How to use paperless quality checks with e-signature

Factbird Quality & Compliance digitalizes and standardizes shopflooractivities such as quality checks, shift handovers, and other critical tasks.

Frontline teams follow guided steps, sign off with built-in eSignature, and therecords are always audit-ready, supporting regulatory requirements like 21 CFRPart 11.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

Log information and sign off digitally

Next, you will learn how to:

Setting up operator profiles and e-signature (Video)
Enabling e-signature on an activity template (Video)
Editting a submitted activity (Video)
Editing an operator profile (Video)
Changing an e-signature PIN (Video)
Handling PIN lockout and unlocking (Video)
Deactivating and reactivating e-signature profiles (Video)
View the audit log of every activity and version history (Video)

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