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CAPA Implementation: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Do corrective actions squash your issues quickly? Yes.
Do corrective actions also squash your issues permanently? Not always.

This guide details the most common issues that trip up even the best-intentioned organization in their efforts to create sustainable and impactful CAPAs. These CAPA pitfalls result in an operation that is continually prone to error, and under-achieves.

Download to view insights and examples that describe the best tools, techniques, and strategies to overcome these traps and ensure a higher CAPA success rate, including:

  • Why a solution may lack personnel confidence 

  • What issues are associated with commonly-used methods (ex. 5-Why Analysis)

  • How to move a corrective action to a preventive action

This free guide includes access to companion videos from the author, Michael Parent (Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt), who digs deeper into key improvement methods.