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Configuration Management Register
Every part at its released configuration (drawing, specifications, router, programs, inspection plan, key characteristics and FAI, each with its revision), how it got there, and checks at the machine that what is built matches what is released.
- Excel
- fillable PDF
- Worked example
- Your logo on it
- Aegis Insights
Page 1 of the PDF. Every resource includes a fully worked example.
The problem it solves
Ask most small shops which revision of a part they are released to build and they can tell you. Ask which program revision, CMM program, inspection plan and specification revisions go with it, which lot was the first at that revision, and whether the program in the machine's control today is the released one, and the answers are in five places or nowhere. That gap is where 'made to superseded revision' NCRs come from. This register keeps each part's whole configuration on one line, records every change with its effectivity, and gives you a quick way to check jobs on the floor against it.
Who uses it
Document control, quality engineers and manufacturing engineers, and the quality manager who owns configuration management.
When
Set up a line for every active part. Update it the day a change is implemented, record the change in Status accounting, and check two or three jobs a week on the floor.
Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Part of: Configuration and Change Control Kit. Clause references: 8.1.2 (with 8.5.2, 8.5.6, 7.5.3) (numbers only; use your own licensed copy of the standard).
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.
- Three controls, one systemThe Configuration and Change Control Kit Handbook, chapter 2
- The kit at a glanceThe Configuration and Change Control Kit Handbook, chapter 3
- Who does whatThe Configuration and Change Control Kit Handbook, chapter 4
- The change boardThe Configuration and Change Control Kit Handbook, chapter 5
- Configuration identification: what a part isThe Configuration and Change Control Kit Handbook, chapter 6
- Running the systemThe Configuration and Change Control Kit Handbook, chapter 13
Related resources
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Kit handbook
The Configuration and Change Control Kit Handbook
One working system for knowing exactly what each part is, changing it on purpose, and making sure every document and program on the floor says the same thing: configuration identification, customer, engineering and process change control, and documented information control, joined up.
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Workbook
Engineering Change Impact Assessment
Assess every drawing, specification, order or engineering change before anything moves: twenty impact areas, effectivity and old-revision product, product safety, FAI, the customer question, every action to done, and a log of every change.
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Workbook
Documented Information Control Register
Every controlled document with its revision, approval, points of use and review date; every revision issued and whether the old copies came back; external documents checked against their source; spot checks where documents are used; and the records you keep and for how long.
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Workbook
Manufacturing Process Change Assessment
Assess every change to how a part is made or inspected before it reaches production: a risk screen, the customer's notice and approval, a validation plan with its criterion set first, the trial, the FAI, and a watch over the first lots, with every change on one log.
Excel · PDFFree download -
Workbook
Supplier Change Notification Register
Log every change your suppliers make to site, process, source, material, people or ownership; check your purchase order and your customer's requirements; decide with a first article where needed; and verify the first lot made after the change.
Excel · PDFFree download -
Workbook
Key Characteristics Monitoring Register
Every key characteristic with its limits, control method and reaction plan; every measured value; and capability worked out from the values, so you know which KCs are capable, which are not, and which have too little data to say.
Excel · PDFFree download
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