What is there today
Nothing. The change section of the navigation — My Approvals, ECRs, ECOs, Deviations, Change Calendar — leads to placeholder pages. They exist because the navigation was built for the finished module and the sections are being filled in one at a time.
Engineering change orders
This section is named in the navigation and has no behaviour behind it. Use baselines and structure compare in the meantime.
What change control would do
For clarity about what is missing rather than as a promise: change control is the process that takes a proposed change to a released product, routes it for review, records the decision, and applies it in a controlled way with an effectivity date. A change request proposes; a change order authorises and executes; a deviation permits a temporary departure without changing the design.
The reason it matters is that without it, a released structure can be edited by anyone at any time and the record of what the product used to be depends entirely on whether somebody remembered to take a baseline.
What to do in the meantime
- Baseline before and after any significant change. It is the only durable record of what a structure was. See Baselines.
- Use structure compare to produce the change list. It gives you the *what*; you supply the *why* and the *who approved it*.
- Run the approval outside the module. A work order in the Client Portal, a task in Projects, or a signed document in Sign — all of which record an approver and a date.
- Do not treat the placeholder screens as a queue. Nothing arrives in them.
A controlled design process with recorded approvals and effectivity is a hard requirement in several industries. erp.io PLM does not provide one today, and no combination of baselines and tasks is equivalent to one for audit purposes. That is a reason to choose a different tool for that part of your process, and it is better to know now.
What this does not do
Not built.
Not built.
Not built — and a prerequisite for real change control.
Not built.
Baselines are snapshots, not a controlled record.
Questions
Is there a date?
No committed date. Ask before planning around it.
Will the placeholder pages be removed?
They are being replaced section by section as each is built.
Can we get change control elsewhere in the suite?
Not equivalently. Approvals exist in other modules; controlled engineering change does not.