Free quality tools from Aegis: templates, kits and guides you can use today →
Aegis Technologies Inc.

Resource Library/Aegis Quality Kits/Internal Audit Execution Kit

Aegis Quality Kit · 10 tools and the handbook

Internal Audit Execution Kit

Plan the program, audit by process and by clause, classify what you find and write reports that get acted on.

Get it freeThe Word and fillable PDF versions, sent to your work email.Read the handbook online

Start with the handbook: it sets out the workflow, who does what, the weekly rhythm, a 30-day setup plan and one worked example that runs through every tool below.

Page 1 of The Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook

The kit, step by step

Each tool is free on its own page, with its own worked example from the same story.

  1. 1
    Workbook · AQL-A02

    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.

  2. 2
    Workbook · AQL-A04

    Audit Evidence Collection Register

    Map where every record an auditor asks for lives and who fetches it, check that each holds up before the audit, then log every request on audit day: what was provided, how fast, and how it landed.

  3. 3
    Checklist · AQL-A05

    Clause-by-Clause Internal Audit Checklist

    An audit question and a practical test for every AS9100D clause, from 4.1 to 10.3, with space for the evidence you examined, a plain result, the finding type and its reference.

  4. 4
    Workbook · AQL-A06

    Internal Audit Program and Audit Plan Workbook

    Plan the year's internal audits from your process list and its risks, keep every audit on schedule, know who is qualified to audit what, and issue a plan for each audit before it starts.

  5. 5
    Checklist · AQL-A07

    Process Audit Checklist

    Audit one process the way it actually runs: its inputs, outputs, equipment, people, methods, measures and risks, a real job followed through it, and a finished part checked again.

  6. 6
    Guide · AQL-A08

    Audit Finding Classification Guide

    How to decide whether what you found is a major nonconformity, a minor one, an opportunity for improvement or an observation, and how to write each finding so the process owner can act on it.

  7. 7
    Guide · AQL-A09

    Audit Interview Preparation Guide

    How to get your people ready to talk to an auditor: what they will be asked, how to answer with the work and the records, how to prepare the area, and what to do when the auditor finds something.

  8. 8
    Template · AQL-A10

    Audit Nonconformity Response Template

    Answer an audit nonconformity, internal, customer or registrar, with a response the auditor can accept: correction, extent, root cause, why it wasn't caught, a corrective action plan, and how you will show it worked.

  9. 9
    Template · AQL-A11

    Internal Audit Report Template

    A report that a process owner can act on and a registrar can follow: scope and criteria, a plain conclusion on the process, each finding with its evidence, what works well, what was sampled, and the follow-up of earlier findings.

  10. 10
    Guide · AQL-H11

    IA9100 Internal Audit Planning Guide

    How to audit the IA9100 draft themes inside your AS9100D internal audit program now, record what you find without writing findings against a draft, and plan the audit against the final text before the registrar comes.

Read the handbook online

All 19 chapters are free to read on the site. Start with the overview.

  1. 1Why internal audit programs stop finding things
  2. 2The Internal Audit Execution workflow
  3. 3Who does what
  4. 4Building the program
  5. 5Auditors: competence and independence
  6. 6Planning an audit
  7. 7Conducting the audit
  8. 8Findings that hold up
  9. 9The report
  10. 10Responses, effectiveness and follow-up
  11. 11Getting ready for external audits
  12. 12Running the program
  13. 13Measuring the program
  14. 14Setting it up in thirty days
  15. 15Worked example: one audit through the whole kit
  16. 16For your general manager: one page
  17. 17Quick reference
  18. 18The kit at a glance
  19. 19Where the kit touches AS9100D

The problem it solves

In many small and mid-sized aerospace shops the internal audit program exists to satisfy the registrar. Audits are scheduled by month and department, done from a clause list at a desk, and written up as 'no findings' or as a handful of paperwork minors. Real problems wait for the customer or the registrar to find them, and the program costs time without returning anything. This handbook is the operating manual for the Internal Audit Execution Kit. It sets out one program from planning to follow-up, who does what, which tool to use at each step, the weekly and monthly rhythm, how to prepare for external audits, and how to set it all up in thirty days.

Who uses it

Quality managers and directors who own the internal audit program, the internal auditors who carry it out, and the general manager who sponsors it.

When

When your audits keep coming back clean while customers and registrars find problems; when you take over an audit program; when you build your first one; or six months before a recertification audit.

Need more than one resource, or not sure where to start? Book a complimentary 30-minute Aegis Quality Guidance Call. We'll find the tools that fit your situation and a sensible place to start. No sales pressure, no obligation.

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.