Aerospace Quality — From First Article to Certificate of Conformity

• Three forms from the partA first article is built from the part's characteristics; the revision is frozen and approval is a personal e-signature.
• The server holds the gateThe rule runs on the server, not on the screen; a record does not advance until its condition is met.
• No certification claimPORTWARE supports an organisation's quality system; software cannot be certified to AS9100.

An aerospace supplier's quality system asks specific things of its software. This application adds them on top of PLM, purchasing, stock and quality records. It is chosen per installation.

PORTWARE is software. An accredited body certifies an organisation to AS9100; software cannot be certified to it. The items below describe what the software provides.

What It Supports

• First article inspection. Supports AS9100D requirements: three forms from the part, frozen revision, personal e-signature.
• Characteristics. Key, critical and safety characteristics stay with the part through revisions.
• Approved suppliers. Orders for controlled parts go only to approved suppliers, with requirements flowed down and acknowledged.
• Suspect lots. A suspect lot is quarantined by the server: it cannot ship or be consumed.
• Certificate of conformity. A controlled part ships only with a signed certificate of conformity.
• Nonconformity. Concessions and scrap close only under their rules, and corrective action only with verified effectiveness.
• Configuration. Revisions, frozen baselines and changes through a signed board keep configuration under control.

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First Article Inspection

The record starts from the part. Its characteristics come to the forms and the revision is frozen. Results are entered and the gates run on the server. An expired instrument or a missing authorisation stops the approval. The last step is a personal e-signature.

Supply Chain

An approval holds the supplier, the scope and the validity date. A suspended or expired approval does not count. The gate is a company setting. When an order is confirmed its requirements are copied to it, printed on it and kept as sent. A receipt waits for the supplier's acknowledgement.

Risk, Tooling and Authorisation

The risk register holds likelihood, severity, score, mitigation and residual risk. A high risk cannot be accepted without mitigation. The tooling register shows kind, part and customer ownership. Personal authorisations for inspector, first article approver, certificate signatory and material review are dated; a gate refuses an expired one.

AS9100D Matrix

The matrix lists every clause with its status: Covered, Partial or the Organisation's duty. Partial rows say what is not in the software. Procedures, training and management decisions belong to the organisation.

With Cowork

Cowork reads the first article list, a part's status, a supplier's approval and the compliance summary. Writing, such as a suspect lot or a first article result, runs with the user's rights and approval.