Quality Engineering & CAPA
Investigations that close with evidence, linked to the risk they came from.
Quality Engineers, CAPA owners and problem-solving leads who turn nonconformances into closed corrective actions.
Your week, before and after
The left column is how this work usually gets done. The right column is the same week with the records, evidence and reminders living in one place.
Your week today
- Root cause is whatever fits in the form field, and the approval history lives in e-mail.
- The CAPA, the FMEA line it should update and the complaint that triggered it live in three systems.
- Writing up an investigation takes longer than the investigation.
- Approvals wait on whoever is out of office.
Your week with VirtualBackroom
- CAPA management tracks each action from draft through approval to closure, with a hash-chained history and dual-control approvals at the gates.
- CAPAs link to the record that raised them: a gap-analysis finding, a regulatory change, an FMEA line, a complaint, a validation deviation or an 8D case, so the record explains itself.
- The FMEA worksheet suggests failure modes from a model council for you to accept or reject, and keeps a colour-coded RPN matrix current.
- 8D Co-Pilot drafts each discipline in the AIAG CQI-20 structure; you keep the pen on the final text.
The tools behind it
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Open, investigate and close corrective actions with a hash-chained history, dual-control approvals, and links from the FMEA line, complaint, deviation, 8D case or exposure row that raised them.
ISO 14971-aligned FMEA with AI-suggested failure modes, a colour-coded RPN matrix, CAPA cross-links and PDF/Excel export.
Three FMEAs on Free; unlimited on Pro.Disciplined D0–D8 problem solving following AIAG CQI-20, with AI drafting each discipline for your review.
Every FDA medical-device warning letter, fetched daily, with deficiencies mapped to QMSR and ISO 13485 clauses.
Browser on Free; bulk analysis on Pro.Acceptance sampling (ANSI/ASQ Z1.4), process capability (Cp/Cpk/Pp/Ppk) and Gage R&R computed by a deterministic engine, with optional labelled AI interpretation.
Ask one regulatory question to a council of models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity; compare their cited answers with a consensus score and per-citation verified/unverified flags.
Requirements this role answers to
- ISO 13485:2016 §8.5.2 — Corrective action
- ISO 13485:2016 §8.5.3 — Preventive action
- ISO 13485:2016 §8.2.5 — Monitoring and measurement of processes
- AIAG CQI-20 — Effective problem solving (8D)
Citations use the clause formats listed in our Standards Library. The FDA QMSR is cited at the Part level; withdrawn 21 CFR 820 subsections are never presented as current requirements.
See where you stand today
New accounts are paused at the moment. The free Exposure Check still runs without one, and the self-service demo shows the whole QMS OS on sample data.
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