Automated Man-Day Calculation

An intelligent, IAF-compliant audit duration calculation engine that eliminates manual errors, ensures transparency, and delivers accreditation-ready consistency across the entire audit lifecycle.

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Why Automated Man-Day Calculation Matters

Manual audit man-day calculation is one of the highest-risk areas for Certification Bodies. Errors in employee count interpretation, multi-site sampling, risk categorization, or reduction justification often lead to nonconformities during accreditation assessments.

CABAMS eliminates this risk by embedding IAF Mandatory Documents and ISO/IEC 17021-1 expectations directly into the system — ensuring that every calculation is standardized, explainable, and defensible.

CABAMS Automated Man-Day Calculation

Highly Intelligent Calculation Engine

CABAMS automatically extracts audit-relevant data directly from the client application (F01), ensuring no manual interpretation or duplication.

  • ✔ Employee strength & shifts
  • ✔ Number of sites & multi-site structure
  • ✔ Process complexity & industry risk
  • ✔ Scope, outsourcing & IMS applicability

Based on this data, the system dynamically applies all applicable IAF rules and reduction/addition factors without human bias.

Built-In IAF & ISO Compliance

CABAMS aligns man-day calculation strictly with the following mandatory documents:

✔ IAF MD 1 – Certification of Multiple Sites
✔ IAF MD 4 – Use of ICT
✔ IAF MD 5 – Audit Time
✔ IAF MD 8 – Auditors & Teams
✔ IAF MD 11 – IMS
✔ IAF MD 16, 22, 24, 25, 26

In addition, all calculations respect ISO/IEC 17021-1 competency, audit duration, and impartiality requirements.

CABAMS Contract Review Document

System-Generated Contract Review Document

Every calculation automatically produces a structured Contract Review Document that clearly explains:

  • ✔ Applicable ISO scheme rules
  • ✔ Scope & applicability justification
  • ✔ All reductions & additions with reasons
  • ✔ Required auditor competence

This ensures full transparency between Certification Body, auditors, and accreditation assessors.

Two-Level Approval Workflow

CABAMS enforces a mandatory approval sequence before man-days are finalized:

  1. Technical Reviewer validates rules, scope, and reductions
  2. Certification Manager approves final audit duration

No estimate, invoice, audit program, or audit plan can be generated until approvals are completed — ensuring strict impartiality control.

100%

Rule-Based Calculation

0

Manual Errors

Full

Audit Traceability

Ready

For Accreditation

Standardize Your Audit Calculations with Confidence

Eliminate interpretation risk, ensure IAF compliance, and defend every audit duration with a system built specifically for Certification Bodies.

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