Insight to performing first article inspection FAI:

Characteristic Accountability

The Company shall verify and record the results of every design characteristic during first article inspection FAI. Every design characteristic shall have its own unique characteristic number.

NOTE: Reference characteristics may be omitted from the first article inspection FAI.

NOTE: Use more than one line if needed for any characteristic.

NOTE: Characteristics not measurable in the final product shall be verified by destructive means or during the manufacturing process (as long as they are not affected by subsequent operations). Characteristics verified at the detail level may be referenced in the assembly-level first article inspection report (FAIR).

Record of Results

Results from inspection of design characteristics shall be expressed in quantitative terms when a design characteristic is expressed by numerical limits. The Company shall record the results in the units specified on the drawing or specification unless otherwise approved by the Customer. Go/no-go data may be used when the design characteristic does not specify numerical limits (e.g., break all sharp edges) or an inspection technique is unavailable to provide quantitative terms. Go/no-go data may also be used when qualified tooling is used as a check feature for a specific characteristic.

Click here to go to the first article inspection procedure FAI.

Sixteen (16) Required Procedures:
Calibration (7.6)
Configuration management (7.3.7)
Contract review (7.2.2)
Control of nonconforming product (8.3)
Control of documents (4.2.3)
Control of production and service (7.5.1)
Control of records (4.2.4)
Corrective and preventive actions (8.5.2, 8.5.3)
Design development (7.3.4)
Internal audit (8.2.2)
Management Review (5.6)
Purchasing (7.4)
Receiving (7.4.3)
Responsibility and authority (5.5)
Shipping (7.2.1, 7.5.1, 7.5.5)
Training (6.2.2)

Eighteen (18) Required Records:
Calibration (7.6)
Contract review (7.2.2)
Control of nonconforming product (8.3)
Corrective action (8.5.2)
Customer property (7.5.4)
Design and development change (7.3.7)
Design and development inputs (7.3.2)
Design and development review (7.3.4)
Design and development validation (7.3.6)
Design and development verification (7.3.5)
Identification and traceability, if required (7.5.3)
Internal audits (8.2.2)
Management review minutes (5.6.1)
Monitoring and measurement of product (8.2.4)
Preventive action (8.5.3)
Planning of product realization (7.1)
Supplier evaluation (7.4.1)
Training (6.2.2)

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- Efficient QMS™ -

Are you driven to convert your effective or undocumented QMS into an efficient quality management system to survive implementation and maintenance of standards like AISC, AS9100, AS9110, AS9120, ISO 9001, FAA FIS, FAA PMA, FAA Repair Station, Nadcap, USACE or other comprehensive QMS that you know is required to compete in today's world market?

Do you need realtime access to your QMS system and records using any device in your toolbox that can connect to the internet with a Browser?

Think of the advantages you'll have when you can remotely access Company policies, procedures, work instructions, forms and records or demonstrate for any Customer in realtime your commitment to quality.

See for yourself how you can access and operate demo Efficient QMS™ to browse what could be your quality system and records using your Blackberry, iPad, iPod, Palm or any device with internet Browser software.

Type-in the following address in your portable device or click the following link with your computer to begin using eQMS:

http://www.as9100-quality-system.com/demo

User-friendly point-and-click operation. Any device with Browser capability can access and operate eQMS so you're never cutoff from your records or QMS policies, procedures, work instructions and forms, including other categories and business documents that you assimilate into eQMS. Efficient QMS™ quality system software was developed to eliminate undesirable overhead expenses and labor-intensive QMS system maintenance.

If you're a small business with few employees and no QMS documents that must compete with large businesses that have a certified quality system, please click here to learn more about the Efficient QMS™ software quality management system. If you're a medium-to-large business and must find a way to transition from paper to electronic management then please click here to see for yourself how demo eQMS will make that process less painful.

A QMS pedigree requires extensive resources and tools to achieve certification and significant overhead to maintain the system for annual recertification. eQMS was designed to achieve QMS certification using existing employees and significantly reduce or eliminate overhead expenses.

