Re: Personal Notes on Production Floor
Excellent post. I have 2 schools of thoughts.
1st - At some point auditors need to relax a little and evaluate if the process is being executed in the proper manner as prescribed in the procedure and not worry about tic-tack stuff. As stated in a prior post, as long as you could show me the process is effective and compliant to your procedures, and how changes to the relevant procedure would be communicated to ensure the operator is made aware, probably no problem. If it adds value with little or no risk, whats the problem?
2nd - Along the lines of the procedure not being clear, or saving time flipping thru a binder looking for work instructions, lets see what AS9100 has to say:
4.2.3 d. "To ensure that relevant versions of applicable documents are available at points of use".
Are they? If so, and you can prove effective document change control/notification, no worries IMHO.