Frank is a product of a University of Illinois engineering education and has over forty-eight years of industrial and consultation experience. He founded his own company to specialize in configuration management with specific expertise in the basics of product release, change control, product lifecycle management, bills of material and other Engineering Documentation Control, Configuration Management and Product Data Management issues.

Formally a Director of Engineering Services, Director of Operations and a Director of Manufacturing Engineering, Frank 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.

Frank has guided the development of the engineering change control process at many companies and made significant contributions toward improving the new product release process, installed ERP systems, new numbering systems, helped companies attain a single BOM database and guided reengineering of the CM processes.

His industrial experience was with Caterpillar, Collins Radio, Control Data, Storage Technology, UFE and Archive. He has presented seminars on the subject to over 4,000 product manufacturing people. He is an NDIA Certified Configuration and Data Manager, author of several magazine articles and author of Engineering Documentation Control Handbook (Elsevier). This book (now in the forth edition) has sold over 13,000 copies — quit counting because the publisher doesn’t count e-books. According to one reviewer, it “Sets the Stage for Innovation.” Frank has also authored CM Metrics (Elsevier) first edition published in 2009. Most recently Frank authored CM for Senior Managers.

Credits:

• Over 75 clients from all segments of product manufacturing
• BSME/IE – University of Illinois
• Graduate Studies – University of Iowa
• Over forty professional courses and seminars.
• Articles – Production and Inventory Management Journal, Midrange ERP, and the ACDM Journal. 48 Ways to Faster Design Changes, copyright 1994, second edition, 1998. 54 Trolls Under the CM Bridge, copyright 2000. Many white papers.
• Benchmarking surveys – in the EDC Handbook.
• Past member – ASME, SAE, AIIE, ADPA, APICS, ACDM.

He welcomes email and phone calls. Will offer free advice (which may be worth just that) for brief questions.