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Capture and Control Data in the Global Marketplace - "Best CM Practices" |
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Mr. David D Lyon founded the Raven Publishing
Company in 1996. He had recently written a new book, 'Practical CM: Best Configuration
Management Practices for the 21st Century’, which was being published by Butterworth
Heinemann, a member of the Reed Elsevier publishing group. The purpose of this book was to provide
detailed descriptions of the latest ‘best practices’ for the Configuration
Management discipline and to delineate specific procedures for implementing these
‘best practices’ via automated Product Data Management (PDM) and Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems. Much of Mr. Lyon’s thirty- nine (39) years as an
engineer in industry was dedicated to this area of interest. He had been responsible for
the planning, implementation and integration of one of the first successful PDM systems in
a major corporation in the United States. The book was well received around the world.
Sales were impressive. However, things were changing fast in the technological areas which
drove the designs of automated PDM and PLM systems and their interfaces with hardware and
software design tools (CAD). The current publishers would not permit updates to the book
on a yearly basis, so Mr. Lyon established the Raven Publishing Company in order to be
able to provide yearly updates to this book and those to follow and to continue his
research into this field. This endeavor worked out well for both Mr. Lyon
and his readers, since their feedback culminated in a spiral bound text, easy to read,
with pages that lie flat for reference and later the publication of paperback and hard
cover versions. It also provided the capability for Mr. Lyon to incorporate numerous
timely updates and expansion of information as it became available. The current version of
this book, 'Practical CM III: Best Configuration Management Practices for the 21st
Century', is being used in several colleges as the required text for courses on
Configuration Management in the United States and Europe. Mr. Lyon is dedicated to assuring the availablilty of Configuration Management information and 'best practice' methodology to current and future generations of Configuration Management and Project/Program Management personnel. Please feel free to contact the Raven Publishing Company via email or telephone with any questions or comments that you may have. Raven Publishing Company 163 Balance Rock Road, Pittsfield, MA Tel: 413-443-1078 email: raven@configuration.org
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