Assess Your Containment Readiness

Even one defect escape can impact production schedules, customer satisfaction, and supplier relationships. This quick assessment helps you benchmark your containment readiness across critical areas—launch speed, trending recognition, documentation, resources, and third-party support—so you can identify risks before they escalate.

1. Do you have a dedicated internal team for visual inspection and containment?

2. Are standard work instructions updated and consistently followed?

3. How quickly can you launch containment when a quality issue is discovered?

4. Is your team trained to identify trending quality issues before escalation?

5. Are current inspection resources stretched or operating overtime?

6. Do you track and report containment effectiveness by defect type?

7. Have you experienced any customer escapes in the past 6 months?

8. Do you have a back-up plan if in-house containment resources are unavailable?

9. Do you currently use or have access to third-party support?

10. Are your containment activities documented and traceable for audits?