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Configuration Management (CM) was developed in the 1960s in the military field. In all CM standards, it is required, amongst other things, that the physical product (the so called "as-built" configuration) must match 100%  with the product definition (-documentation). Today CMII is the standard for enterprise-wide CM.

The main task of traditional CM is to prove conformity, i.e. that the product actually conforms to the design. Similarly it is expected that the design is an exact description of the product.

Most organisations have problems with this - physical products and the product design do not always match. The couse of this are the many changes to the products and the design and a slow and cumbersome change process. On looking more closely into most organisations there are many different change processes - the whole thing gets out of control.

Such problems when dealing with changes have existed for decades and many process improvement initiatives e.g. Six Sigma, CMMI etc. have not changed this very much.

In light of this, the Institute of Configuration Management has developed an expanded CM version called CMII. The detailed design of a product will only then begin when the so-called Design basis is defined, on the basis of which a Physical Item Hierarchy (PIH) will be established. Detailed information from Engineering, process requirements from Production Planning, Requirements from Purchasing - the PIH is used by all affected areas as a unified repository and planning structure.

The task of CMII is more than "only" proof of conformity: Continual conformity of the products with the requirements and their continual improvement. This can be reached by an efficient and fast change process with which the dynamics of a business will be encouraged and not hindered.

This process is used " from cradle to grave", also often called E2E (end-to-End). Ideally including the administration of the business's cross-product information.

You are "killing two birds with one stone" by training and becoming a CMII professional:

• you are getting a comprehensive training in the subject of CMII (what is CMII, why CMII, who is involved?) 
• you are also getting practical and directly applicable methods of effciently impelmenting CM in your organisation (How to do CMII)