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If you answered Yes to all these
questions, then congratulations! You have a robust CAR system in place already!
If you got one or two No’s, your system may need some
improvements
CAR
System Check Sheet
Can the CAR System provide a Product/Process Knowledge Base for users
to look up failure and action history?
Can the CAR System report the effectiveness by using the trending of
Risk Category, Quality Cost, and Defective quantity?
Can the CAR System summarize top 10 failure modes and rank them by Risk
Category, Quality Cost, and Defective
quantity?
Can the CAR System prioritize CARs, utilizing Risk Category, Quality
Cost, and Defective quantity?
Monitoring and Verification
Phase
Can the CAR System record user verifications for action results?
Can the CAR System record user’s comments and implemented actions?
Can the CAR System record Real Root Cause and action plans?
Root Cause Analysis and
Implementation Phase
Can the CAR System record Failure Risk Category?
Can the CAR System record Failure Mode?
Can the CAR System record Quality Cost?
Can the CAR System record Preliminary Root Case?
Initiating and Preliminary
Study Phase
No
Yes
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