clinton I don't stuff around with paperwork.
ask yourself this though.
if an aeroplane has , say, 172 components to it. how can a paperwork system by any flavour do anything other than trace that the 172 components were checked for fitness for flight?
just bye the bye I replaced my oil hoses in the last annual.
they were on the aircraft for about 20 years.
hoses were made from aeroquip 303-6.
there was not one identifiable deterioration in them. the inner liners were sound and undamaged. the hoses were still supple and flexible.
now replaced with the stratoflex equivalent hose and good for another 20 years.