Frank Watts is a product of a University of Illinois engineering education and over forty five years of industrial and consultation experience. He founded his own company to specialize in exceptional configuration management with specific expertise in product release, change control, change costing, field & factory retrofit and bills of material for your company and its supplier relationships.

Frank is a golfer, hiker and skier and has 26 kid-seasons of coaching kids in a variety of team sports, plus five years helping developmentally disabled kids to ski.

Experience:
Formally a Director of Engineering Services, Director of Operations and a Director of Manufacturing Engineering; he has also managed Configuration Management, Cost Estimating, Industrial Engineering, Test Engineering, Pilot Production and Repair Operations. He has contributed as a Design Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Systems Analyst and Project Manager.

Successful Projects:
Frank has guided the development of the engineering request and change control process at many companies and made significant contributions toward improving the new product/document release process, order entry process, installed MRP II systems, new numbering systems, helped companies attain a single BOM database and guided improvement of the CM processes by continuous improvement and re-invention.

Background:
His industrial experience was with Caterpillar, Collins Radio, Control Data, Storage Technology, UFE and Archive. He is currently instructing an EDC/CM course with the University of Illinois. He has given seminars to over 7000 people via university sponsored seminars. He has over 60 clients from all segments of manufacturing.

Credits:

• BSME - University of Illinois
• Graduate Studies - University of Iowa
• Over forty professional courses and seminars including teachers like Schonberger, Shingo and Costanza.
• Is an NDIA Certified Configuration and Data Manager (CCDM).

Author:

• "Engineering Documentation Control Handbook - Configuration Management for Industry" William Andrew Publishing, Second Edition 2000, 365 pages. Over 10,000 Copies Purchased
• "48 Ways to Faster Design Changes", copyright second edition 1998
• "54 Trolls Under the CM Bridge" copyright 2000
• Numerous magazine articles and white papers
• EDC / CM Benchmarking surveys

Membership: - ACDM . . . . . Past member - ASME, SAE, AIIE, ADPA, APICS

Public Seminars: Frank Watts offers his Engineering Documentation Control / Configuration Management course through the University of Illinois. You may get more information by visiting http://www.tac.uiuc.edu/training/seminars/edccm/.

Frank Watts is the instructor for:

EDC/CM - Engineering Documentation Control

EDP&C/CM - Engineering Doc Processes & Control

Design Your Own CM In-House Seminar