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Mission Critical Solutions

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For managing end-item specifications from requirements
to final approval

  • Utilize powerful web-based software to create and manage product lifecycle
    specifications
  • Increase the productivity of your teams and partners managing specifications
  • Support product specification formatting and content standards
  • Support configuration management of performance and detail specifications
  • Improve the visibility & control of specification requirements
  • Coordinate review and publishing activities internally and with the industry
  • Collaborate and manage team and contractor comments
  • Access complete specification and product data information anytime, anywhere

INTEGRATING SPECIFICATION MANAGEMENT WITH PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND FIELDING IS THE NEXT CHALLENGE

Today, Product Managers are challenged by the complexity of managing product specifications in the product development portfolio. Extensive product data is contained in spreadsheets, databases, libraries and email. This requires thousands of communications and collaboration between dispersed organizations, access and integration of multiple information systems and well-defined engineering change control processes.

With the introduction of Spec Manager, the specification coordination process is elevated to a collaborative partnership between members of the supply chain. Spec Manager™ brings together people and information and supports product development lifecycle stages and processes.

Zweave’s Spec Manager leverages the latest technology to support the creation of a spec Management Portal with powerful functional capabilities for collaboration, project management, document management, and configuration management. Spec Manager is powered by ProductionCOMM, Zweave’s collaborative portal for managing the production of clothing and individual equipment products.

Lifecycle Stages:

  • Materials Research
  • Testing Standards Research
  • Product development/Market Research
  • Authorization and Verification
  • Document Development & Coordination
  • Document Coordination
  • Comment Resolution
  • Document Management & Maintenance
  • Configuration Management of Baseline
  • Document Maintenance
  • Production Logistics

Spec Manager Features:

  • Manages specification documents at any stage of their product lifecycle
  • Collaborates real time leveraging the web through Zweave’s Spec Manager portal
  • Supports the visualization of product specifications throughout their lifecycles
  • Manages the complexity of documentation supporting requirements definition change management, versioning and publishing
  • Supports version control and manages attachments, documentation and linkages
  • Supports centralized coordination of specification changes and approvals
  • Leverages a centralized dashboard for all product definition data
  • Supports specification document libraries with powerful search and retrieval capabilities
  • Generates reports from baseline to work in progress
  • Seamlessly integration within the product development lifecycle

Spec Manager Benefits:

  • Structured and iterative Spec authoring and configuration management processes
  • Systems architecture that supports the distribution of work among all individuals with authority to review or update product specifications
  • Robust specification authoring and configuration management processes including workflow and project management
  • Integrate Military and Commercial production bases
  • Manage the iterative specification writing process, including ECP and versioning
  • Easy access with security, authentification and personalization
  • Reduce costs associated with specification management activities
  • Real time changes and waivers into latest version of specification
  • Customer friendly software as service subscription
  • Rapid technology updates of existing products
  • Decreases costs of clothing and equipment product development
  • Increases control of acquisition, RD&E and sustainement activities
  • Rapid deployment and configuration
  • Flexible Configuration options