Some potential problems from not following the design controls process and using the process wrong is to have major delays or changes in your device. By being too specific in documents such as the DID and DSD you may run into a problem where you need to make a very small modification to your device, but now you can not because of what you put in your documents. Now you must start over and spend extra time to figure out how you can meet your design specifications. Design controls makes it difficult to make necessary changes to a device that could make it significantly better, which is why you must take amble time to develop your design documents, to look over all possibilities, assess their risk level, and pick the most definite option. In addition, by developing a timeline you may set unrealistic dates for completeness. This can cause the group to work too quickly and obtain poor results and in the end a poor product that barely meets their expectations or may fall short of expectations and the project would result in a failure. Some problems that can also arise, is a good product being turned down because of minor mistakes in paperwork or not filing paperwork on time.