NEWRCA Copilot is now in beta

The gold standard
for root cause
analysis in manufacturing.

Stop filling forms. RCAintel guides your engineers through structured 5-Why and Ishikawa, validates conclusions against plant history, and writes the corrective playbook for you.

5-Why · Ishikawa
Guided methodology
Quality gate
Audits every causal chain
Closed loop
Actions tracked to verification
↳ ROOT CAUSE FOUND
● Quality · 92/100
4 similar incidents found
app.rcaintel.io / rca / INC-2840
● LIVE
INC-2840 · Line 4 / Press #2
Servo overheat → unplanned stop
Critical
5-WHY · CAUSAL CHAIN
1
Why did the press stop?
Servo controller threw E-208 overtemperature.
2
Why overtemperature?
Cooling-fan RPM dropped below threshold for 14 min.
3
Why did fan RPM drop?
Bearing seized — lubrication interval missed by 38 days.
4
Why was lubrication missed?
CMMS PM task auto-snoozed when shift was short-staffed.
5
Why does the snooze rule exist?
Pre-2023 policy never reviewed after staffing change.ROOT CAUSE
Quality reviewer · passed
Causal chain intact · 4 similar incidents found
92/100
Built for high-complexity manufacturing
Automotive Tier 1AerospacePharma & BiotechFood & BeverageHeavy IndustryElectronics
How it works

From incident to corrective action, in one closed loop.

An 11-stage agent pipeline does the methodical work. Your engineers do the judgment.

Multi-agent pipeline

11 specialised agents do the methodical work — your engineers do the judgment.

Each stage has its own specialist: data wrangler, history retriever, 5-Why interrogator, Ishikawa drafter, quality reviewer. Step in or sign off — nothing happens without you.

01
Capture
02
Triage
03
History
04
5-Why
05
Ishikawa
06
Validate
07
Playbook
RUNNING · 04

5-Why interrogator is asking "Why was lubrication missed?"

step 4 / 7 · 0:42
Validate

Quality reviewer audits every causal chain.

No hand-waving. Findings are scored against the plant's methodological floor.

92
● Passed
Quality gate cleared
Causal chain intact · evidence cited · methodology floor met
Capture

Incident logged in 30s

Equipment, downtime, severity. Voice-to-text on the floor, structured by the time it hits the queue.

VOICE NOTE · 0:24

“Press 2 stopped, controller threw E-208 again, similar to last March…”

Investigate

Agents pull plant history

5 years of prior RCAs, similar failure modes, manufacturer bulletins — surfaced in seconds.

INC-2104Press #2 thermal trip84%
INC-1872Bearing seizure L471%
INC-1455Cooling-fan failure66%
Prevent

Auto-generated playbook

Owners assigned, due dates set, follow-ups verified before close. Closure stops being theater.

Replace bearing batchDone
Audit PM snooze policyToday
Update controller fw+2d
The problem

Most RCAs are forms nobody reads.

Root cause is guessed, not traced.
Evidence never cited or stored.
Actions created but never verified.
Same failure recurs 6 months later.
With RCAintel

Every RCA is rigorous, traceable, and prevents the next one.

AI-guided causal chain with evidence at every step.
Quality gate catches shallow analysis before sign-off.
Actions auto-linked to root cause and tracked to close.
Knowledge base prevents identical failures.
Use cases

Three problems engineering leaders bring to the first call

RCAintel is built for high-complexity manufacturing — automotive, aerospace, pharma, food, heavy industry, electronics. The pattern across all of them is the same: investigations that look thorough on paper, fail in audit, and recur.

Discrete manufacturing

Unplanned downtime on critical equipment

When a press, robot, or CNC stops, every minute is measurable revenue loss. RCAintel turns the next-day "what happened" meeting into a 30-minute structured 5-Why with cited evidence, prior-incident retrieval from your CMMS, and a corrective action signed before the line restarts.

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Quality & regulated

Recurring quality escapes and CAPA effectiveness findings

If your CAPA programme is collecting effectiveness findings from internal audits or external inspectors, the failure is structural: corrective actions are detached from defensible root causes. RCAintel rebuilds the chain by making a peer-reviewed RCA a prerequisite for any action, with verification evidence required before close.

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Continuous improvement

Same failure recurring across plants

Knowledge does not travel between sites when each RCA lives in a spreadsheet. RCAintel surfaces similar past incidents across your fleet by causal pattern, not keyword, so the next investigation starts from what was already learned somewhere else in the network.

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FAQ

Common questions

What buyers ask in the first call.

What does RCAintel actually do?

RCAintel guides manufacturing engineers through structured 5-Why and Ishikawa root cause analysis with an AI-assisted, multi-agent pipeline. It retrieves similar past incidents, drafts the next investigation step, scores the causal chain against a quality gate, and tracks corrective actions to verified closure.

How is this different from a generic CAPA tool or ticketing system?

Ticketing systems record outcomes. RCAintel runs the investigation itself: it refuses to accept a corrective action that is not bound to a defensible root cause, blocks shallow analyses at the quality gate, and requires evidence for every level of the causal chain.

Which industries is RCAintel built for?

Automotive, aerospace, pharma and biotech, food and beverage, heavy industry, and electronics. Anywhere unplanned downtime, scrap, or quality escapes cost real money and where auditors expect a defensible trail.

Will the AI make decisions on my behalf?

No. The agents do methodical work — drafting, retrieving, scoring. Every transition requires explicit human sign-off, and the audit log records who approved what and when. RCAintel is built for regulated environments where human accountability is non-negotiable.

How fast can we go live?

A pilot on one plant typically goes live in three to six weeks: data integration, workflow configuration, approval matrix, then live use with weekly tuning. Multi-site rollouts reuse the same configuration with site-level overrides.

Do I need to replace my MES, CMMS, or QMS?

No. RCAintel sits alongside existing systems and ingests incidents through API integrations or CSV import. The validated root cause and corrective actions can be pushed back to your CAPA system of record.

Make the next failure the last one.

Run your first RCA from day one — guided methodology, automatic quality gate, and a signed corrective action at the end.