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MRP Software For Defence Manufacturing
Requirements flow down from the contract, and customers may require manufacturing records for years after delivery.
Operational Characteristics
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Requirements flow down from the prime contract to every subcontracted operation, and the flow-down itself has to be evidenced.
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Configuration control is strict. Which revision of which part was built into which assembly is a question with one correct answer and no room for reconstruction.
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Record retention runs for years beyond delivery, long after the people who did the work have moved on.
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Deviations and concessions are formal written records, agreed before the work proceeds rather than documented afterwards.
Common Control Gaps
Revision Control That Relies On Discipline
Engineering knows the approved revision. Whether the job on the floor ran that revision depends on who raised it and what was on the bench at the time.
Concessions Agreed Verbally, Written Up Later
Use-as-is is agreed in a conversation so the delivery can go. The paperwork follows, sometimes, and the record of why is thinner than the decision was.
Corrections Without An Audit Record
A correction overwrites the original value. What the record said at the time is gone, which is precisely the thing an auditor came to see.
Retention That Depends On Somebody Remembering
Records have to survive years beyond delivery. When they live in folders on individual machines, retention is a matter of luck rather than policy.
Relevant Capabilities
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Quality, concessions and traceability
Use-as-is requires a written concession before the job proceeds, and the material behind a non-conformance is linked to everything else it touched. Factory and above. - 2.
Reporting and audit history
Corrections are recorded as additional entries rather than edits, so what was reported at the time still reads as it did. - 3.
Works orders and shop-floor booking
A works order carries a snapshot of the bill and routing it was raised against, so the configuration it was built to stays on the record.
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