In the aerospace industry during the 1980's we had QAP's (quality assurance plans) and QAIP's (quality assurance inspection plans). They were mandated by the SOW (statement of work) and composed by the PPAP (program product assurance engineer). Once composed they were routed out to all of management and supervision for approvals (a task that usually took several months and as many as 20+ signatures.) This of course could only happen with some sort of Initial Quality Planning in order to have the documents ready prior to production startup.
Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? As cumbersome as it sounds the system worked quite well as part of Mil-Q-9858A. When production started everyone new what to do and when to do it and why! If not they simply referred to the QAIP and found out. Gray areas were referred to the PPAP assigned to the program who had full access to the all mighty! On some occassions a revision to the document was warranted. Obviously then the documents were a controlled document.
Sometimes a climpse into the past can be quite revealing. Who needs ISO?
Hope this helps!
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