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  • Deviations that come from the verification step of a design control always causes a havoc at work. Recently, I was trying to qualify a modified fixture for use on the production floor. The drawing was completed, the fixture was built and read for qualification. I began to execute and installation verification and function verification test to the fixture, and it failed. The deadline for this project was one week away, so I had to reorganize my gnatt chart to accommodate for the setback. While completing the installation qualification, the critical dimension of the fixture was measured and did not meet the dimension specified in the drawing. Therefore, we had to correct the drawing to include a higher tolerance. This simple change took two weeks to finalize because it had to be approved and signed by document control and each manager of quality, finance, manufacturing etc. Then only could we try to verify the fixture again, luckily the second go around was a success.