A form asks whether the drawings were updated. A workflow refuses to close until they are.
We gate a change so it cannot pass until the technical review is complete, the affected documents are identified and the updates are attached rather than promised. Management of change reaches further than any other element, and it is the element paper handles worst.
Screen
Whether this is a change at all, and whether it is like for like, temporary or permanent
Review
Routed to the disciplines the change actually touches, not to a standing committee
Authorise
At the level the risk rank demands, with the rank recorded
Implement
Work executed with the document impact list open and visible
Update records
Closure blocked while any drawing or procedure update remains outstanding
Where a change can close before the record is updated, the update becomes a follow on action, it ages, and the next study inherits a drawing that is wrong.
Pre startup review
Verified before hazardous material returns, as a condition and not a follow on
Temporary means temporary
Temporary changes carry an expiry date that escalates on its own once it passes. A bypass therefore becomes permanent only by a decision somebody signs, never by the date going unnoticed.
Gates that hold will slow you at first
Enforced gates slow the first month. Engineers used to closing a change and updating the drawing later will find the workflow will not let them, and some of that friction is the point.
Put change behind gates that hold
We will come back with the gate design, the expiry rules and a delivery timeline. Tell us how a change is approved today and which records have to be current before it can close.