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Your organization already solved tomorrow’s failures.

A working RCA surface, not a blank form. Every investigation opens with a live analysis pipeline, any relevant prior cases, and a structured cause model already in motion.

DatumKeep · RCA WorkspaceINC-2024-0417scrap 0.62%
Line
STP-02 · die D-118
Part
B-pillar inner reinf · BPI-4471-L
Material
HSLA 340 · coil C-88213 · 1.6 mm
0.62%
SCRAP · 14 SHIFTS (TGT ≤0.15%)
3,140
AFFECTED PARTS · OEM PPM ALERT
Analysis pipeline
orchestratordone
knowledge_aggregatordone
historical_intel2 prior matchesdone
context_collectordone
analysis_agentdone
hypothesis_generator4 hypothesesdone
validatorrunning
playbook_generatorpending
quality_gatepending
report_generatorpending
Ishikawa · 6M
Edge splitDRAW STATION 3MACHINEBlank-holder −8%MATERIALCoil A50=19% (low)METHODClearance 0.18 vs 0.14MEASUREMENTNo in-die inspectionMANChecklist skipped ×2ENVIRONMENTDie temp uncontrolled
Day-1 generated questionsfrom the incident alone
Has die clearance at station 3 been measured since the last regrind?
What changed in coil supplier / lot vs. the last good run?
Is blank-holder pressure logged per shift on STP-02?
Root cause confirmed
Excess die clearance at station 3 (post-regrind) combined with a low-elongation coil lot → edge split.
Challenged against your company history and your organization's resolved experience — matched INC-2023-0291 (same die family) and a prior resolved stamping case.
Live RCA workspace · incident INC-2024-0417 · automotive stamping (Tier-1) · illustrative data
How it runs

An investigation with a spine you can see — and leave.

Day-1 intelligence, but never a free-for-all. Every analysis moves through named stages, each run by its own specialist — surfaced to you as 10 steps where the next does not open until the one before it has produced something real.

01

Triage & Containment

Incident data and initial containment actions

02

Evidence Capture

Photos, measurements, and on-site observations

03

Is / Is-Not Analysis

Structured comparison to isolate the failure

04

Change Point Timeline

Changes in 72h before the incident

05

Hypotheses

AI-generated and engineer-added root cause candidates

06

Evidence per Hypothesis

Targeted evidence collection for each hypothesis

07

Root Cause Declaration

Confirmed root cause and evidence chain

08

Actions & Control Plan

Corrective actions and verification plan

09

Closure Record

Documented information, read-across and the effectiveness criterion

10

Lessons Learned Review

Approve AI-generated lessons before report generation

Save and exit mid-investigation, and it waits. Nothing is lost and nothing is quietly finished for you — the analysis pauses exactly where it stands and resumes there when the engineer comes back.

The gate

The quality gate can say no.

One review, four possible outcomes. The count is the point: a gate that can only ever wave work through is not a gate at all.

Advance

It clears, and moves on

When the chain of evidence holds up, the gate advances the analysis to the report on its own — no ceremony, no manual push.

Send back

It sends the work back

Where the analysis is thin, the gate returns it to be strengthened and names what is weak — so a gap is fixed here, not discovered in the audit.

Proceed, on the record

You can proceed — it is recorded

You may take a mediocre analysis to a report, but the override is written down and carried into the report and its corrective actions. Proceeding is a decision with your name on it, not a silent default.

Blocked

Sometimes there is no proceed

When the evidence floor itself is not met, the decision has no user-facing override — the only way forward is back to analysis to put real evidence behind the conclusion.

And a decision nobody ever makes is marked unmade — a review left hanging is flagged as unresolved, never quietly waved through to a report.

Where it holds the line

The honesty is in what never reaches you.

Five things the investigation refuses to do quietly — each one visible in a live demo, none of them a setting you can turn against yourself.

A named team, and a second pair of eyes

An investigation carries the people on it, each with a role. When it is done a named reviewer is assigned — told by email and in-app — and their approve-or-return decision is recorded. Every inline edit is tracked to whoever made it.

When the AI was degraded, the report says so

A hypothesis drawn while a model was unavailable is labelled provisional and its confidence colouring is withheld — an unlabeled percentage on stand-in content is false precision. Degraded content can never satisfy the evidence floor, so it can never carry an investigation to sign-off.

A cause with no evidence never reaches you

Candidate causes are drawn strictly from this investigation’s own evidence, and every one has to cite a specific piece of it. A cause that can cite nothing is discarded before it ever reaches your screen — not shown with a caveat pinned to it.

Lessons wait for an engineer to approve them

Every lesson the analysis proposes stops at a person. Approve it, edit it, or reject it — only the approved and edited ones publish, each stamped with who approved it and when. Nothing writes itself into what your plants will search tomorrow.

Recurrence stops the work and asks you to acknowledge it

When a failure is recognised as one you have investigated before, the pipeline holds. Before it goes on, it asks the engineer to acknowledge — in as many words — that the last set of corrective actions may not have held.

The output

One click to an audit-ready report.

Every analysis resolves into the same five-section report — traceable, author-tracked, and exportable for your audit without reformatting.

report previewExport PDF
Root Cause Analysis Report
RPT-2024-1180 · CONFIDENTIAL
Generated 2026-06-14 09:32
Author D.M. · Rev 3
Status Approved
1

Executive summary

A recurring process deviation on a primary production line was investigated, the systemic cause confirmed against prior history, and a sequenced corrective plan issued. No personal fault identified.

2

Root cause

A process-control gap allowed an upstream parameter to drift uncorrected between scheduled maintenance, producing the observed failure mode under specific operating conditions.

3

Evidence

Conclusions are traced to source records — operating logs, maintenance history, and matched prior incidents.

3 prior matchescal-logCMMS work ordershift records
4

Corrective actions

Sequenced as SOP update → crew training → field verification, with closure gated on confirmed production evidence.

5

Sign-off

D.M.Investigator
Signed 2026-06-14 09:30
A.G.Quality approver
Approved 2026-06-14 09:32
Generated by DatumKeep · author-trackedPage 1 / 1 · v3 · 09:32 UTC
Audit-ready 8D report (D1–D8) · headline sections shown · neutral example · author- and timestamp-tracked

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