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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.
- 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
An internal audit run from the procedure checks whether the procedure is followed, not whether the process works. It misses what happens between departments, on second shift, and on the job that doesn't fit the instruction. This checklist audits a process through the process view (often drawn as a turtle): what goes in, what comes out, with what, with whom, how, how well, and its risks. It then follows a real job from order to inspection and checks a finished part again, so the audit tests the process with evidence from the floor and concludes whether the process is effective.
Who uses it
Internal auditors doing a process audit, and process owners who want to check their own process before an external audit.
When
For each process audit on the program (AQL-A06), for special process and supplier audits with questions added, and for a follow-up audit after a major finding.
Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Part of: Internal Audit Execution Kit. Clause references: 4.4, 9.2 (with the clauses on each line) (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.
- The Internal Audit Execution workflowThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 2
- Planning an auditThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 6
- Conducting the auditThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 7
- Setting it up in thirty daysThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 14
- Worked example: one audit through the whole kitThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 15
- Quick referenceThe Internal Audit Execution Kit Handbook, chapter 17
Related resources
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Checklist
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.
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Workbook
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.
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Workbook
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.
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Guide
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.
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Template
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.
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Template
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.
Word · PDFFree download
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