As a part of the Quality Unit, Document control main procedure depends on ensuring medical devices or product safety and quality. This includes ensuring the production processes security and determining restrictions needed to: accept, inspect, update, distinguish differences, know update status and provide access to the most recent document resources. The document control system must define the mission, purpose, and duties needed to achieve these parameters. It is known to strict in most cases, in particular in the medical devices industry due to FDA regulations and ISO quality standards, which would eventually delay the lunch of the product. (Ref. iso-9001-checklist website)
In order to improve document control, one can think about is to automate the control process as much as possible and make the document management process more efficient, easy to be accessed, and cost-effective. This can be done using a Document Control Software (ex. MasterControl, M-Files, eFileCabinet, DocStar ECM, etc.) which could replace the human signature by electronic ones (saving time), manage different documents simultaneously (fewer workers/more outcome), automate document review and approval processes, send auto email notifications for process updates, and integrated analytics and reports of the process. (Ref. Mastercontrol website)

ProductionMachining website defined several tips that will help in making the document managing easier and faster: 1. Organize by Department, 2. Define Responsibilities & Authorities (R&A) for Personnel, 3. Simplify Work Instructions, 4. Improve Control. (Ref. productionmachining website)