PDME — ISSUE #18 REF: 1.14.2.1.6 Assembly Model

Summary: AP203 requires a specific revision of an assembly specification to refer to specific revisions of the component parts. This structure model is intractable in a concurrent engineering work-in-progress environment, because all the parts of an assembly are undergoing simultaneous rapid versioning in each aspect of their descriptions.

This is a very important point and this discussion needs to be tied to the product"s status within an organization"s life cycle model.