Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Management of Field Replaceable Units (FRU)

For the inventory controller, manufacturing, and document change control, field replaceable units (FRUs) are evil. Added SKUs, additional space requirements, documentation management, and possible disruptions to normal manufacturing flow are problems. To the field service personnel, the FRU is a time saving, frustration reducing, wonderful thing, when configured properly. When considering equipment that demands high availability, FRUs can effectively reduce