Welcome to IATF NC CARA Tool Wiki

Welcome to the NC ARA information page. This page will answer all your questions about the IATF NC CARA (Common Audit Report Application). The idea behind the CARA is to create standardized audit reports and support the auditor on creating these reports. NC CARA enables users to complete their NC Management in a web based application and return standardized and well formatted data to auditors and CBs

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Usage

The application is available at nc-cara.iatfglobaloversight.org. It uses the browser to cache and save data. After starting the application it will be automatically saved in your browser and offline available. You can start it without any internet connection. All managed NC Actions will be saved in the browsers internal database and have to be additionally saved on your device using the save all reports function or the save report function. The browser database is connected to the clean browser cache functionality. Please make sure to save all reports on your device before cleaning the browsers cache.

Help documents

Please have a look at the video tutorial:

IATF NC CARA - NC Management Application Video Tutorial

Or our work instruction:

https://nc-cara.iatfglobaloversight.org/IATF-NC-CARA-Work-Instruction.pdf