Power is control and control is power and once someone has the power it is difficult for them to give it up.
I fought like crazy to not have our DOCs controlled through our Documentation Control department to avoid many of the problems you are having. They have to be control somehow but I keep track of them within our Compliance Department. How I was able to avoid ECN control of the DOC is on the DOC itself I reworded the statement to say; “The product herewith displaying the CE marking complies with the requirements of the……” So I argued that the CE compliance is not based on the DOC but on the CE Marking which is ECN controlled. The DOC just shows what the CE marking means at the time it was generated. As far as the DOC generation, we keep the information on all products in a database which includes the last audit date and other information that would appear on the DOC. When we pull up a DOC for any product, the DOC is dynamically generated with all the appropriate dates and information. We just print/save it to a .pdf file and store it in an archive area on our Intranet/network Page where the Sales/Marketing and Manuals departments have READ access. I’m the only one in the company with WRITE access to these folder so only I can change the DOCs. We also archive all the old DOCs incase someone wants to pull a copy of an old version. I hope this was helpful. The Other Brian ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Updating EU DoC Hello group, I am looking to see how you folks generate and update your EU DOC. We use the typical MS Word template and every time there is a need for an update, we update this document and have to go through ECO (Engineering Change Order) since it is a controlled document and I found this process to be very time consuming and not really efficient in particular when you have over 100 DOC's to maintain. Is there any easier way? Is there an automated process out there? Do we really need to have it under control revision? Thank you Peter - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]> _________________________ LECO Corporation Notice: This communication may contain confidential information intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you received this by mistake, please destroy it and notify us of the error. Thank you. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]>
