1. Is paper gaslighting you?
It distorts your perception of reality and tries to convince you that without it you would never get your products approved and out the door.
You have to keep hounding it to give you the truth. It might give you data from the few product lines that have EBRs, but you’re still unable to get the full picture.
Paper is barely in your life anymore. You have digitised batch records on all your lines and sites, which is filling most of your needs.
2. Does paper support your and your company’s long-term goals?
Paper might help you meet some milestones, but you’re relying more on digital systems for your high priority product lines.
Not really. And it undermines your efforts to achieve them.
You’ve shrugged off your dependency on paper. It might have been useful once but now you’re able to rely more on your connected systems.
3. Does your paper come with emotional baggage?
Paper is unable to truly connect with you — or others for that matter.
Your EBRs have freed you from paper’s binding influence over your operation. You now have higher aspirations and intend to reach them.
Your EBRs have freed you from paper’s binding influence over your operation. You now have higher aspirations and intend to reach them.
4. Is your relationship with paper codependent?
You’re doing just fine without paper. You’re now able to foster healthy connections with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, laboratory information management system (LIMS), quality management system (QMS), etc.
You rely heavily on paper, but it’s not there for you when you need it most, such as during an audit.
Digitised batch records have relieved most of the tension brought on by having to constantly nurture your relationship with paper on your high-priority product lines.
5. Do you always have to make excuses for your paper?
You’re always having to apologise for your paper’s absence to auditors.
You’ve automated many of your processes, but paper still narcissistically tries to control the lines and sites that don’t have EBRs.
You’re no longer completely tied to paper. You’re making a digital transformation in manufacturing and enjoying the freedom that comes with having digitised batch records on all your lines.
Answer Key
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5-9 Points
Your relationship is slightly toxic
In your relationship you feel emotionally manipulated – a clear sign that it is becoming toxic. You don’t need to move out today but start planning your exit strategy. Your life will be so much more fulfilled with paperless manufacturing software. Think about the wonders of completely digitising your batch records, putting an end to manually reconciling paper forms and offline processes, and ensuring error-free manufacturing.
10-12 Points
Your relationship is moderately toxic
Your relationship is not as bad as it could be. You’ve justified using paper because it’s familiar to you and you’re in a comfort zone with your current status. But things are getting progressively worse. Paper has control over some of your life and decisions. You should not delay your departure any longer. Immerse yourself in a digital transformation in manufacturing. You’ll be much happier when you’re able to capture all your production data in an EBR, perform data integrity checks, automate calculations, and enforce required actions.
13-15 Points
Your relationship is highly toxic
You deserve better. You feel trapped because paper has total control over your manufacturing operation and decisions. Even though it’s hard, you should have left paper months ago. Once you do, you’ll finally be able to see more clearly because EBRs and advanced analytics give you a comprehensive view of all your manufacturing processes. At a glance, you’ll have all the information you need to make data-driven decisions, more accurate resource and materials forecasts, and real-time reviews to accelerate issue resolutions.
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