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Re: Our people don't need to read manuals or procedures and document changes to them
We have procedures for all that stuff now, so the Auditor can audit us. We know what we are doing...WE WROTE THE PROCEDURE!! and it will sit on the shelf until our next audit..OH unless we have to do something a little differently...then we get to revise the procedure. OH GREAT!
YOUR RIGHT...
Were too smalll we don't have a document control guy...well I mean that's me...along with my other responsiblities.
The QC guy keeps track of it. I also know the schedule and system along with the Shop Super, President of company...We're not a large company...but were good.
That's fine. A lot of Aerospace types will agree with you. Risk assesment - what's that?? You mean when the material specified by our customer doesn't machine as they expected. We call them so we can figure out what steps need to be taken to correct or rethink what was specified by our customer. We do proto type work so it happens sometimes..It's the first time it's been made. We rely on every employee - together we make a whole.
No production line here Bub, were highly skilled Toolmakers in a job shop.
Valley Girl,
You are talking AS9100, so I safely can assume you are an Aerospace company.
Do you have any procedures for record keeping, Material issue, Calibration, and document control? (Just to name a few). Or are all of your office personnel are highly knowledgeable also, and know exactly what to do?!
You are talking AS9100, so I safely can assume you are an Aerospace company.
Do you have any procedures for record keeping, Material issue, Calibration, and document control? (Just to name a few). Or are all of your office personnel are highly knowledgeable also, and know exactly what to do?!
I am not talking about a CNC machinist, a tool and die maker, or a laser programmer. These trades can not be learned from a procedure. !
But a new Documet control guy can read your company procedure for document control, and can function the next day. !
What if your tool calibration guy dies tomorrow? How does the next guy you hire know what needs to be calibrated, what intervals, what spec and how? !
"I don't care what kind of parts you make, and how good the parts are. I wouldn't place an order with such a company, who does not make a risk assessment, and relies heavily on certain employee knowledge. "!
This is exactly like saying you have the best production machine in the world, but you only have one machine, and no backup program. I would never risk my parts and production line on your one machine.
I'm kidding about the owners manual.