The increasing demands for real-time information and analyses, and the need to involve customers and suppliers in the quality assurance process, are leading organizations to include Web-based CAPA software systems as a core information system.

CAPAs can be used for more than just product safety and quality issues. Manufacturers can benefit from web-based CAPA systems on the production floor as well. Web-based applications can be used to track scrap or defects as well as machine downtime. Merging a CAPA software program with these production efficiency tracking applications is allowing manufacturers the ability to do more than just track and report the production data. It is giving them the ability to address their loss areas, and assign actions which can be tracked within the system.

This is really the evolution of manufacturing software. Manufacturers now have avialable to them a closed loop type system which provides a way to not only track and report on the production data, but a way to track and identify the actions which have had the most impact on loss areas.

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