Re: Management System related to Piping Design

Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote: Christopher said "Your underlying assumption, that the management system in fact works, is hazy. Some work, some don't. Some address actual problems, others are conveniences to allow placing blame. Some are definitive, others are too vague to be useful. My personal experience is that systems which rely on procedural controls all have a fatal flaw: procedural controls are predictive; they assume that eventualities have all been foreseen--that the future is known."

   Your point is so accurate Christopher, as usual.

   We have been bedevilled by that Canadian invention Quality Assurance (CZ299 I think). It is after all a management system. The tomes that inhibit shelves and libraries have cost forests. Who reads them? Occassionally a form is taken out of the back but then is revised because it doesnt actually do its job. They were often prepared by gurus who thought they knew how things should be done. In the end they are made so all embracing and loose so the management and company cant be pinged for not following them when there is an audit.

   With the advent of economic rationalism engineering resources have dwindled. We are now so efficient with our computers and software. This of course costs more per head , so management expect to decrease the number of heads. Partly to pay for the "thought police" (QA management).

   Geoff Stone

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Wed Dec 21 18:16:00 2005