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Production Readiness Review Checklist

Decide, on evidence, whether a new or changed part is ready to make product: thirty-eight readiness checks across thirteen areas, a record of the decision and its conditions, and a summary that shows what is blocking the launch.

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Part of the FAI and Production Readiness Kit4 of 9← AS9102 FAI Package Completeness ChecklistKey Characteristics Monitoring Register →

The problem it solves

New parts are launched by a date, not by readiness. The first article is run while the fixture is still being adjusted, the CMM program has never seen a part, the second shift has never set up the machine, or the plater is not on the customer's list. The problems surface one at a time during the first article and the first production runs, each as a delay, a nonconformance or a late shipment. A production readiness review puts every part of the launch on one page before the first article, rates each one on evidence, turns every gap into an action with an owner and a date, and records a decision the whole team signs: go, go with conditions, or not yet.

Who uses it

Program managers, manufacturing engineers and quality engineers who launch new or changed parts; plant managers who chair the review and own the decision.

When

One to two weeks before the first article run of a new part, a part moving to a new machine or site, a restart after a long lapse, or a major process change. Again a week later when the first review ends in No go.

Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Part of: FAI and Production Readiness Kit. Clause references: 8.1, 8.5.1; also 8.1.1, 8.2.3, 8.4, 8.5.1.1, 8.5.1.2, 8.5.1.3, 7.1.5, 7.2; AS9145 (APQP and PPAP) (numbers only; use your own licensed copy of the standard).

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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.

  1. The kit and how the tools connectThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 2
  2. The workflowThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 3
  3. The production readiness review (D09)The FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 10
  4. The weekly and monthly rhythmThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 15
  5. Setting it up in thirty daysThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 17
  6. Quick referenceThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 20

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