Understanding ECO Validation

Both reviewers and coordinators can review engineering change order (ECO) information. For an ECO, you can locate all of the revision-level changes made to the item. To view the most current revision information, you should run the Engineering Change Population program (R30510) daily. To help you plan and schedule work, you can search for an ECO by requested dates, start dates, and labor hours by operation. You can review ECOs and evaluate outstanding ECOs that are awaiting approval. An ECO coordinator can review ECO information to:

• Review work orders and purchase orders for affected items.

• Determine whether anyone has rejected an ECO.

• Review the progress of an ECO.

• Plan and schedule work.

• Determine who is in the process of reviewing an ECO.

• Determine who has not received notification.

You locate the ECO that awaits approval, and then indicate the approval or rejection. You can also enter text to provide more information regarding the approval.

After you locate an engineering change order (ECO) for review, you must indicate the approval or rejection. The reviewer typically performs this task. After the last person in the approval routing has approved the ECO, the system updates the status code with the value that you specify in a processing option.

To reject an ECO, use status code R to stop the notification process. After a reviewer rejects an ECO, the creator of the ECO must redefine the ECO and restart the notification process.

You can set a processing option to protect the approval field so that only the current user can change approval status.

Approval status codes are stored in UDC table 30/ST. Approval status code A is hard-coded and is the only value that initiates the notification of other review groups. You can define additional approval status codes.