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Jamie
Good Afternoon Guys and Gals!
I feel like I've been in my own little world lately. I've completed the upgrade of my Quality System! Yaaahooooo! Since I've been living in our conference room. Yesterday I conducted a training session with the President, VP and our Management personnel and I'm hoping that someone might have some ideas that might help me out.
We get a lot of our Customer Drawings via e-mail. In our D & D procedure we've documented the process for handling and controlling these "electronic" drawings. Our Engineering Dept. uses a software, I think is called Solid Works. With it, they can open any drawings from the server and modify them. The procedure states they don't have "authority" to do that. But we all know that people tend to "not" follow them on occasion. So we have instilled a procedure where anyone receiving a drawing electronically MUST forward it to the System Admin. and delete it from their system. The System Admin. places the drawing on the server with permissions applied and no one as access to them. They have to request a copy from the Syst. Admin. which he'll stamp "Eng. Use Only". The system isn't working needless to say. The President came to me this morning and asked me to check around and see how other people are handling "Electronic Drawing Control" to see if there is a better way of doing this.
Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas or another method? Anything would be helpful. Thanks.
Can I go home and sleep now?
Jamie
I feel like I've been in my own little world lately. I've completed the upgrade of my Quality System! Yaaahooooo! Since I've been living in our conference room. Yesterday I conducted a training session with the President, VP and our Management personnel and I'm hoping that someone might have some ideas that might help me out.
We get a lot of our Customer Drawings via e-mail. In our D & D procedure we've documented the process for handling and controlling these "electronic" drawings. Our Engineering Dept. uses a software, I think is called Solid Works. With it, they can open any drawings from the server and modify them. The procedure states they don't have "authority" to do that. But we all know that people tend to "not" follow them on occasion. So we have instilled a procedure where anyone receiving a drawing electronically MUST forward it to the System Admin. and delete it from their system. The System Admin. places the drawing on the server with permissions applied and no one as access to them. They have to request a copy from the Syst. Admin. which he'll stamp "Eng. Use Only". The system isn't working needless to say. The President came to me this morning and asked me to check around and see how other people are handling "Electronic Drawing Control" to see if there is a better way of doing this.
Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas or another method? Anything would be helpful. Thanks.
Can I go home and sleep now?
Jamie