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Workbook · AQL-E10

Tooling and Equipment Maintenance Register

Keep every machine, fixture, tool, customer-owned item and NC program that the product depends on validated, maintained and checked in storage, with a log that asks what a breakdown made while it was broken.

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The problem it solves

Production equipment, tooling and programs drift between the times anyone looks at them: a fixture's locating pins wear, a machine loses accuracy after a minor crash, a program is edited at the control, customer-owned tooling corrodes in a rack for two years. AS9100D expects equipment, tools and programs that control the product to be validated before use, maintained, and checked periodically in storage. Most shops have a maintenance calendar for machines and nothing for fixtures, customer tooling or programs, and no record connecting a breakdown to the parts made just before it. This register puts all of them in one place: validated or not, when they are due, how much use they have left, and what each repair meant for product.

Who uses it

Maintenance leads, toolroom and tooling coordinators, manufacturing engineers who release fixtures and programs, and the quality engineers who assess product impact.

When

Set it up once with every item; update it after every maintenance event, repair, modification or storage check; review the Summary at the weekly production meeting and before a production readiness review (AQL-D09).

Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Clause references: 8.5.1.1; also 7.1.3, 8.5.1, 8.5.3, 8.5.6, 8.7 (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. First article inspection in plain wordsThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 5
  4. Tooling, equipment and programs (E10)The FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 9
  5. The weekly and monthly rhythmThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 15
  6. Setting it up in thirty daysThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 17

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