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.