You do know that the paperwork has to be larger than the unit mass. I only had to fill out one form per unit, and one on receipt, one on test, one on repair, one on verification and one for QC. Then the labels for the box, for the unit, for the stores and all the paperwork, in the style that stores wanted, complete with the spaces they wanted left blank for their side. If I took from stores a page for the order, a record in a register, a copy in a file for the unit, another in the general file and still another form to order the part. Carbon paper a good saving, as the forms all had to be original or carbon copy, not a photocopy. Best thing I ever did was to get a self inking stamp pad with the required data aside from my signature, so as to use on the forms. Stores looked at that and she wanted heir own.
That was only for avionics, I only had to fill out modification forms once, that took a 3 month period of back and forth of piles of paper. The basic form was 4 pages with "Add as needed extra pages marked annexure XYZ" and whole sections marked as " Not affected by this modification" along with prices, suppliers and 3 quotes per part with lead times and guarantees as to availability for x months and a set of contact details and other details.
I'd have been happy if it were larger than the unit, even by a factor of ten. The unit from memory weighed about 250g, that's about half a pound in old money.
As one of the designers, not only did I have to sort the assembly paperwork but all of the design details as well.
From memory there was the following
The design description, which includes a full description of the design and how it works, all its schematics, parts lists etc
The process description, so if soldering component to board using Sn63 solder and weller iron with bit type xyz was on the list of approved and controlled processes that line was easy. If it wasn't then there was more work.
The worse case analysis, which covers temperature, component and tolerancing variations
The rad hardness report.
The compliance matrix
The test plan, which explains what testing philosophy will be used to prove that the product meets each line item of the spec
The test procedure which details how to do the tests
The test report, which contains the results of the tests. I had one friend that had put together 9000 plots on a single, complex piece of equipment. He only had another 6000 to do to finish when the project was cancelled.
Each report not only had the essentials, but also a few dozen pages of boilerplate, plus indices of chapters, figures, tables. It was usually necessary to provide six copies of each on paper, not less than 90g/sqm, as well as a few more copies on CDRom.
and despite all that, I still prefer working space jobs to military ones, at least the paperwork is proactive rather than reactive, even if there is fractionally more of it.
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