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Airbozo
05-01-2008, 12:53 PM
I have posted a new blog entry on why I have been a little absent from the boards. Check it out here;
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/frontpage/?q=node/194
jdbnsn
05-01-2008, 02:13 PM
whew, glad ya made it! Nice touch planting the Harley ;)
Luke122
05-01-2008, 02:17 PM
You shaved the playoff beard?! No wonder the Sharks are losing!!!!!!!

hehe.. go Oilers. :P
IndyRacer27
05-01-2008, 09:44 PM
You shaved the playoff beard?! No wonder the Sharks are losing!!!!!!!

hehe.. go Oilers. :P

LOL, good one Luke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XcOM
05-02-2008, 03:12 PM
we just had a audit at work from Marks n Spencer, We have another one in 4 weeks time, i wish our place was more orginised like yours, we have 2 weeks to impliment what took a year last time,

Anyway, that was good news.
Airbozo
05-02-2008, 04:05 PM
When we started the process we were panicking. At first glance it looked like we had nothing to show them. Once all the right people learned what we were doing (yes communication helps), the information started to flow. Take for example our "QA Process Manual". No one except the Office Manager even knew we had one. Once we included her in the meeting,she said, "wait, here is what you are looking for". Before that we had talked about hiring a consultant to come in and put together a QA Manual and QA Procedures (not the same thing). Once we found out we actually had one, the panic started to subside. The next snag was that the Procedure manual was typed on a typewriter so we only had a hard copy. Scanners to the rescue!

I think the Audit was only good for our company.
Crimson Sky
05-02-2008, 05:06 PM
Well it sure got your hackles raised, thats fior sure. Nothing like an audit to get you on your toes. Glad it was resolved!
Airbozo
05-02-2008, 06:49 PM
What is _really_ funny, is that our customer (the one that did the audit), still uses manual inventory tags and their document control server is absolute crap. (slow, cumbersome to use and non-intuitive) They were impressed with our document control server and the fact we use bar code tags to do inventory control.

I found and setup an open source document control server in less than 2 days. Since we had the hardware and OS (fedora core 8 ), I was able to put together a solution for basically free. I used Epiware (http://epiware.com/) for the document control software. Not the best, but it was free and it is pretty useful.