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Well, I've been gleaning information from all of you over the past year or so and now I am finally compelled to introduce myself and ask for help. Thanks by the way; you have all been a huge help.
Without any prior ISO 9000 knowledge, I have been put in charge of developing the QMS for our 30 employee machine shop where we make everything: manual one-piece items, high-run CNC productions, design and build machinery, and even the occasional custom gate for the neighbor down the road or the new cross for the local church! Needless to say, it's been quite a task. Miraculously we are really putting this thing together and plan to be ready for the registrar by the YE.
But, here is one of my stumbling blocks: We have literally thousands of CNC set-up sheets we use to run parts for a variety of long term customers (20+ years). These sheets define the programming for the machine as well as the tooling and manual set-up guidelines. They are ALL hand written and marked up from years of use and modifications. Part of our continual improvement effort has been to purchase programming software and have our programmer update all the programs, route them directly to the machines and revise and control all the sheets. However, the real world dictates that parts need to go out the door when the customer requests them. We can't hold up a job if the programmer is backed up and the marked up sheet that has always been used without any problem is available to get the job done. It will be a solid year of concerted effort (and then some) before all these sheets are cleaned up and controlled.
On a daily basis, these old sheets are in use at almost every CNC machine (about 30) in or shop. Until the update of all set-up sheets is complete, what can I do (what to I HAVE to do) to control them without distrupting production?
Without any prior ISO 9000 knowledge, I have been put in charge of developing the QMS for our 30 employee machine shop where we make everything: manual one-piece items, high-run CNC productions, design and build machinery, and even the occasional custom gate for the neighbor down the road or the new cross for the local church! Needless to say, it's been quite a task. Miraculously we are really putting this thing together and plan to be ready for the registrar by the YE.
But, here is one of my stumbling blocks: We have literally thousands of CNC set-up sheets we use to run parts for a variety of long term customers (20+ years). These sheets define the programming for the machine as well as the tooling and manual set-up guidelines. They are ALL hand written and marked up from years of use and modifications. Part of our continual improvement effort has been to purchase programming software and have our programmer update all the programs, route them directly to the machines and revise and control all the sheets. However, the real world dictates that parts need to go out the door when the customer requests them. We can't hold up a job if the programmer is backed up and the marked up sheet that has always been used without any problem is available to get the job done. It will be a solid year of concerted effort (and then some) before all these sheets are cleaned up and controlled.
On a daily basis, these old sheets are in use at almost every CNC machine (about 30) in or shop. Until the update of all set-up sheets is complete, what can I do (what to I HAVE to do) to control them without distrupting production?
