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Click Get started, then use Proto to configure Quality Management System for your business. Begin with one product, its active specification, an inspection plan and a representative lot.

An inspection marked Fail or Conditional can create a report linked to that inspection. The report can also record other issue sources through its source field.

The worst cited defect severity sets the report’s severity when defect citations are added or changed. Critical and major issues require root cause work.

Quality Manager owns the decision. The report records the selected disposition, approving user and approval time.

A major or critical nonconformance can create a corrective CAPA once. Assigned tasks and root cause analysis carry the longer work.

A not effective result reopens the CAPA and creates fresh corrective and verification tasks for another cycle.

Audits carry scope, standard, schedule and auditor. Clause checklists record observations, while findings have their own response owners and due dates.

Inspections that referenced it on or after its last calibrated date are flagged for Quality Manager review.

Supplier score records hold a period, date range, quality measures, score and grade linked to the supplier.

A training record can link to an NCR, CAPA and standard. Qualifying serious NCR closures can create retraining for the source inspector.