What is Document Control?

It was basically an admin group that would take the drawing bundle and create the prints, as blue prints or microfiche and deliver to the appropriate areas making the available to all of the other relevant departments such as purchasing, tech pubs and other engineering groups. This group like Drafting was associated with but separate from engineering. Today this is part of engineering included in the PLM system. But it only handled the drawings which were standard deliverables from engineering. PLM handles the native CAD data as standard deliverables. Data inside engineering and documents to deliver outside engineer should be separate and handled by different groups. This is why PLM will never succeed.