Quality Inspection & Nonconformance
For the quality inspector or engineer who has an inspection lot in front of them, a measurement export, a drawing, a certificate of conformance — and a supplier waiting on a release decision.
This plugin reads all of it, compares every actual against its tolerance, grades each defect by severity and disposition, and hands back a drafted nonconformance report where every call is cited to the clause or drawing note it came from.
How it works
- Reads part specs, drawings, inspection plans, CoC and measurement exports.
- Compares actuals against tolerance, computes per-characteristic stats, flags out-of-tolerance and marginal results, cross-checks the certificate against measured reality.
- Grades severity and recommends a disposition — use-as-is, rework, scrap, return-to-vendor, hold-for-review.
- Drafts the NCR and inspection summary, every determination cited.
Tolerance checks and severity grading are rule-based. The model extracts the source data and drafts the cited prose; severity and disposition come from those rules.
Example scenario
Everything invites a release. Dimensions all pass. The finish miss looks cosmetic. The certificate explicitly certifies the finishing process. The supplier is calling and the quality engineer is out.
Three traps are sitting in the documents:
- Drawing NOTE 9 makes surface finish fatigue-critical. Ra 1.72 against a 1.6 maximum is not cosmetic — it is a critical hold pending design authority.
- The certificate contradicts the measurements. Measurements govern. That is a supplier corrective-action candidate, not a reason to release.
- Flatness at 0.096 of 0.100 is legal but marginal — it belongs on a watch list, not on the defect list.
A naive review releases the lot on the certificate. The rules engine holds it.
What you bring
The part spec or drawing, the inspection plan, the measurement export (CMM CSV or similar), and the certificate of conformance if you have one.
Boundaries
Draft-first: nothing is filed, sent, or written back to a quality system. The plugin ends at NCR creation and hands off to Quality Incident & CAPA for root cause and corrective action.