Method

How Aligntra reads a quality system

A review reads your documents against the clauses of your standard and cites each finding to the passage it came from. Your auditor decides what happens to each one.

ISO 13485:2016 · run on the published example QMS

Minor NC §7.3.6 SOP-DC-001_Design_Control.pdf · p.10

Verification plans lack documented acceptance criteria, statistical techniques, and sample size rationale

"The project team shall determine the scope and methods of testing based on the nature of the design. Test results shall be documented and reviewed."
§6.5 Testing · p.10 · 459 characters Open at p.10 ↗
Nine standards PDFs, Word and Google Drive Re-runs skip unchanged documents
01Coverage

Nothing is sampled

Once a document is mapped to a clause, it is reviewed against that clause.

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  • Clauses are matched to documents before any document is judged
  • A clause with nothing behind it is recorded as a gap
  • One run, two paths: procedures against clauses, records against their procedures
swipe → Coverage: 188 of 292 clauses assessed, 104 left to cover, the biggest gap named
29 documents · 188 of 292 clauses assessed · the example QMS
02Evidence

Findings cite a page and a paragraph

A finding names the clause, the file, the page and the paragraph it relies on.

  • The quoted text is checked back against the document it came from
  • Located in the PDF by coordinate, including text set inside tables
  • Opening a finding opens the source at that page, passage highlighted
  • A quote that cannot be located is flagged for review
  • Clause wording comes from a stored copy of the standard. The model is not asked to produce it
swipe → A finding with its clause, file and page, and the verbatim quote it relies on
Minor NC · ISO 13485 §7.3.6 · SOP-DC-001, p.10 §6.5
03Adjudication

Your auditor decides

A person confirms, dismisses or reclassifies each finding.

  • Nothing is closed automatically
  • The record stores the citation and the decision together
  • Related clause failures are consolidated into one finding
  • Observations are listed with the findings and do not block a verdict
  • The readiness verdict follows the findings your auditor confirmed
swipe → The review queue: 44 findings to review, one already confirmed, each with its clause and document
44 to review of 45 findings · 1 confirmed · 8 Major NC · 28 Minor NC · 7 observations
What you get

At the end of a run

Four things, all of them exportable, all of them carrying the citation that produced them.

A coverage map

Which clauses were assessed, which documents were read against each, and which have nothing behind them.

assessed · unmapped · excluded, per clause

Findings with citations

Major and Minor non-conformities and observations, each cited to a file, a page and a paragraph.

Major NC · Minor NC · Observation

Audit questions

Eight to twelve questions drawn from your own procedures, each quoting the SOP it came from.

"SOP-DC-001 §6.5 requires test results to be documented and reviewed. Show me the verification plan for the most recent design change and the acceptance criteria it was judged against."

SOP-DC-001_Design_Control.pdf · §6.5 · maps to §7.3.6

An exportable record

Coverage, findings and the readiness verdict in one file, with a marked-up copy of the sources showing each finding in place.

Excel · PDF · JSON · marked-up PDF

See it on the example QMS

The same review, on the published example audit.