Hi Gregory,
Thanks for your reply. I would agree with you generally (and on paper that's an easy point to make) but in practice what happens is parts X, Y, and Z are simply different flavors of the same product (black picture frame instead of white picture frame, for example) and manufacturing knows this so they don't print off/access every drawing for inspection purposes. Months later engineering will find this drawing with the incorrect tolerance (remember, all other drawings have the appropriate tolerance) so it needs to be changed, but it would be confusing for manufacturing why they're getting a Change Notice when the drawing matches exactly what they've been building for that product.
Clearly one could argue that the drawing is still wrong and that manufacturing has simply been building them to the drawing of a different flavor so technically manufacturing was incorrect as well, however this seems like semantics and difficult to explain to one manufacturing floor, let alone several in other countries with langauge barriers.
I guess the crux of the question is: when a mistake is made on the drawing that manufacturing either misses or completely ignores, is this something that should be revised or demoted by the Org Admin? It sounds like a relatively simple issue but when several CAD guys have worked on the same set of drawings, it turns out that there are many instances of this type of thing.
Thanks again!
