updated November 24, 2005