Actually, work instructions are not a "firm" requirement of the 9000 series standards anyway, so why trouble yourselves...my thoughts in regards to generating "reference only" documents, or "prototype only" documents are this...don't write them... rely on the 'out' that the standard provides for you, develop your plan...then generate documents appropriately... What I've seen happen over the years are people spending as much time or more writing those "fake or temporary" documents as if they were part of their system...and it won't buy you anything...even during an audit... Franklin --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------