Did anyone catch that drift before it shipped?

A reading slips out of range overnight and nobody is watching the chart. It’s caught within 15 minutes, the hold is opened or brought to a person, and the evidence is already on the case.

  • Storage temperature, lot 7731
  • 1 Auditor: hold opened, lot 7731
  • Investigation: INV-0311 Severity 2 3 sign-offs open

mode40 was started by people who ran plants. The drift was usually on the chart hours before anyone looked.

The hold happens in minutes, not at the next review.

Old way

nobody sees the drift until someone reviews the chart by hand, hours or days later.

New way

every reading is scored as it's logged, and the Auditor sweeps every 15 minutes.

  • Inside the authority you set, the Auditor opens the hold. Anything outside waits for a person.

How a drifting reading becomes a held lot

Each Module does one job, in this order.

  1. SPC Engine

    Scores each sample as it's logged: past three sigma, or eight in a row on one side of the mean.

  2. Quality (Auditor)

    Sweeps every 15 minutes and opens the hold inside its authority.

  3. Notification Center

    Puts the hold on the quality lead's bell, with the record one click away.

  4. Authority Matrix

    Says whether the Auditor may hold alone, or must wait for a person.

  5. Investigation Engine

    Turns the hold into one case, with the evidence attached.

Start with: SPC Engine and Investigation Engine.

  • Finding: Cooler 3 temperature Severity: high 8 in a row above centre
  • Findings this week, low to critical 9

Watch every number on every form

The Auditor checks each quality metric against its own baseline. AI is used for one thing only: drafting the root cause for a person to edit.

  • Every numeric field on your forms tracked, including ones nobody thought to chart
  • Each finding gets a severity, from low to critical
  • The same record always gives the same flags, because the rules are fixed
  • Sensitivity set per characteristic, three sigma by default
  • Thin data holds the flag back until there's enough to judge

How this shows up in your industry

Same Modules, same chain. Here's what it looks like in each.

  • Manufacturing

    A machined dimension drifts on second shift and the lot is held before it ships.

  • Food and Beverage

    A fill weight drifts and the lot is held before it reaches the truck.

  • Aerospace and Defence

    An inspection reading trends toward the limit and the part is held before it moves on.

  • Don't see your industry?

    These use cases aren't tied to one. Tell us what you run and we'll show you where it fits.

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