How to Drive Powerful CAPAs With Lean Six Sigma

The process of creating corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) is already well known and is an important part of quality systems, especially at companies in sectors like the life sciences and high precision technology.

CAPA techniques help to prevent and correct problems that can jeopardize consumer health and the reputation and profitability of companies. Yet many companies are continuing to face issues that can even result in notifications from regulatory bodies because they lack prevention procedures or have inadequate cause analysis.

In this article, Rai Chowdhary shows how Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques can be used in conjunction with CAPA to arrive at effective and definitive solutions. Using a real case as an example, Rai describes the two methodologies and how to integrate them to achieve surprising results.