Control of documents
Manage and control documents created in any Microsoft Office or other application – policies, procedures, plans, instructions, etc. Paradigm 3 is designed around the requirements of ISO 9001 from which most other document control systems are derived. Paradigm 3 is the third generation product by Paradigm Software. We have continually refined and improved our control of documentation systems over a 15 year period with excess of 1,500 independent auditors worldwide who have approved the methodology.
Suitable for Quality, Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety, Laboratory, Pharmaceutical, etc. management systems.
- Manage on-line editing, reviews and electronic approval
- Manage on-line versioning (Major, Medium and Minor)
- Maintains automatic versioning history of transaction for audit trail
- Automated document updating of insert fields with versioning information like version, authoriser, version dates and many more (Microsoft Word & Excel)
- Tree view folder structures with security controls on viewing, modify, printing etc.
- Automated review schedules that notify staff when review is due
- Document statuses available
Draft: place security behind who can edit Drafts
Current: assign control behind who can convert to Current
Pending: approve the document any time but set the convert to Current for a date in the future
Review: allow others to review a document before making Current
Ready: change to Ready status to let other know you have done your changes
Obsolete: all old versions retained and available and control who can view
Collaborate: used for multiple user to develop a document
Open: used when the document or form is to be completed
Completed: use to lock an open form
