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AS9102C - FAI Process
AS9102C - FAI Process
The purpose of First Article Inspection (FAI) is to make sure the production process is able to make conforming parts. It does not guarantee subsequent parts will be conforming. The standard emphasizes and enhances the FAI planning, evaluation, and re- accomplishment activities aligning requirements to the 9100 standard.
Digital Product Definition Requirements – The intent is to ensure the organization is able to extract and verify all DPD design characteristics, both implicit and explicit. All features annotated within the 3D model (explicit) Features of the 3D model not annotated (implicit).
The extraction of the implicit and explicit characteristics must be included in the balloon drawings.
The requirement for a FAI continues through the life of production, not just once. This includes all of the requirements and sections of the 9102 standard, not just the forms.
The intent of this requirement is to require FAI and partial FAI to account for any changes from the original FAI, ensuring these changes still provide for the ability to make conforming parts.
When accomplishing partial FAI, only the changes required to be validated should be listed and recorded in the FAIR with all its forms.
Documenting previous results on a partial FAI is not accepted per the standard as it could be considered a misrepresentation as the results were not generated from the partial but are actually from a previous FAI, even if they are in a different font or highlighted in such a way to show a difference.
Key Changes from AS9102B to AS9102C
Field 14 – “Reason for Partial” is now “Reason for Full / Partial FAI” and mandatory for all FAIs.
Field 17 – Has been updated from “Part Serial Number” to ““Part Type”. The standard instructs individuals to enter whether the part is a detail part, sub-assembly, software, standard catalogue item, or COTS (or equivalent). One important change worth mentioning that is not explicitly called out on the Form is the clarification made within the standard. Revision C now explicitly states: “All BOM parts (e.g., detail parts, sub-assemblies, COTS) that are part of the assembly, identified in field 1, shall be listed in this [Fields 15-18] section.” Many customers required COTS parts to be identified within the Bill of Materials, but now the Standard explicitly identifies the requirement.
Field 18 – The Form’s field name only had a minor change in appearance: “FAIR Number” to “FAIR Identifier”. However, the AS9102 Standard does mention, “If no FAIR identifier is available, input the organization’s identifier for the FAI or approved configuration” We expect customers to request Certificate of Conformance numbers or similar in this field, as opposed to “N/A”.
Field 19 – The former “FAI Complete / FAI Not Complete” flag has been relabeled for clarity to explicitly request “Does FAIR Contain a Documented Nonconformance(s)?”
Field 19 & 21 – The former Field 19 “Signature” and Field 21 “Reviewed By” have been updated to Field 20 “FAIR Reviewed By” and 22. “FAIR Approved/Reviewed By”. Both fields are intended to be completed by the organization that creates the FAIR, but the AS9102 Standard now states that the individual identified in Field 22 should not be the same individual identified in Field 20.
On Form 2, the only significant Form-related change is the removal of the signature field (Formerly Field 14).
The AS9102 Standard now explicitly applies to suppliers performing special process(es) and can be satisfied by the Special Processor creating a FAIR or by documenting the characteristics and results on a detailed Certificate of Conformance.
On Form 3, the only significant change is the removal of the signature field (Formerly Field 14).
This resulted in a renumbering of Column 14 to Column 12.
Field 14 – Formerly “Additional Data / Comments” has been renumbered to “Field 12”.
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