Shopfloor Matters
Glossary

CAPA

Corrective and preventive action

In practice

CAPA is captured in a QMS, or in a MOM platform that covers quality. ERP often handles the full CAPA process once the details have been passed across through an interface. The loop breaks when shopfloor defects never reach it with their context, so the CAPA team ends up asking for details nobody can remember.

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