CAPA Software
applications provide the most efficient solution for organizations to manage
nonconformance. CAPA software is used to report and then implement corrective
and preventive action to eliminate the causes of nonconformance.
What is the definition
of CAPA Software?
It is an abbreviation of
corrective action and preventative action software which can be considered an
important tool designed for any business quality management system. In simple
words these software systems have the ability to track the progress of
correction required through workflows while maintaining records of all reported
problems and action in a system database.
What are the basic
concepts of CAPA Software?
Management system
standards such as ISO 9001, 14001, AS 9100, ISO/TS and many more have very
well-defined requirements. Software systems are designed to fulfill these
requirements in the most efficient ways with easy to use tools and less
resource requirements than manual systems.
• Corrective actions -
Also known as counter measures when properly applied eliminate the cause or
causes of non-conformance to prevent their recurrence.
• Preventative actions -
Take those corrective actions that were effective and apply them to similar
processes and products to prevent the causes of non-conformance where the NCR
has not yet occurred.
Good software systems
include tools to assist the user in identifying and recording potential causes
as well as workflows to assign analysis of these potential causes to determine
which are contributing or root causes and which are not related. More advanced
CAPA systems will guide users to determine how/why non-conforming product was
made? And then what in the quality system failed that allowed the
non-conformance to escape or "Why shipped?"
What is the working task
of CAPA Software?
The design intent of
most CAPA software is automation combined with workflow which functionally
makes the process easier to track, categorize particular cases and status them
correctly. Below are some specific inbuilt features of the software.
• Index and advanced
search tools allow the user to quickly located reported problems and then group
them by one or more criteria. Exporting to Ms Excel and filtering on columns
can also be used to quickly locate records.
• Configurable work-flows including approvals that assign problems to their rightful owners or functional responsibility
• Easy to complete problem report or discovery form that allow end users to report problems
• Work-flows that track status and issue overdue and late reminders when tasks are not completed on time
• Tools that schedule follow-up activities to confirm the effectiveness of each cause elimination activity or the corrective actions that were implemented
• No CAPA software would be complete without the ability to assign and track the costs of poor quality
CAPA Software systems than provide these features as a minimum will improve and organizations ability to manage non conformance.
• Configurable work-flows including approvals that assign problems to their rightful owners or functional responsibility
• Easy to complete problem report or discovery form that allow end users to report problems
• Work-flows that track status and issue overdue and late reminders when tasks are not completed on time
• Tools that schedule follow-up activities to confirm the effectiveness of each cause elimination activity or the corrective actions that were implemented
• No CAPA software would be complete without the ability to assign and track the costs of poor quality
CAPA Software systems than provide these features as a minimum will improve and organizations ability to manage non conformance.
Akshat is author of this
article on CAPA Software and has
contributed too many software articles from last two years.
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