An audit finding is a non-conformance — and a major one is the natural entry point to Fast Quality's formal 8D, CAPA and NCR documents. Both modules sit on the same document and status engine, so a major NC escalates into a corrective-action document with its clause, discrepancy, category and evidence already filled in. Standalone Fast Audit still closes NCs in its own trail; the 8D linkage is an upsell, not a dependency.
Not every finding needs a full 8D. Fast Audit closes minor NCs in its own multi-role closure trail; a major or repetitive one escalates into a formal corrective-action document in Fast Quality on the same status engine. You decide which findings warrant the escalation. Explore the QMS at fastqualitysoftware.com.
Every finding the auditor logs is a document on the shared engine. A minor NC closes in the audit trail; a major one escalates into the 8D / CAPA / NCR document with the finding already populated.
Each item below is a native connection on the shared document engine — the finding, its evidence and its status are the same records read by Fast Quality, not a file passed between systems.
Fast Audit is a complete audit-management system on its own. A finding closes in its own CAPA / NC-closure trail — an append-only history per finding recording status, updated-by, due date and remarks, advanced through a multi-role sign-off from auditee to system co-ordinator to auditor. Explore it in findings, NC & CAPA closure. Nothing here needs another product to function.
When a finding warrants a formal corrective action, it escalates into an 8D, CAPA or NCR in Fast Quality — and because both modules share the same document engine, the clause, discrepancy, NC category, fresh-versus-repetitive flag and evidence carry across. The auditor doesn't re-type the finding into a second system. The 8D's disciplines — containment, root cause, corrective and preventive action, verification — run from there. See the QMS at fastqualitysoftware.com.
The reason escalation needs no re-keying is that both modules read the same masters. Auditees, auditors, plants and suppliers are the same party and user records used across the suite, so the 8D owner and the auditee are one person, and the finding's clause, category and evidence are the same records — read by Fast Quality, not copied into it. Add the 8D / CAPA / NCR upsell whenever you're ready; the audit closes NCs on its own until you do.
A major finding opens a formal 8D with the clause and discrepancy carried over — containment and root cause run in Fast Quality.
Where a full 8D is more than needed, the finding escalates into a CAPA — corrective and preventive action tracked to a verified close.
A finding can raise a formal NCR in Fast Quality's register with the clause, category and evidence already attached from the audit.
Escalation is a status advance on the shared document engine, not an export and re-import — the full audit trail is preserved.
Auditees, auditors, plants and suppliers are the same party and user records, so the 8D owner and the auditee are one entry.
If only Fast Audit is licensed, findings close in its own CAPA / NC-closure trail — the 8D linkage is an upsell, never a dependency.
In a 30-minute demo we'll raise a major non-conformance on an audit, close a minor one in the audit trail, and escalate the major one into an 8D in Fast Quality — with the finding already filled in.
