I have created a Windows software application, which I have named QMSCAPA, for internal auditing, corrective action requests, preventive action requests and other quality management system elements.

My objectives are to provide a low cost ISO software tool that is very robust, multi-user, easy to use and very easy to adapt for many types of businesses.

From a software point of view, I have learned that measuring quality and customer satisfaction can be infinite. How many times have you heard, “an X bar R chart can be used to measure anything”?

Of course, well written customer surveys can be an effective tool for collecting customer satisfaction feed-back and the summary of data can be very straight forward. Therefore, I have designed the QMSCAPA Customer Survey module to include:

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• A database for client or customer data;
• A methodology to print or email surveys to individual client or customers’;
• User customizable survey forms;
• One to a hundred survey questions that can be user defined;
• Survey answers may scored on a scale of 1 to 10, or 1 to 100;
• A data collection and input program to record survey results;
• A variety of survey reports for results.

How do you survey and collect customer satisfaction information?

My next challenge is to incorporate a generic tool to identify quality metrics for many types of measurements, products and services, like:

• Quantity of achievements vs. quantity of failures;
• Due dates vs. actual dates;
• Variable A vs. Variable B;
• Other generic variables, etc.

How do you measure quality?

What tools do you use to record quality related data?