THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT ON THE SHIP ON-BOARD WATER DISTILLATION INSTALLATIONS

 

Carmen GASPAROTTI

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Abstract: The formal change control method within a project, known as the configuration management, is intended to allow changes on all engineering levels. Practically, the term of configuration management itself means the application of management methods in order to maintain the coherence of the systems and their components, when certain parts of the systems are affected by various changes. In other words, it is the identification method of the configuration of a system at given time intervals, aiming at systematically controlling the changes incurred by such configuration and keeping its integrity, besides the possibility to monitor this configuration during the entire lifetime of the respective system.

In this work, the advantages of applying the configuration method of the on-board water distillation installation were tracked, this installation being used for removing the salt from seawater, in case of replacing the evaporator-heating agent.

 

Key words: configuration management, configuration control, configuration status records, configuration auditing, engineering elements, configuration elements.