Product · Triage in depth

Triage that asks your questions

Configure the screening questions your process actually asks. Let answers carry a preconfigured severity suggestion. Document who must be interviewed — and run the interview on the record. And when ink is required: print the form, sign on paper, and file the original in your validated QMS.

The flow

From first report to a documented decision

Every new event lands on the Triage Board and moves through one visible path — screened, questioned, decided — so nothing waits in an inbox for a routing call.

Step 1
Raised
The event is reported and lands on the Triage Board — visible from the first minute.
Step 2
QA Screening
Preliminary severity, owning function, stakeholders — with a More-info loop that names what is missing, who owes it, and by when.
Step 3
Documented decision
The routing decision is recorded with its rationale, creates its follow-ups, and moves the card into the Decision Log.

Deviation required

A genuine departure: the deviation is raised and investigated in your validated QMS — OgmaQ tracks the reference number and what happens next.

Process comment

A minor, in-control observation — recorded together with the documented reason it is not a deviation.

No further action

Assessed and closed with the justification on the record — and a stronger justification required when the risk signals are high.

Duplicate / existing record

Already captured — linked to the existing record so the history stays in one place.

Eight routing outcomes in all — including urgent management review, more information required, and a link to an existing QMS record — each with its own required fields, and follow-ups where the outcome creates them.

Configurable questions

The questions are yours

Triage lives or dies on asking the right things. In OgmaQ the screening and decision questions are admin-managed question sets, scoped by form type, site and department — the most specific match wins, with one default as the fallback.

  • Edit question text and help, set required and restricted flags, reorder, add your own
  • Seven answer types — yes/no, yes/no/unknown, dropdowns, multi-select, text, number, date
  • System questions stay bound to the fields the closure and severity engines read; custom questions ride alongside
  • System questions retire, never delete — and every record keeps a snapshot of the exact questions it was asked
  • Every change is versioned and audited the moment it goes live
Administration · Triage questions
Set: Default GMP Triage v7 · audited
01
Is production stopped?
System · Yes / No / Unknown · Required · Affects severity
02
Possible impact to product quality?
System · Yes / No / Unknown · Affects severity
03
Which cleanroom suite?
Custom · Text
04
Customer shipment at risk?
Custom · Yes / No · Decision stage
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Illustrative product interface — demo data
Preconfigured severity

Answers carry a suggested severity

Mark which answers affect severity and the level each one suggests. As screening answers land, OgmaQ shows a suggested severity — with the reason, question by question. No black box.

  • Severity influence is configured per answer option — by your admins, to your rules
  • The suggestion explains itself: the driving answers are named alongside the level
  • Decision support only — the reviewer sets the severity, and changing it at decision time requires a written reason
  • An optional risk-scoring overlay (factors, weights, score bands) can add a recommended severity and priority — applied only through a documented, audited override
Try it · answers → suggested severity
Possible impact to product quality?
Is production stopped?
Is the issue still ongoing?
Suggested severity High
Driven by: possible product quality impact

The suggestion is decision support only — the reviewer sets the severity, and a change at decision time needs a written reason.

Illustrative example — severity influence is configured per answer option in Administration
Structured interviews

Decide who must be interviewed — then run it on the record

When triage calls for personnel interviews, the requirement becomes part of the record — who decided, why, whether QA must confirm the outcome — and closure waits for the interviews until they are complete. The interview itself runs in OgmaQ, on your question set.

  • The requirement is a documented decision — owner, rationale and QA confirmation on the record — and once interviews are required, closure waits until each one is completed, or waived or deferred with a recorded reason
  • Your 5M&E question set — People · Method · Material · Environment · Machinery — admin-managed and versioned
  • Each interview keeps its own question snapshot; a later template edit never rewrites a captured interview
  • Waive, defer or remove only with a reason — audited, with follow-ups landing in My Actions
Escalation · Interviews
Personnel interviews requiredBlocks closure
QA confirmation required · decision owner and rationale on record
Line operator — night shift
5M&E · interviewer assigned
Incomplete
Shift lead
5M&E · saved and complete
Saved
Materials handler
Waived — reason recorded
Waived
Questions

Asked and answered

Can we change the triage questions ourselves?

Yes. Administrators manage the triage question sets directly — question text, help text, required flags, answer types, ordering and severity influence. Changes go live versioned and audited, and every escalation keeps a snapshot of the exact questions it was asked.

Does OgmaQ set the severity automatically?

No. Answers can carry a preconfigured severity suggestion, shown with its rationale question by question — but it is decision support only. The reviewer sets the severity, and changing it at decision time requires a written reason.

Can interviews be signed electronically in OgmaQ?

No — deliberately. OgmaQ prints a Personnel Interview Record with blank signature and date lines for handwriting. Signatures are applied on paper, outside OgmaQ: it does not capture, witness, verify or authenticate them, and the export is not an electronic-signature record.

Where does the signed interview record live?

The signed original is filed in your validated QMS under your own procedures — the QMS remains the system of record. A scan can be kept with the escalation as evidence, alongside the QMS reference number.

See triage on your own process.

Book a walkthrough and we will run the whole path — your questions, severity rules, interviews and the print-and-sign hand-off — on your workflow.

Or email hello@ogmaq.com directly.