Quality events, holds, and approvals as governed workflow instead of email and spreadsheets — visible to the people who must act, and evidenced for the people who audit.
Illustrative recordChoose a step or evidence row to inspect
STEP 03 · ApproveCurrent in example
Part 11 e-signature on the corrective action
Inspection only. The example record and its signature state stay unchanged.
Awaiting signature — Quality AssuranceMeaning: Approval · Re-authentication required · Hash-chained on signingAWAITING SIG
Illustrative record: a CAPA where AI, configured for this customer, drafts the investigation and Quality approves it.
PX-REC-01 · WHAT SHIPS
What ships in digital quality
CAPA and deviation extensions, product hold visibility, controlled approvals, audit-ready dashboards.
CAPA / deviation extensions
Quality events extend the same controlled workflow engine, so investigations and corrective actions carry the same evidence discipline as regulated IT work.
Product hold visibility
Holds surface against the affected product, batch, and systems, rather than living in one person’s inbox until someone asks.
Controlled approvals
Approvals carry signature meaning, re-authentication, and role segregation wherever a quality decision is made.
Audit-ready dashboards
Open events, aging, and closure evidence in one view — the view you can show an inspector without preparing for a week.
PX-REC-02 · CONTROLS AND EVIDENCE
The controls that apply, and the evidence they leave
The controls live inside the ServiceNow records, not in separate documents, and everything the workflow does leaves evidence.
Controls enforced
C1Part 11 signatures on quality decisions
C2Segregation between investigation, approval, and closure
C3Immutable history of every state change and comment
C4Configurable retention aligned to record type
Evidence produced
E1Investigation record linked to the affected product and systems
E2Approval chain with identity, timestamp, and meaning
E3Closure evidence attached to the event, not to a mailbox
E4Trend and aging views built from the records themselves
PX-REC-03 · CONTEXT · USDM.COM
The regulatory thinking behind these workflows
The manufacturing and quality context behind these workflows — Pharma 4.0, GMP, and the Part 11 baseline — is published on usdm.com.