Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1700885 | Procedia CIRP | 2013 | 4 Pages |
Digital technologies are radically transforming project delivery, breaking the mould of 1960s approaches to enable more rapid and agile forms of organizing. Yet the use of large digital data-sets also requires new forms of control. This study compares the leading practices of managing change in digitally-enabled projects in Airbus, CERN and Crossrail. It focuses on configuration management, the process of maintaining system integrity while handling change to both the digital data-set and the related real- world engineering systems. The contribution is to explain: first, why configuration management has become more, rather than less, important in complex engineering in an era of ‘big data’; and second, how approaches to configuration management are shaped by these industrial contexts of civil engineering, nuclear research and aerospace. The paper concludes by considering the implications for managing digitally-enabled projects.