Change Approvals
Who has to agree, in what order. A skipped step is recorded as skipped rather than deleted — "who did NOT review this" is the question asked after a recall.
Where to find it
- Module: Manufacturing
- Group: Design
- Section: Change Control
- Screen: Change Approvals
Address in the console: /mfg/change-approvals
Read-only list · 12 columns · 1 action
This list is read-only: its records are written by the work that produces them. A correction, where one is possible at all, is made where the record was created.
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| ECO | Code | order_no |
| ECR | Code | request_no |
| Step | Number | step_no |
| Discipline | Status | discipline |
| Approver | Text | approver_name |
| Why unassigned | Text | unassigned_because |
| Decision | Status | step_status |
| Signed by | Text | signed_by_name |
| Decided | Date and time | decided_at |
| Comments | Text | comments |
| Same signer | Status | sod_flag |
| Reason for signing more than one | Text | sod_justification |
What can be corrected
The fields offered when an existing record is edited. Whether the button appears at all is decided per record — see What may be changed.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Change request | Choice | Looked up from existing records | A step stays on the change it was opened for. |
| Change order | Choice | Looked up from existing records | A step stays on the change it was opened for. |
| Step | Number | ||
| Discipline | Choice | engineering, quality, manufacturing, purchasing, costing, regulatory, safety, customer, management | |
| Person | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Or anyone holding the role | Choice | Looked up from existing records |
What you can do here
Change approver
Who signs this step
Asks for: Person Or anyone holding the role
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.