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AS9100D Gap Analysis Workbook

A self-assessment against every AS9100D clause, from 4.1 to 10.3: our own question and the evidence to look for on each line, your status, and an action plan for every gap, with plain counts.

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Page 1 of the AS9100D Gap Analysis Workbook

Page 1 of the PDF. Every resource includes a fully worked example.

The problem it solves

A gap analysis is the first step toward certification, and a sensible check before recertification or after big changes. Most gap analysis templates either copy the standard's clause headings with a yes/no column, which tells you nothing about evidence, or bury the result in a score nobody can explain. This workbook asks one or more plain questions per clause, each with the evidence that would show it, so the answer is based on what you looked at. You choose the status (Conforms, Partial, Gap or N/A), write what you found, and turn every Partial and Gap into an action with an owner and a date. The Summary only counts: by status, by section and by action, with nothing weighted.

Who uses it

Quality managers and consultants preparing a shop for AS9100D certification, recertification or a transition, and internal auditors checking coverage of the standard.

When

Six months or more before a first certification audit; three to six months before recertification; after a merger, a new site or a new quality manager; and once a year as a check on the whole system.

Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Clause references: 4 to 10 (every clause, by number) (numbers only; use your own licensed copy of the standard).

Aegis Insights inside. Wherever this resource gives our own guidance, it is labeled Aegis Insights, so you always know what is our experience and what a standard or your customer requires.

A management aid, not certification or a registrar audit. Using it does not by itself show conformity to AS9100D or any other standard.

How to put it to work

Chapters of our free guides that use this tool.

  1. Getting ready for external auditsThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 11
  2. The kit at a glanceThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 18

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