One of the more frustrating aspects of document control involves the manual nature of the work. In our recent Supplier vs EPC survey, we discovered that the single most important factor to EPC respondents is accuracy and formatting of the data they receive. One aspect...

How can the EPCs that you serve provide better information to you up front before the start of a project? EPCs should take more care to trim vendor data requirement lists (VDRL), prior to inclusion in RFPs. Supplier experience sees irrelevant document requirements...

In our experience, companies have differing views on documentation depending on their customers' requirements and how much documentation they are required to provide at the end of projects. Our document control survey showed that EPCs don’t choose suppliers based on...

Every company submitting documents to an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partner faces the same problems: large volumes of manual work, coupled with complex (or unclear) expectations and procedures. This often leads to time-consuming rework,...

No, this is not a take-off on the old “how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb” but rather how do we determine how many Document Controllers it takes to staff a project. In some senses, this question does not have an empirical answer but it is common to...

The entry of new people to the Document Controller profession was the topic of recent discussion in the LinkedIn Document Control Specialist group. Comments focused on the level of training and experience one should have before their peers consider them a true...