Are you faced with the challenge to increase revenues and think a QMS pedigree will improve your odds? Do your budget limitations force you to call upon your employees to implement and maintain a complex QMS standard with diminishing resources?

All our Customers consider eQMS a formidable tool in their arsenal of business resources to facilitate Company policy and keep "things" under control and continuously improving.

Efficient QMS™ is a self-contained resource that's accessible on your internal network or over the internet. Users can login to mine the data, sign authorizations, do homework, complete unfinished tasks, quote from the manual or procedures, access drawings and work instructions and demonstrate in realtime for your Customers how committed your Company is to quality. Your "office" is always open and your business files are always handy...!

From the Quality Manager of Electro Energy Inc:
"Efficient QMS™ helped us achieve a 99% score from our AS9100 certification audit and helped us maintain our QMS after being downsized. The Auditors from NSF-ISR remarked that our quality program was in their top ten list of best practices."

FYI: Electro Energy purchased the Eagle-Picher (EP) Colorado Springs, CO facility in Oct 2003 and transferred all personnel as assets of the sale. The QA Mgr had been with EP since March 1981 and most other personnel had as many years of experience in the business. Between 2003 and 2005 the Company became publicly traded. It took a couple of years for old management to retire then new management decided on Dec 1, 2005, to acquire an AS9100 pedigree. By July 7, 2006 the Company had its pedigree from NSF-ISR with a 99% score using Efficient QMS™ as the foundation of their quality management system. The QA Mgr knew the sale of EP to EEI would cause a paradigm-shift so he began to develop a web-based QMS in April 2004 to make the culture shock less painful, not to mention that EEI inherited over 30 years of document baggage that had to quickly become "auditable". The result of all this effort is Efficient QMS™.

Efficient QMS(tm) is a solution for companies that must protect their existing business and desire to compete for more business with Customers that want their Suppliers or Contractors to have a QMS pedigree - or operate with software-based project management tools.

We have very carefully created a browser-based working environment for management of simple or complex quality systems. We have succeeded in achieving the goal of operating a pedigree QMS without the need to hire additional personnel to maintain the QMS. In addition, eQMS Users are able to maintain a certified QMS when the business is victimized by down-sizing.

We designed Efficient QMS™ with emphasis on preserving the sanity of the men and women responsible for quality management, which, when done right, always continuously improves the Company - then we:

• Built-in a daily planner with reminder capability for everybody that can't remember everything they need to do,

• Enabled flexibility to add or remove categories for ERP capability,

• Enabled on-line editing and configuration management of all procedures and work instructions using Process Maker,

• Enabled transition to a paperless-process by converting almost any paper form to a database-process using Form Maker,

• Made it easy to navigate for all Users because eQMS uses a web-based interface and only requires simple show-and-tell videos for the User's manual - and we,

• ...can't mention every feature here - there are too many...

Click here to learn how-to add any word-processed document to Efficient QMS™.

We invented Efficient QMS™ out of self-preservation and it has saved countless hours of labor and significantly decreased "management" expenses. User's intuitively navigate eQMS because it is browser-based and because it is such a convenient tool to access QMS documents and records after password-protected login.

We recommend installation of eQMS on an external webhost to enable "road warriors" to manage their business in realtime using any device with Browser capability. Not a bad idea if you're sitting with a Customer talking shop and suddenly need to browse some records. Think about the intangible return on investment from increased Customer confidence in the business operation.

Anywhere you can connect to the internet or internal server to login to eQMS is another tool to promote and manage your business.

Click here for more information or click here for demo to vigorously experiment with eQMS.

