Oversight agencies are turning up the heat on inspections, and are getting more aggressive in their inspection requirements.
As a result of this we are already seeing a lot more movement towards companies getting nervous about getting their hands on equipment documentation.
However, finding that documentation in Onix is a hard task.
What we need in order to find documents more effectively, is a way for us (in the equipment module, while handling equipment documentation) to search for text inside documents, and manually add them to equipment. Most often we would here want to search for things like serial numbers, manufacturers name, model descriptions, etc.
A forced OCR scan of all uploaded documents could potentially be the way to go?
Automatically adding documents to correct equipment is something I have tested out locally, and I find it to have a 15-20% error rate, which is unacceptable.
Automation would therefore have to wait until OCR and AI becomes a bit better. Mayby in 5 years time? I know many are very optimistic about AI, and it does have massive potential, but currently the level of hallucinations and assumptions produced is creating more problems than solutions when precision and facts are the main goal.