You are audited from above and you audit below. One review reads both document sets.
Your registrar and your primes assess your documentation against AS9100D and the ISO 9001 system beneath it. You assess your sub-tier suppliers against the requirements you flow down to them. Aligntra reads both document sets against all 328 AS9100D obligations and cites each finding to the page and paragraph.
The review reads the full clause set, so nothing is left to a sample. The two figures are not additive: the 328 AS9100D obligations already contain the ISO 9001 system.
Prime contractors audit you above the certified baseline.
Each one assesses your documentation against its own supplement, and the supplements do not agree with each other.
Prime supplements are outside the scope of the review. Establishing which of your gaps are AS9100D gaps determines which customer findings were addressable under your existing certification.
Each audit reads a different part of the baseline.
Three routes are in current use. The bar is the AS9100D baseline, and the shading is the part of it each route actually reads.
The first three report on what they read. None of them reports an obligation that has no document mapped to it.
Findings cite the page and the paragraph.
A finding names the document, the page and the paragraph it was drawn from, and the clause it is assessed against.
The NCR form records disposition and corrective action, with no field for the action taken to contain the escape.
SOP-QA-014 Rev 02 defines identification, disposition and corrective action, and closes the record at ¶ 5.2 once disposition is signed off. No step addresses action taken to contain the escape while the cause remained open. §10.2.1(a) requires action to control and correct the nonconformity and to deal with its consequences.
An illustrative AS9100D finding prepared for this page. No AS9100D example audit is published.
The requirements you were given are the ones you pass on.
A sub-tier supplier’s procedures sit inside the requirements you flow down to them, so a blank in their document set is a finding against your §8.4.
What the review covers, and what it leaves to a person.
The boundaries of the scope, stated where a reader looks for them.
No. Aligntra reads AS9100D. Supplier quality manuals, first article formats and notification windows issued by a prime remain outside the scope of the review.
Not for the baseline. AS9100D restates the ISO 9001 management system under the same clause numbering, so an AS9100D audit reads that system as part of its own 328 obligations. ISO 9001 runs as its own audit if you are certified to it separately.
As its own audit, against the same standard. Their procedures are read and the findings are reported to you, which is what §8.4.2 asks you to determine about an external provider.
No. It performs the documentation review a consultant begins with, across the full document set. Walkthroughs, interviews and judgement calls remain with a person.
CAPA and NCR. All other documents are classified and assessed against their applicable clauses; those two are additionally verified against the SOP that governs them.
A reviewer in your organisation. Aligntra proposes findings; each one is confirmed, reclassified or dismissed by a person before it enters the report.
Run a review before your next surveillance visit.
Aligntra reads your procedures and your suppliers’ against all 328 AS9100D obligations, and reports each finding with the document, page and paragraph it was drawn from.