Re: Engineering Change Request/Order (ECR/ECO) or Document Change Request/Order (DCR/
I have been the Doc Control Manager at a few medical device companies. Documents and data go together. If you have a drawing change it very likely affects component specifications which are documents. We also consider the drawing a document as well. Most engineering changes are going to affect documents of some sort. There are also QMS documentation changes. We just started calling them "change orders" which encompasses everything.
I work for a mid-sized medical device manufacturer and am the sole documentation specialist for the organization. We have a difference of opinion on whether our change control documents should be called Engineering Change Request/Order (ECR/ECO) or Document Change Request/Order (DCR/DCO).
The rationale for ECO is that it seems to be the familiar term used by larger medical device companies while the DCO would be more appropriate for changes made outside the engineering area, such as Marketing, Finance, etc. which have nothing to do with Engineering.
Is one more appropriate than the other for a Medical Device Manufacturer? We are currently using ECO and all our documentation references that.
Thank you.
The rationale for ECO is that it seems to be the familiar term used by larger medical device companies while the DCO would be more appropriate for changes made outside the engineering area, such as Marketing, Finance, etc. which have nothing to do with Engineering.
Is one more appropriate than the other for a Medical Device Manufacturer? We are currently using ECO and all our documentation references that.
Thank you.