Document Control Systems Evolve

Document-control software is becoming an integrated piece of an overall quality system.

For more than a decade, technology has been available to manufacturers to automate quality management processes such as documentation control. With the rapid development of technology and the World Wide Web, document-control software has evolved from its genesis in the early 1990s. Today, technology trends and customer preferences dictate that document control software functions as much more than a mechanism to meet ISO document-control requirements; it must become an integrated piece to an overall quality system that generates benefits and a return-on-investment not previously realized.