So, an interesting day at work, in the Chinese sense of interesting. I spent 2 hours in a meeting with our ISO person and an engineer and, at one point, told our ISO person Please, lower your tone of voice in a very, very careful manner. She basically said that the methodology she instituted for doing Time Study/Setup revisions was a violation of ISO protocols and would get us written up. She also stated that my boss published process for completing Time Studies/Setups violated ISO stadards and would get us written up as it had not been included in her Quality Manual as part of the process. In addition, I can now no longer link to historical documents (such as a )C revision when going to a )D draft revision) nor can I link our database with the draft revision which means that when a Time Study/Setup is being revised it is, effectively, in limbo until the process is complete. This has repurcussions in that the process cannot, at this time, be completed because the draft revision cannot be linked to the database and that is part of the process of completion. It has further repurcussions in that if, during the process, the same part is run again there is no current effective way to provide the machine operator(s) with a Setup that is not a) incorrect and therefor invalid or corrupt, or b) in draft form and therefor not allowed to be used on the shop floor. Her solution was to have the Supervisor reprint a copy of the most recent approved revision and red-line it and initial it making it an approved document, but this has no value, especially during the evening hours when the Supervisor does not have access to me to print the document for him, and/or does not have access to the folder in which the most recent document has been stored. I spoke with the company President about this this afternoon and we have a meeting tomorrow with the him, the VP, the shop Supervisor, and myself, to try to brainstorm ideas for a proper solution. Sometimes, I think ISO is an abbreviation for In Search Of (another way to infuriate me, to break processes, and to generate more paperwork). It was a simple process, an easy process, and a working process, and ISO came up with it in the first place and now its broken and in shambles. If I didnt know better Id think someone was trying their darnedest to get me fired. And Im not sure I know better. Ah, Mondays...
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:31:19 +0000
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