Go further than simple Pass / Fail | Yes / No checklists
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Improve workforce efficiency with visual reference audit questions, instant failure notifications and prompted corrective action.
Much more than data capture: report, react & resolve non-conformance with EDN
Make pass/fail audit questions easy to understand and produce more accurate results with visual cues, instructions and alternative options to turn checklists into quality data.
Pass/Fail audits and inspection checklists have long been used in a variety of industries for safety, quality, process control and compliance. These standardised audits ensure consistency across different shifts, teams, machines, processes and even locations or facilities.
However, manual paper-based processes are too inefficient and ineffective for managing standards that promote manufacturing quality excellence and customer satisfaction.
Digitizing your audit checklists will take your operations further by streamlining all of your audits into one system, reducing delays in data collection and preventing data accumulation errors from manual handling of paper forms.
Real-time results from failed audit questions empowers your team with the insight needed to respond with all cylinders firing.
There are many reasons to use a Pass / Fail, Yes / No, True / False, Right / Wrong, Complete / Incomplete or any variation of score failure terminology that fits your industry culture and compliance.
Small checkboxes and longwinded questions can disrupt the business of getting the job done. Build your audits with images, videos, icon buttons and more. Visual reference yields quality results, so why set out your audit checklists like they did on paper clipboards?
Facebook didn’t invent thumbs up / thumbs down but the simplicity of using icons and real life examples of what a fail or pass might be, creates a universal understanding for your team, remote workers, suppliers and even customers.
When visual inspection or audit is of a subjective matter, let the intelligence of the system determine the fail threshold. A variable sliding scale for users assessing a task or product allows additional tracking for the assessment range. While a fail result might be quite accurate, the ability to look back and discover the range percentage that sit close to failure can prompt deeper investigation into issues that lead to increased failed results.
Let subjective scaled pass/fail audit tasks teach your team a little more about your processes or production.
Add follow up questions to drill down on non-conformance to set corrective action in play. Build a robust understanding of the issues caught, using expansion questions to dive into the reasons why an audit question failed. Collect the evidence with EDN, that is required by other team members or divisions responsible for the corrective actions.
Expansion questions are particularly helpful for field audits where choosing the appropriate support worker and tools needs additional information for corrective measures.
Equipping your team with the features of EDN means your expanded questions greater features for a refined understanding of the failure. It failed – is simply not enough. Save time with the auditor or operator including video and image capture of the problem, barcode scanning for tracking and heatmaps of the isolated area of concern.
These features are not included with regular mobile form and checklist software, but EDN was built by quality engineers that needed a head start on addressing non-conformance and reducing downtime in the discovery process.
Language is a powerful thing. Pass and Fail can bring negative connotations and you need a productive workforce, engaged and willing. Structure your checklists with language that encourages a quality culture for receptive results.
EDN allows you to define your answers with language and terminology that suits the culture and understanding of the task. You don’t have to be locked into checklist types that only offer Yes/No or Pass/Fail audit questions.
A task that uses “Achieved” might have an overall performance improvement than the user checking “Pass” throughout a shift. Likewise, “Fail” for tasks that workers may feel is connected to their performance can have detrimental results in the workforce. Simply changing the result words or using images instead, can have a possible effect with better uptake of accurate input.
If you have multiple facilities that speak different languages, using a word in English might not translate the same way in another language. Switch in words to
EDN has the capability to use local languages with the terminology that they understand, which is much more powerful than a straight English translation.
Visualize complex data in an easy to consume manner with Heat Maps for defective areas, subjective non-conformance and human movement.
Add a new level of speed and efficiency to your inspections and audits with barcode scanning and tracking for non-conformance, warranties and inventory.
Achieve continuous improvement from scheduled and structured Layered Process Audits across your organisation management levels and locations.
PQ use EDN inspection and audit form software for Yes/No and Pass/Fail audit question types