It has an
ISO program in place for the hardware manufacturing activities that is part of its
standard quality process that has been going on for five years managed by the vice
president of quality. The company began a systems engineering process improvement
activity two years ago using the Systems Engineering Capability Model (EIA/
IS 731) and it has an Engineering Process Improvement Group (EPIG) that is sponsored
by the director of engineering. The chairman of the EPIG is a member of the
SEPG and the chairman of the SEPG is a member of the EPIG. Training comes
from two sources??”a Software Training Group and an organizational-level training
function within the human resource department.
Approach: Road Runner Industries has defined its organizational scope for the
CMMI initiative to include all of engineering (systems, software, mechanical, electrical,
and avionics), training department, quality assurance, and purchasing. As
part of the new initiative they have merged the SEPG and EPIG into a new group
named the Engineering Process Group (EPG) and expanded its charter to cover all
of engineering and purchasing plus related quality assurance functions.
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