CAPA & NC operations

Catch the pattern before the recall.

Recurring defects, root-cause rollups, and CAPA effectiveness across every NC in your QMS — surfaced the day they emerge, not at the annual audit.

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Workbooks / NC operations / Apr 1 – Apr 30 2 recurring patterns
111
Open NCs
14 over 30 days old
9
Active CAPAs
2 due for effectiveness check
6.2 days
Avg time to close
Down from 9.1 in Q4
78%
CAPA effectiveness
No recurrence in 90 days
NCPartDefectCauseAgeStatus
NC-1051TRA-N-K007224OD undersizeTooling wear2dRecurring
NC-1049T-4566Burr on flangeSetup3dOpen
NC-1046SSD792500Surface finishMaterial5dOpen
NC-1042TRA-N-K007224OD undersizeTooling wear9dRecurring
NC-1038D-841Hardness out of specHeat treat12dCAPA-007
NC-1031U-J-LY0890-1038Thread damageHandling14dClosed

Root causes, rolled up.

Optrix aggregates causes across every NC — by part, work center, operator, and shift — so a defect that recurs across six records reads as one pattern, not six isolated incidents.

Cause aggregation Recurrence detection Cross-NC patterns Shift & operator cuts
Root causes / trailing 90 days · by cost
Tooling wear$9,120
Setup error$5,640
Material$4,010
Heat treat$2,580
Handling$1,190
Show me every NC tied to tooling wear in the last 90 days

CAPAs that close the loop.

When a pattern warrants action, Optrix drafts the CAPA — evidence attached, owner assigned, effectiveness check scheduled. Then it watches the data to verify the fix actually held.

Draft CAPAs Evidence attached Effectiveness tracking Human-approved
Draft a CAPA for the recurring OD undersize on TRA-N-K007224
CAPA-2026-011
Trigger
6 NCs · OD undersize · 90 days
Owner
M. Torres — Machining
Root cause
Tooling wear, centerless grind
Status
Draft — pending approval
Corrective action — wheel dressing interval 8h → 4hWk 1
Preventive action — in-process OD gauge at op 30Wk 3
Effectiveness check — zero recurrence window90 days
Cost of inaction (90-day run rate)$9,120
Evidence: NC-1042, NC-1051 + 4 more, tool-change logs, operator notes. Approve to open in uniPoint.

Everything in NC operations.

The whole quality loop — detect, investigate, act, verify — in one workbook.

Recurrence detection

Same part, same defect, flagged across NCs.

Root-cause Pareto

Causes ranked by cost, count, or trend.

NC aging

Open queue with age, owner, and disposition.

CAPA effectiveness

Did the fix hold? Verified against live data.

Drafted CAPAs

Written from the evidence, approved by you.

Close-time trends

Time to disposition, tracked per work center.

Cross-system links

NCs joined to work orders, lots, and operators.

Audit export

Evidence packets ready for the auditor.

Six incidents. One pattern.

Seeing the pattern
Day one

Recurrence flags fire the day the second NC lands — not when someone happens to remember the first.

Building the case
Attached

The CAPA draft arrives with NCs, work orders, and logs already cited. Investigation starts at evidence, not at zero.

Verifying the fix
90 days

Effectiveness checks run against live data — recurrence inside the window reopens the loop automatically.

What disappears over time

The quality review where everyone scrolls the NC log hunting for patterns the data already knew about.

0 surprisesat the annual audit

Ready for the quality review, and the audit.

The loop is documented as it happens — not reconstructed the week before.

Find the patterns hiding in your NC log.

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