What goes in
If your team asks the same questions on a regular basis and has to act on the answers, it can be a checklist in Audera. Some common places to start:
- Setup and changeover checks. Does the setup match the sheet for this job? Was first piece signed off before the run started?
- Safety and 5S walks. Guards in place, aisles clear. A photo of the problem tells more than a checkmark.
- Product and packaging checks. Labels, counts, carton markings and the customer's packaging rules.
- Supplier reviews. Ask the same questions every time you visit or review a supplier, so the answers can be compared.
- Customer checklists. When a customer sends their audit list, load it and work through it before they show up.
- Internal questionnaires. Maintenance rounds, shift handoff, a monthly housekeeping review.
Layered process audits are the most structured version of this. Operators, supervisors and managers check the same process on different schedules. That has its own page: LPA software.
Building the questions
Type them in, copy a starter template, or upload the Word or PDF checklist you use now and have the AI pull the questions out. You can also describe the audit in plain words and let AI draft it. AI drafts are suggestions. Someone on your team accepts or edits each question before the audit goes live.
Not every answer is pass or fail. A question can take a yes or no, a reading checked against limits, a pick from a list, a written note with a photo, or a signature. A reading outside the limits fails on its own.
How it grows
Nobody needs fifty audits on day one. Here is a sensible order. You set the pace.
- One checklist, one area. Run it with the people who already do the check. Expect to rewrite a few questions after the first week.
- More audit types. Add the safety walk or the supplier review next to the first one. Same scheduling, same list of open items.
- More shifts and departments. Schedule by shift and area, and load the plant calendar so audits skip holidays and shutdowns.
- Layers. When you want supervisors and managers checking the same process as the operators, set it up as a layered process audit. How LPAs work.
- More sites. Copy a checklist that works at one plant to another. It arrives turned off, so the second site can adjust it before it goes live.
The first checklist and its history stay put while you add to it.
When something fails
A failed answer goes on an open list with a name next to it. It stays there until someone marks it resolved. If it sits too long, Audera emails the responsible person, then the department leader.
Example, not a customer case
One check at a packaging station
Question: Is the posted work instruction the current revision for this job?
Answer: Fail. Rev C is on the station. Rev D was released last week. Photo attached.
Then: Assigned to the area supervisor. It stays open until Rev D is posted and someone finds out how Rev C was still there.
Where to go next
Audera is software for running checks and following up on them. It does not certify a facility or guarantee compliance, and it is not a document control system.
For the software itself, pricing and how it compares, see audit software. For ready-made starting points, see the checklist templates. Planning a safety program audit? Read the safety audit guide.
Looking for the formal audit types (process, product, system, supplier)? ASQ has a good summary.