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QualityClimber
We are a licensed medical device manufacturer and ISO 13485 compliant company. We have been debating the definitions of "inactive documents" vs "obsolete documents". How do my fellow Covers define these? How do you differentiate the two? Do you handle them differently?
Our issue is this: Thru the regular document control procedures, old/previous revisions of documents are moved from the current document store to an archive file. We think of these as "obsolete." However, there are documents in the current document store, that have become inactive for some reason. For example, an assembly instruction for an item we aren't currently manufacturing and we are not likely to make this item again.
Thanks and I look forward to your take on this!
Our issue is this: Thru the regular document control procedures, old/previous revisions of documents are moved from the current document store to an archive file. We think of these as "obsolete." However, there are documents in the current document store, that have become inactive for some reason. For example, an assembly instruction for an item we aren't currently manufacturing and we are not likely to make this item again.
Thanks and I look forward to your take on this!