Our company has a series of controlled documents that right now, only one person can print. They are viewable on a PC as *.pdf documents. Some people (including me!) want to have the ability to print and use these documents with people in production, who do not have access to PCs, but need the documents to do their work correctly. (I know... why have a controlled document that the appropriate people cannot view??

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Everyone,
after read every single post I think Holly 21 have a solution without start a war against the management. It is a hard situation if we just see it from the statement stand point (Controlled document). I want to share something that I am sure everyone of us have experiencing along your career.
Operation people do not have time to read documents. Based on this fact what do you will need documents at production floor?.:mg:
"How do other companies manage this? Any ideas would be appreciated and I thank whomever has read this entire thing and takes the time to reply"
Possible Solution: You can implant visual controls at every station that needs something special to care of (Machine setting, paterns to compare attributes, visual marks on gauges, etc). Visuals are understood almos in every lenguage and are easier to deploy, helps training, and are removable and updateable without too much protocol. You just need to place a Reference only ink mark (If you want to be very ortodox).
Documents or procedures must describe the way to set something at some value, the visuals helps people to keep the gauge at that mentioned value. I hope you understand my rough English and also hope my comments help you.
"The executive branch of my company does not want to have copies of these documents on the manufacturing floor because they want to know how we can control keeping the most current versions in place. If hard copies exist, anyone can make copies of them so we wouldn't always know how many people had copies of the documents. We do not have a dedicated document control person for this sort of task. "
That is what management is expecting from coaches.
Hae a nice one.
