In response to the original post:
Document controls can seem stringent at times, however if they seem so, it is for good reason. At times, because of the controls, it can sometimes cause delays where there are different hoops that need to be jumped through in order to go from document to product in hand. However, having those hoops prevents some big mistakes from happening that would have happened had there not been document controls. In one instance at the company that I work at, there wasn’t enough document control of a certain form that contained production/sterilization values for a product, which resulted in the plant manufacturing the plant to use an old form that did not have the up to date values. This caused a Non-Conformance, making us have several lots of product that were sitting on the manufacturing floor useless because they were not sterilized according to the proper standards outlined in the up to date form, all because of one out of date form. I agree that document controls can cause delays and headaches in normal operations, but I think that they are neccessary in order to prevent disasters such as the one I mentioned above.