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The Aegis Quality Resource Library

Free tools for aerospace quality professionals: templates, checklists, workbooks, guides and complete kits, each with a worked example. This is how we approach the work, written down so you can use it. Take whatever you need.

  • 32 resources so far, more every week
  • Free to use, change and copy inside your organization
  • Editable Excel, Word and PowerPoint, plus fillable PDFs

Complete kits

A kit is a working system for one problem, not a pile of forms: the handbook, the tools, and a worked example that runs through all of them.

Management Review Kit

Management review, formalized and standardized: the standard, the calendar, the input pack, agenda, minutes, action register and a one-slide summary.

IA9100 Transition Package

Five worksheets for the IA9100 draft's changes: product safety, counterfeit parts, sub-tier control, FOD and planning, and a full self-check. IA9100 is not yet final.

The Audit Ready Brief companion tools

One working tool for each issue of The Audit Ready Brief, the newsletter that walks an AS9100D audit thread by thread.

Audit Readiness and Internal Audit

  • Page 1 of the Audit Readiness Self-Assessment
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    Audit Readiness Self-Assessment

    Check, area by area, whether the evidence an auditor will ask for is there and holds up, how long it takes to find, and which gaps need an owner and a date: with a plain readiness indicator you can check by hand.

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  • Page 1 of the Audit Readiness Command Center
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    Audit Readiness Command Center

    One front page for audit readiness: open findings, corrective actions, calibration, supplier concerns, training, documents, risk assessments and the audit calendar, counted from nine simple registers, with a 30/60/90-day plan to act on what it shows.

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Corrective Action, Problem Solving and Complaints

  • Page 1 of the Corrective Action Request (CAR) Template
    template · Word · fillable PDF

    Corrective Action Request (CAR) Template

    The request a quality team sends to a supplier or an internal department: the nonconformance stated so it can't be argued with, a due date for every stage, and a decision on each answer with the reason.

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  • Page 1 of the CAPA Intake and Prioritization Tool
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    CAPA Intake and Prioritization Tool

    Log every incoming problem in one place, rank it with a method you can see and change, decide correction or corrective action on purpose, and know who owns it and when the response is due.

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  • Page 1 of the 8D Problem-Solving Workbook
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    8D Problem-Solving Workbook

    One tab per discipline, D0 to D8, rolled up to a status page: an is / is-not table, containment that is verified, root and escape causes confirmed with data, an effectiveness criterion set before the actions go in, and prevention carried to similar processes.

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  • Page 1 of the Root Cause Analysis Decision Tree
    guide · Word · fillable PDF

    Root Cause Analysis Decision Tree

    Which method fits the problem in front of you, how far to dig, and the tests that tell a root cause from a convenient stopping point.

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  • Page 1 of the Root Cause Analysis Worksheet
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    Root Cause Analysis Worksheet

    A structured investigation in one place: problem statement, is / is-not, every candidate cause tested against the data, a 5 Whys chain with evidence, the six root cause tests, the escape cause, and a conclusion that reads Not yet until the work is done.

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  • Page 1 of the Five Whys Investigation Template
    template · Word · fillable PDF

    Five Whys Investigation Template

    A why chain where every answer carries the evidence behind it, a stop test that tells you when you have reached a cause you can change, and a second chain for why the problem got out.

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  • Page 1 of the Fishbone (Ishikawa) Analysis Worksheet
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    Fishbone (Ishikawa) Analysis Worksheet

    Run a cause-and-effect session that ends with tests, not opinions: candidate causes across the six categories, each with how it will be tested, by whom and by when, the result and its status, counted for you and laid out as a printable cause map.

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  • Page 1 of the CAPA Effectiveness Verification Worksheet
    worksheet · Excel · fillable PDF

    CAPA Effectiveness Verification Worksheet

    Prove a corrective action worked, not just that it was done: separate containment, correction and corrective action, set a measurable criterion before the action goes in, and hold the record open until the evidence is in.

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  • Page 1 of the Corrective Action Aging and Program Health Dashboard
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    Corrective Action Aging and Program Health Dashboard

    See at a glance how many corrective actions are open, how old they are, which are late, where they are stuck and how many of the closed ones were shown to work, from one plain CAPA log.

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  • Page 1 of the Repeat Finding Analysis Register
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    Repeat Finding Analysis Register

    Link nonconformances, audit findings and complaints that share a failure mode, part family or process, flag the repeats inside a window you set, and see which corrective actions failed to prevent them.

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  • Page 1 of the Containment and Corrective Action Verification Checklist
    checklist · Word · fillable PDF

    Containment and Corrective Action Verification Checklist

    Two checklists: one to confirm containment reached every suspect part, wherever it is, and one to confirm a corrective action is in place where the work is done and has worked, before anyone signs it closed.

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  • Page 1 of the Quality Escape Investigation Template
    template · Word · fillable PDF

    Quality Escape Investigation Template

    For product that reached a customer: the timeline, every suspect part by location, what the customer was told and when, the detection point that failed and why, and actions at both the cause and the escape point.

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  • Page 1 of the CAPA Escalation Criteria and Owner Accountability Guide
    guide · Word · fillable PDF

    CAPA Escalation Criteria and Owner Accountability Guide

    When a corrective action moves up, to whom, and what the escalation asks for; who owns each part of a corrective action; and a meeting rhythm that keeps actions moving without a chase.

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  • Page 1 of the The CAPA Command Kit Handbook
    handbook · Word · fillable PDF

    The CAPA Command Kit Handbook

    A complete, practical corrective action system for aerospace suppliers: take problems in, contain them, find the real cause, act, prove the action worked, and keep the whole system moving without chasing people all week.

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Supplier Quality and Supply Chain

  • Page 1 of the Special Process Supplier Control Matrix
    workbook · Excel · fillable PDF

    Special Process Supplier Control Matrix

    Show that whoever performs each special process on your parts, including your suppliers' own sources, is qualified for that exact process: scope, specifications, customer approvals, expiry dates, certificates, performance and oversight on one line.

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Product Integrity and Aerospace Requirements

Process Control and Measurement

Quality Leadership, Metrics and Management Review

IA9100 Transition

About Aegis Insights. Every resource keeps our own guidance in labeled Aegis Insights sections, apart from the tool itself and from anything a standard or your customer requires. Clause numbers refer to AS9100D; the standards' text is never reproduced. These are management aids, not certification or a registrar audit.

These tools help you run the work by hand. When you want the whole picture from the records you already keep, that's what the AeroAssure Audit Defense Pack and the IA9100 Transition Gap Analysis do.