Nothing to install
NCRLog is one file that opens in Chrome or Edge, the browser already on the computer. No installer, no admin rights and no server, so there is nothing for IT to approve or set up.
NCRLogNonconformance reports and quarantine
Write up every nonconformance once, and know what is on hold.
A new NCR is asked with guided questions, a card at a time, or filled in on the full form, as each person likes. It prints whole, with a quarantine tag for the product on hold, and the quarantine report says what is on hold, where and for how long. Every NCR lives in one Excel workbook in the plant’s shared folder. Open one file in Chrome or Edge on each computer, with nothing to install.
Quality and manufacturingOn sale soon · v1.0.0
- Price
- $249 once, for your whole organization.
- Delivery
- Download straight after payment. One HTML file that opens in Chrome or Edge: no install, no server, no account, no network.
- Updates
- Version 1.0.0 at launch. Every 1.x release, from the same download link.
No IT involvement
Buy it today. It works tomorrow morning.
NCRLog runs in the browser you already have, from one file. One person can buy it this afternoon and the next shift can use it: no install, no IT ticket, and nothing leaving your network. Your data stays in your own files, in the folders your team already uses.
No account
Nobody signs up or signs in to anything of ours. Open the file and start work: there is no license server to reach and no subscription to lapse.
Runs offline
It makes no network requests at all. It works on a line with no internet, and nothing you type is ever sent to us or to anyone else.
Stays on your network
Every NCR, with the fields, lists and extra questions your plant uses, is one ordinary Excel workbook in a shared folder on your network drive, with old versions of it kept beside it.
How it works
Three steps, and every NCR goes the same way.
Set it up once
Make a folder everyone who writes up NCRs can open and write to, such as a shared drive or a synced folder, and choose it in NCRLog. Choose Set up admin and set a passcode, then choose your plant's fields, lists and extra questions on Settings. Every other computer chooses the same folder.
Write up what you found
Answer the guided questions a card at a time, or fill in the full form: what was found, the product, how much, whether it is on hold, the cause and what happens to it. Check the NCR says what is still missing before you save it into the database.
Hold it and follow it up
Print the NCR and its quarantine tag for the product on hold. The NCRs page counts what is not closed, overdue and in quarantine, and the quarantine report says what is on hold, where and for how long.
What it does
The NCR, the tag, the quarantine report, and one workbook that keeps them.
Try it before you set anything up: Try it with made-up NCRs, on the first screen, opens a made-up plant’s NCRs, some overdue and some on hold. Nothing in the demo is saved, and a blank template is there to fill in in Excel.
Write up an NCR
Guided questions or the full form- Guided questions, a card at a time: What did you find?, The product, How much is affected?, Is it on hold?, What caused it?, What happens to it? and Who follows it up?
- Check the NCR lists what still needs filling in, each with Go to it, before you save
- Or Show the full form: every section on one page, with a bar that goes to each
- Each person's choice is remembered on their computer, and switching keeps every answer
- The NCR # is the next one after your prefix, NCR-0001 to start with
- Root cause takes up to five whys, with the actions beside them
Print it
The NCR, its quarantine tag and your own forms- Print the NCR: every section with its answers, a line to write on where one is still empty, and lines to sign
- Print quarantine tag: one letter page, black on white, to go with the product on hold
- Print forms opens the PDF, Excel and Word forms your plant keeps in the database's folder, and never changes them
Quarantine
What is on hold, where, and for how long- Every NCR on hold, grouped by location, with the days on hold, the quantity and the hold tag
- Totals by location, added up by unit
- Those on hold longer than your plant's flag, 30 days to start with, are marked
- Print the report, or save it as a workbook or a CSV file
One Excel database
In the plant's shared folder, no server- NCRLog Database.xlsx holds every NCR, with the plant's settings, fields, lists and extra questions
- Before each save, the file as it was is kept in an Old versions folder beside it: the original, the last copy of each earlier day and the 20 most recent
- The database is read before each save and your changes go on top; one that clashes with another computer's waits under Needs review, never saved over theirs
- An NCR register a team kept in Excel opens as it is, read by its own headings, with its own columns and sheets kept
- Each change is noted with the name typed on the form, and an NCR taken out is kept on a hidden sheet, with Undo
Your plant's fields and lists
Chosen by an admin- Which fields the plant uses, and which must be filled in
- The drop-down lists, from priorities and dispositions to locations and suppliers, typed in or read from an Excel lists file
- The plant name on every printout and the NCR # prefix
- The plant's own extra questions: text, Yes, No or N/A, a date or a number
- With a passcode set, only an admin changes these
In the Alderworks Quality Suite
The seventh app, after EquipLog- NCRLog Database.xlsx is kept in its own folder in the suite's shared folder, with Old versions beside it
- NCRLog follows the suite's one admin, and the team lists are offered in its name boxes
- An NCR on hold goes on ShiftHandover's quarantine list with Put on hold in, with its NCR #, product and quantity
Honest about what it is
The admin passcode stops accidents, not people: it is kept in the workbook as a one-way check, never as the passcode itself, and anyone who can edit that workbook in Excel can clear it. What keeps the records honest is who can write to the shared folder. Your name on the form is typed, not a sign-in.
What it is not
NCRLog is a record-keeping aid, not a validated quality management system. It does not decide a disposition or whether product on hold may be used: what it keeps is what you record. Check that the records it keeps meet your own quality system before relying on them.
A closer look
The questions, the form, the quarantine report, the tag and the settings.
Price
$249, once. Your whole plant, every computer you have.
One payment licenses NCRLog to your organization, not to a seat, so everyone who writes up an NCR and every admin can use it. The download starts as soon as payment completes, the link is emailed to you, and the same link fetches every 1.x update. Stripe sends the receipt and an invoice for your records.
All sales are final. NCRLog is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and the copy you download is yours to keep. Look through the screenshots on its page to see whether it fits before you buy.
NCRLog goes on sale soon.
Add it to your suite. Every Alderworks app you buy counts toward the $599 Alderworks Quality Suite, all nine apps in one file. With NCRLog bought, the other eight together cost you $350 at most: each costs its own price until the one that would take you past $599, which costs only what is left and brings every app.
If there is ever a 2.0. It is a new purchase; your 1.x license keeps working and keeps getting 1.x releases.
Questions before or after buying go to support@alderworks.dev and reach someone who worked on NCRLog. Answered by email, as soon as we can; we do not promise a response time.
What IT will ask. The license agreement that comes in the download, what the tool sends and stores in security, and what a purchase shares with us in privacy.
Checking the file. The current download is NCRLog_1.0.0.zip, 1,252,035 bytes. Its SHA-256 fingerprint is below; anyone can confirm the file they received is the one we published by running certutil -hashfile NCRLog_1.0.0.zip SHA256 on Windows or shasum -a 256 NCRLog_1.0.0.zip on a Mac, and comparing.94694f592438ab433fa223e77e4905e50a6f0bc35248f584c9eae7d5854e11d3
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