Aerospace Manufacturing Editing and Proofreading Services

The first part off the line is the one that decides whether the next twelve thousand are accepted. A customer receives a package proving that this part, made by this process, on this equipment, meets every dimension and every requirement on the drawing — and the review of that package is where an aerospace supplier is either approved or asked to do it again in six weeks.

We edit what aerospace manufacturers and suppliers produce — first article inspection reports and their supporting documentation, characteristic accountability and balloon drawings, measurement and inspection method documentation, special process and approval documentation, non-conformance and deviation requests, process control and key characteristic documentation, tooling and gauge documentation, production readiness and capacity submissions, supplier quality manual content, customer audit responses, and change notification to customers. Our editors work on the package that gets a part approved.

The first article inspection report is where a supplier demonstrates control rather than a good part, and its failure is reporting results without accounting for every characteristic. A report giving fifty measurements against a drawing with fifty-eight characteristics has not been reviewed by the person who wrote it. We work through these so every characteristic on the drawing is accounted for with a unique number, including the ones met by a note, a specification reference or a process rather than a measurement, since unaccounted characteristics are the most common reason a package is rejected and the easiest to prevent; so the measurement method is stated for each characteristic with the equipment and its calibration status, because a dimension checked with a rule and one on a CMM are different evidence; so any characteristic met by reference to a specification names where the compliance evidence sits — the process certificate, the material certificate, the test report; so non-conformances are declared with the disposition and the customer's approval reference rather than corrected silently; so the results are traceable to the actual part, identified by serial or lot, with the tooling and equipment used; so anything measured on a different part than the one submitted is flagged; and so the report states what the FAI does not cover, such as a subsequent tooling change. Packages written this way get approved first time.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including drawings, inspection data and customer requirements. We are editors rather than quality engineers or inspectors, and we offer no view on conformance, measurement or acceptability. What we can do is make the package account for everything the drawing asks.