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Okko Oulasvirta
Manufacturing

Quality Root Cause Assistant

Bring process conditions, material batches and inspection results together so root cause analysis takes hours rather than weeks.

The decision it supports

What process or material conditions are associated with this quality deviation?

What changes

Faster containment, fewer recurring defect modes and a searchable record of what was actually found.

Data domains

  • Quality
  • Production
  • Supply chain
  • Product and engineering

Interactive preview

Quality Root Cause Assistant is described here as an opportunity rather than shown as a working demonstration. The interactive build for this industry is Production Exception Manager — it uses the same primitives, the same governed data model and the same decision-to-action pattern this application would.

We build one flagship per industry properly rather than four shallow ones. The pattern transfers.

The workflow

  1. 01A defect pattern is flagged from inspection and scrap data
  2. 02Process conditions around the affected batches are assembled automatically
  3. 03Material lots and supplier batches in scope are identified
  4. 04Candidate correlations are surfaced with the evidence behind them
  5. 05The engineer confirms, rejects or annotates each hypothesis
  6. 06Containment and corrective actions are raised and tracked

Platform capabilities most relevant here

  • OneLake

    One governed copy of enterprise data that analytics, AI and applications can all build on.

  • Lakehouse

    Refine raw operational data into something a business application can rely on.

  • Curated business entities

    Agree once what an order, an asset or a customer means — then reuse it everywhere.

  • Data science and ML

    Predict what is likely to happen next so people can act before it does.

  • Generated data APIs

    Let application teams consume governed data without rebuilding the data foundation.

  • Workflows and approvals

    Keep accountability visible when a decision needs a second pair of eyes.

Not every application needs every capability. This is the subset that this decision actually depends on.

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