Aerospace and defense · AS9100D · AS9102

First articles, nonconformances and changes, traceable to the characteristic.

Aerospace and defense suppliers answer to AS9100 and their customers' flow-downs. Keep first article inspections, nonconformances, corrective actions, changes, calibration and suppliers in one workspace, with every change recorded and access limited to exactly who needs it.

What you keep in Qualsted
  • First article inspection reports (AS9102 forms 1, 2 and 3)
  • Nonconforming product and its disposition
  • Corrective action
  • Configuration and engineering changes
  • Calibration of inspection equipment
  • Approved suppliers and special processes
Who uses it
  • Quality and inspection
  • Manufacturing engineering
  • Supplier and special-process control

People who only need to look, such as managers, auditors and customers, get free viewer seats.

In practice

What it looks like.

First article inspections on a board by status: Open, Inspected and Closed.
First article inspections, each approved by signature.
A table of inspected characteristics with requirement, limits, measured result and a Conforms column showing Pass or Fail.
Characteristics against drawing limits, with conformance calculated.

Screens show sample data from a fictional company.

How it supports your standard

The clauses your auditor asks about, and what answers them.

Qualsted gives you the technical controls and the records; your procedures, training and verification of your own configuration complete the picture.

Clause How Qualsted helps
AS9100D §8.5.1.3 · AS9102 First article inspection. A first article per part number and revision, with materials, special processes and each design characteristic recorded against its requirement, and approval by quality.
AS9100D §7.5 Documented information. Controlled records with complete history; access limited by folder, table and page, with every change recorded.
AS9100D §8.7 Control of nonconforming outputs. Nonconformances dispositioned (use as is, rework, scrap, return) and approved, linked to corrective action.
AS9100D §10.2 Corrective action. Root cause, actions and effectiveness checks, approved and reminded before due dates.
AS9100D §8.5.6 Control of changes. Changes proposed, assessed and approved before they're made.
AS9100D §8.4 External providers. Approved suppliers with risk, certificates and requalification.
Templates

Start from these, installed in one click.

Working processes with review signatures, reminders and views set up, as ordinary tables and pages you can change.

Operations

First article inspection (AS9102)

First article inspection reports following AS9102: part number accountability, materials, special processes and functional tests, and each design characteristic measured against its requirement (pass or fail is calculated), approved by Quality.

  • First articles 15 columns · IDs like FAI-0001 · signed: Approved by
  • Characteristics 12 columns · IDs like CHR-0001

AS9102 · AS9100 §8.5.1.3 · IATF 16949 §8.6.2

Quality

Nonconformances

Product or material that doesn't meet requirements: identify it, decide its disposition, and get it approved.

  • Nonconformances 14 columns · IDs like NC-0001 · signed: Disposition approved by
  • Reminder: Nonconformance due in 3 days
  • Reminder: Nonconformance overdue

ISO 9001 §8.7 · ISO 13485 §8.3 · FDA QMSR (21 CFR 820) · AS9100 §8.7 · IATF 16949 §8.7

Quality

Deviations and CAPA

Record deviations, assess their impact, and open a corrective and preventive action when one is needed. CAPAs are reviewed and approved, with reminders before they fall due.

  • Deviations 15 columns · IDs like DEV-0001 · signed: QA approval
  • CAPA 13 columns · IDs like CAPA-0001 · signed: Reviewed by, Approved by
  • Reminder: Deviation due in 3 days
  • Reminder: Deviation overdue
  • Reminder: CAPA due in 3 days
  • Reminder: CAPA overdue

21 CFR 211.192 · FDA QMSR (21 CFR 820) · ISO 13485 §8.5.2 · ISO 9001 §10.2 · EU GMP Ch. 1

Quality

Change control

Propose, assess and approve changes to processes, equipment, materials or documents before they're made.

  • Change requests 13 columns · IDs like CC-0001 · signed: Assessed by, Approved by
  • Reminder: Change due in 3 days
  • Reminder: Change overdue

FDA QMSR (21 CFR 820) · ISO 13485 §7.3.9 · ISO 9001 §6.3 · EU GMP Annex 15 · ICH Q10

Operations

Equipment and calibration

An equipment register with calibration records reviewed by Quality, and reminders two weeks before calibration falls due.

  • Equipment 8 columns · IDs like EQ-0001
  • Calibrations 9 columns · IDs like CAL-0001 · signed: Reviewed by
  • Reminder: Calibration due in 14 days
  • Reminder: Calibration overdue

21 CFR 211.68 · FDA QMSR (21 CFR 820) · ISO 9001 §7.1.5 · ISO/IEC 17025 §6.4 · ISO 13485 §7.6

Operations

Supplier qualification

Approved suppliers with their risk, certificates and qualification, approved by Quality and requalified every year.

  • Suppliers 10 columns · IDs like SUP-0001 · signed: Approved by
  • Reminder: Requalification due in 30 days

FDA QMSR (21 CFR 820) · ISO 9001 §8.4 · ISO 13485 §7.4 · AS9100 §8.4 · EU GMP Ch. 5

See all templates

AI assistant · add-on

Ask your records, in your own words.

The assistant answers questions about your tables, draws charts and summarizes long records. It sees only what you can see, never changes or signs anything, and every use is logged.

How the assistant works

Help · Ask the assistant

Which first articles failed a characteristic this quarter?

Summarize NC-0142 and its disposition.

Answers come from the records you can see, with charts and links to them.

Questions

What aerospace and defense teams ask us.

Is it CMMC or ITAR ready?

Not as certified environments. Qualsted runs in AWS in the United States with access control and audit trails, but it isn't certified for CMMC and isn't a FedRAMP or ITAR-controlled environment. Don't store controlled unclassified information or export-controlled technical data in it.

Can we keep AS9102 forms?

The first article template follows AS9102's three forms: part number accountability, product accountability (materials, special processes, functional tests) and characteristic accountability, with each characteristic as its own record.

See it with your own process

Bring one workflow. We'll build it with you in the demo.