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MRB and Nonconformance Kit
Segregate, record, disposition and close nonconforming product, with the authorizations use-as-is and repair need.
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.
The kit, step by step
Each tool is free on its own page, with its own worked example from the same story.
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Checklist · AQL-D18Nonconforming Product Segregation Checklist
Walk the floor and the hold area with five short checklists and a reconciliation sheet: every nonconforming and suspect part identified where it was found, held where it cannot be used, matched to its record, scrapped beyond recovery, and released only on a signed disposition.
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Workbook · AQL-D19Nonconformance Management Log
One line per NCR, from the moment it is found to the moment it is closed: the part, the requirement, where it was found, the disposition and who authorized it, customer approval, cost, the corrective action link and how long it has been open.
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Workbook · AQL-D20MRB Disposition Record and Log
One record per material review board case, from the evaluation to the signatures to the product action, and one log that ages every open case, tracks every customer authorization and flags any use-as-is or repair released without the approvals it needs.
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Checklist · AQL-B11Containment 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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Workbook · AQL-F09NCR Trend Analysis Spreadsheet
Turn a plain NCR log into a monthly trend with control limits, Paretos by defect, cause and operation, counts by part, and a one-page summary of what changed and where to look.
Read the handbook online
All 26 chapters are free to read on the site. Start with the overview.
- 1Why nonconformance systems leak
- 2The kit
- 3The workflow
- 4Who does what
- 5Finding and recording
- 6Identification, segregation and the hold area
- 7Containment
- 8Dispositions and who may authorize them
- 9Running the material review board
- 10Use-as-is and repair
- 11Scrap, returns and customer property
- 12Suspect counterfeit parts and suspect material
- 13When nonconforming product has already shipped
- 14When a nonconformance needs a corrective action
- 15Cost and trends
- 16Records
- 17The rhythm
- 18Setting it up in thirty days
- 19Your nonconforming product procedure: what it should say
- 20The findings we see most, and the fix
- 21Worked example: October at Meridian Aerostructures
- 22What an auditor samples, and where the answer is
- 23Quick reference: nonconforming product
- 24For your plant manager: one page
- 25The kit at a glance
- 26Where the kit touches AS9100D
The problem it solves
Every shop writes NCRs. What separates a sound nonconformance system from a leaky one is everything after: whether the suspect parts were all found, whether the hold area matches the log, whether a use-as-is had the design authority's approval and the customer's authorization where the contract required it, whether the scrap was actually made unusable, whether anyone noticed the same scratch for the second time, and how long product has been sitting in the cage waiting for a decision. This handbook is the operating manual for the MRB and Nonconformance Kit. It sets out one workflow from the moment something is found to the moment the record closes, who may decide what, how to run the material review board every week, how to handle use-as-is and repair, scrap, suppliers and suspect parts, what to measure, and how to set it all up in thirty days with the kit's five tools.
Who uses it
Quality managers who own nonconforming product control; quality engineers and engineers who sit on the material review board; supervisors, inspectors and stores who find, tag and hold product; and the plant manager who backs the system.
When
When the hold area keeps filling, when NCRs wait weeks for a decision, after a finding on dispositions or customer authorization, when you take over a quality system, or a quarter before a customer or registrar audit.
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