# Configuration Management

## Introduction

Configuration Management (CM) is a discipline providing technical and organisational directions and monitoring for the whole process from product development to the later stages like maintenance and service.

CM is the approach to enable compliance with standard engineering practices, such as:

- Controlling documents and engineering data to ensure that only one, correct version of the information being viewed is registered, tagged and classified appropriately; and,
- Complying with Department of Defence (DoD) ordinances that state that the only acceptable method for delivery of design data is via compliance to MIL-STD-2549, Configuration Management Data Interface and its successor, EIA-836, Industry Consensus Standards for Data Interoperability and Configuration.

CM is structured into

- Configuration Identification
- Configuration Control
- Configuration Status Accounting
- Configuration Auditing.

Oracle's Agile PLM solution including CM allows engineering data to be used throughout the extended enterprise to improve the operational efficiencies of the product development process, enabling organizations to focus on innovative product design, participate in collaborative product development, and ensure precision manufacture of quality complex products.