Automotive manufacturing engineering change control on the production floor

Engineering changes in automotive manufacturing can look clean in the system and still get messy on the floor. A part revision changes, a clip moves, a bracket gets a new supplier, or a torque spec updates. The document says the change is effective at a certain VIN or build date, but the operator sees old stock, new stock, mixed totes, and a line that still has to run. The part that worries me…