We are proud Efficient QMS™ was chosen to support the quality improvement projects for the following services, businesses and agencies. Companies using eQMS have received pedigrees for ISO 9001, AS9100, AS9110 and Nadcap special processes:

Access Laser Company
Alto Aviation, MA (aircraft sound systems)
Arcadia Aerospace Industries Testimonial: "We went through our Nadcap audit for AQS and NDT/UT and we received no NCR's. The Auditor was very complimentary of our system, which was in no small part because of eQMS."
Avionics Mounts Inc.
axept Custom Engineering (MEMS)
Dynamic Paint Solutions
Dynamic Power LLC
Global Parts Inc.
Howell Instruments Inc.
K-TECHnologies Inc.
Ligi Tool and Engineering Inc.
McAllister Tool and Machine
Mohr and Associates
Nee's Machine Inc.
Nomad Aviation Inc. Testimonial: "We passed our ISO 9001:2008 registration audit thanks to Efficient QMS...Thank you."
Sandia National Laboratories
Specialty Metals Corporation
Sustainable Energy Technologies
Theranos
Quest Manufacturing LLC. Testimonial: "Installing eQMS was very simple. The only issue we had with install on our server was getting the correct library for 64 bit and that was quickly cleared up."

Price - $497 - includes versions to support ISO 9001 or AS9100C, AS9110A, AS9120A or AISC. Other QMS systems available with prior notice, such as nuclear quality management.

Click the above demo links to see what is included in each version of eQMS using the Customer-type login, which limits access to blank forms and the QA System category to protect confidential or proprietary records.

Login Name: customer
Password: customer

The Customer-type login is very useful because it reduces access to only the category named "QA System" and its blank forms. Other categories added to eQMS are normally proprietary so we built-in a Customer-type login, which can also be used by Suppliers, Auditors, Prospects, Contacts and more...

$497 Efficient QMS, Complete | Add to Cart | View Cart

Efficient QMS™ software quality management system is accessible on any device with an internet Browser, including a WiFi enabled, private network webhost server. Click here for full-access demo to vigorously experiment with eQMS or click here to learn more... Download and install fully functional Efficient QMS™ anytime then we'll visit with you to provide a permanent license for your domain or server.

$397 Efficient QMS, Shell | Add to Cart | View Cart

Efficient QMS™ Shell is seeded with only a couple of documents to enable businesses to create their own proprietary management system or use it to replace paper forms with searchable electronic forms. Click here for full-access demo or click here to learn more... All the features in complete eQMS are included in Efficient QMS™ Shell.

Here's an interactive orientation video to quickly learn how to create a signature for use in eQMS:

New Features:

• Ability to allow/disallow editing on data fields by the "customer/customer" login.

• Ability to change the "customer/customer" login password.

• Ability to change the encryption key used for generating the Customer Access Link to disable previously emailed links.

• Allows signature authority Users to have multiple signature images. Signature Users can select a single signature or multiple signatures when "signing" a document.

• Automatic document revision control and manual document release system. We originally only provided for revision control of forms.

• Built in HTML editor. We originally did not provide for editing of procedures or work instructions within eQMS - an external editor was required.

• Enhanced security.

• Many bug fixes.

• New Form Maker functions in the design palette.

• New numerical data input types in forms.

• Provide Form Maker database content to enable editing of all supplied forms. We originally did not enable editing of supplied forms.

Efficient QMS™ is not pay-as-you-go software - no subscriptions - no per-User fees - no other expenses - that's refreshing!

Evaluate eQMS to see how it can dramatically improve the efficiency of the quality program that you need to keep your Customers happy. Any size business (including a one, two or three person shop or "big business") can use eQMS to help make the sale to win new business or keep costs way down for existing business. You'll never have to say "I'll get back with you on that..." because all you have to do is login to demonstrate in realtime the Company's commitment to "quality".

You can populate eQMS with any management system - including standards like AS9003, AS9100, AS9110, AS9120, ASA-100, ISO 9001, ISO 15161, MIL-I-45208, MIL-Q-9858, FAA-PMA, NQA-1, FAA Repair Station, TS16949 - and non-standard management systems like Construction, Maintenance, Machine Shop, Engineering, Commercial, Civil, Government - any Customer flowdown quality program or voluntary quality management system!

How will your business spell relief?

Efficient QMS™

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