TS ISO 10007

TS ISO 10007 is a quality management guideline for using configuration management within an organization. Its technical focus is the disciplined control of product, system, or service definitions across the lifecycle, so that changes are traceable, the recorded configuration remains consistent, and discrepancies between the intended and actual state can be managed.

What configuration management does in practice

In general technical terms, configuration management is a discipline used in complex engineering, software, manufacturing, and maintenance environments to make clear what items make up a configuration and what changes have been introduced over time. Core concepts such as configuration items, configuration status, change control, and traceability work together to reduce inconsistencies caused by uncontrolled or unclear modifications.

What this guideline covers

This edition of TS ISO 10007 provides guidance for the use of configuration management in an organization. It is not a product specification with numerical limits or mandatory test methods; instead, it helps explain how configuration management is understood and integrated into organizational processes. Within a quality management context, the underlying concepts are typically aligned with the terminology framework of TS EN ISO 9000.

Because the document is withdrawn, it should be regarded as a historically used reference rather than a current normative requirement. Even so, it remains useful for understanding the structured control of changes, approvals, implementation, and records that lies at the heart of configuration management.