Document Control Procedure Examples

[Jaymeyus]

Hello All,

I work for a distributor of industrial controls, automated solutions and integration. We have recently started down the ISO registration path and have discovered that our company is rather.......challenged with document control and supporting procedures. Does anyone have a good example of a document control procedure that encompasses drawings, BOMs, purchase orders, etc. I appreciate the help.

I would imagine everyone will be seeing quite a few postings from me. We are excited about this process but have several challenges facing us in the next few months.

Thanks for the site, its nice to have a place with this much ISO knowledge and experience. Especially to help out us rookies.

[Marc]

You might want to take a minute and see some already posted, for example: Document Control procedures and related discussion threads.

[Al Rosen]

You can find some in the free files and post attachments.

[Seccleston]

Hello All,

I reviewed the referenced post above and the 'free files' and 'post attachments' links and could not find an example of a document control procedure for external documents.

There seems to be many hundreds (if not thousands) of 'free files' available, but the search function did not return any examples with 'External' in the title.

Sorry if this is a basic question (i'm a newbie here) but is there any way to find and example of a document control system for external documents available?

Ty.

[Coury Ferguson]

Originally Posted by Seccleston

Hello All,

I reviewed the referenced post above and the 'free files' and 'post attachments' links and could not find an example of a document control procedure for external documents.

There seems to be many hundreds (if not thousands) of 'free files' available, but the search function did not return any examples with 'External' in the title.

Sorry if this is a basic question (i'm a newbie here) but is there any way to find and example of a document control system for external documents available?

Ty.

Ty,

In my opinion, I would suggest using your existing Document Control Procedure (if you have one) and identify what you consider external documents. I would handle them the same way that I handle the Internal Documents. There should not be that much of a difference between handling documents of an External or Internal source.

[Al Rosen]

It's one paragraph in this procedure.

[Seccleston]

Thanks for your help guys. I gleamed some good ideas from reading the many threads and posts on this and related subjects here. I found thread 12787 (i could not include the link) very interesting and choc full of good ideas.

Despite your advise above (use what you have and the 'minimalist') we will prepare our own control of external documents procedure.