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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">If you have been hunting for a Corrective Action Tracking Software then this blog is for you. As an improvement manager involved with commercial automotive manufacturing I have come across many software applications for tracking corrective actions, all have been effective but some are certainly more effective than others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">My team was tasked to find an easy to use corrective action tracking </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">solution</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> that was </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">reasonably</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> priced and instantly deployable. This was required to support rapid improvement </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">strategy</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> in a very large </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">commercial</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> design and manufacturing organisation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">We </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">reviewed</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> many of the offerings currently on the market. We took the time to look at </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">solutions</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> that fell into the following product </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">categories</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Compliance Tracking Software</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Web Based Task Tracking</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Free Corrective Action Software</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">Firstly, we found the initial setup costs associated with many </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">solutions</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> were simply far too expensive. Hard sell </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">tactics</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> and </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">extremely</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> high implementation costs were a major turn off for many products.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">It was obvious that cloud-based CAPA (Corrective Action Preventative Action) software solutions were going to be the easiest to deploy. The security of web based applications has significantly improved in recent years, a web-based solution offers many advantages to its users. Cloud-based </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">solutions</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> allow for easy deployment over multiple sites including a global supply chain. My team decided to focus on these. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">We were </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">extremely</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> impressed with the <a href="http://adaptivebms.com/" target="_blank">free Corrective Action System</a>, CAPA Manager offered by AdaptiveBMS. This corrective action system was cloud based and instantly deployable. Just looking at the specifications </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">alone</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> we could see the the 'CAPA Manager' product was going to be tough to beat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">We compared the performance of ten corrective action systems based on their performance in the following areas:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Affordability</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Ease of deployment</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">KPI's</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Workflows</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.866666793823242px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Simplicity</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Overall performance</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our Preferred Corrective Action Software </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">We found that <a href="http://adaptivebms.com/" target="_blank">CAPA Manager</a> from Adaptive BMS won in all </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">categories</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">. It soon </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">became</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> clear that other </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">products</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> could be over complicated and </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">expensive, this diluted their ability to provide a good </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">solution</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">. This free Corrective Action Software</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> simply exceeded our expectations in every way. Being free it was not going to be beaten on cost. It was also </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">available</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">immediately to potential users and our supply chain!</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> There were </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">purchase</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> versions </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">available</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">, but this was for power users, small business can sign up and get going for free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;">We conclude that any organisation that wants an easy to deploy and cost effective corrective action </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">solution</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> must </span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">seriously</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> consider CAPA Manager from A</span><span style="line-height: 18.866666793823242px;">daptive</span><span style="line-height: 18.883333206176758px;"> BMS</span></span><br />
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