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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.
Free to use, change and copy inside your own organization. Editable Excel, plus a fillable PDF you can complete on screen.
The problem it solves
Most quality teams prepare for audits in bursts: three weeks of finding records, chasing owners and reconciling counts, then nothing until the next one. The information exists all year, spread across a CAPA log, a calibration list, a supplier list, a training matrix and an audit schedule, and nobody sees it side by side until an auditor lines it up. This command center keeps nine short registers in one workbook and counts them on a single front page, with every line that needs action in crimson, and a 30/60/90-day plan that turns what the page shows into owned, dated actions. It is built to move a quality director from preparing for audits to staying ready for them.
Who uses it, and when
Quality directors and managers, plant managers, and the leadership team that reviews quality. Set it up once from your existing logs, update the registers as things change, review the front page weekly, and use it to prepare management review and every audit.
Part of
Quality Performance.
Companion to
The Audit Ready Brief, issue 6: audit week, and the year ahead.
Clause references: 9.1.3, 9.2, 9.3, 10.2 (with 6.1, 7.1.5, 7.2, 7.5.3, 8.4). Clause numbers only; the standards text is not reproduced, use your own licensed copy.
A management aid, not certification or a registrar audit. Using it does not by itself show conformity to AS9100D or any other standard.
Page 1 of the PDF. Every resource includes a worked example.
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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.