AI for quality engineering
Ultramarine Work drafts 8Ds, NCR packages, sampling plans and audit checklists from the reports, logs and drawings already in your quality folder, and shows the file behind each number.
NCR-1187-MRB-package.docxExampleNonconformance Report NCR-1187: Housing Bore Runout, Lot 334
Description of nonconformance
Receiving inspection quarantined 380 housings, part 22145 rev D, from lot 334 after CMM checks found bore runout up to 0.12 mm against the 0.05 mm limit in drawing note 7. A 100% sort found 52 housings out of tolerance and 328 conforming. Housings from lots 331 to 333 already in WIP were checked and conform.
Proposed disposition
Return the 52 nonconforming housings to Harlan Castings for replacement and issue SCAR-0291 for root cause and corrective action. Release the 328 conforming housings to stock with the sort record attached. Use-as-is is not proposed because the bore locates the bearing and the customer has not approved a deviation.
CheckedSort counts on the inspection log sum to 380 and match the quarantine tag.
How it works
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Gather the quality folder
Inspection reports, the NCR log export, drawings and control plans, SPC data, calibration certificates, complaint emails, past 8Ds and SCAR responses, whatever form the records are in.
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Ask for the deliverable
An 8D with containment and candidate causes, a capability study that starts by checking the data are stable and normal, a Z1.4 plan or a PPAP gap list. Each figure names its source file, and anything it could not trace comes back noted.
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Review, verify, disposition
Check every figure against the source record, confirm causes on the line, and make the calls on disposition, root cause and FAI acceptance yourself.
Ask it for
“Draft the NCR and MRB package for the 380 Harlan Castings housings quarantined from lot 334, bore runout 0.12 mm against a 0.05 mm limit.”
NCR-1187-MRB-package.docx“Build the 8D for Redtail Tooling’s complaint on bushing 7740: D2 from the return inspection, containment counts, candidate causes from the defect log.”
8D-7740-bushing.docx“Run the gauge R&R on the CMM flatness check, 3 operators, 10 parts, 3 trials, tolerance 0.10 mm, and tell me whether the gauge is acceptable.”
GRR-flatness-CMM.xlsx“Work out the incoming sampling plan for the 2,500-piece casting lot at AQL 1.0, level II, and give me sample size, Ac and Re numbers, and the switching rules.”
Incoming-sampling-plan.xlsx“Check the supplier’s FAIR against drawing 51206 rev C for Form 3 balloon coverage and tolerance transcription, then list what to fix before acceptance.”
FAIR-51206-review.pdf“Score the five connector suppliers for Q3 on PPM, on-time delivery and SCAR response from the receiving log and SCAR tracker, targets per our manual.”
Supplier-scorecard-Q3.xlsx
Inside the Quality Engineering & Assurance mode
Nonconformance and MRB disposition
Writes the NCR with the finding, quantity and suspect range, then lays out scrap, rework, return and use-as-is with the justification and approvals each needs.
Root cause analysis and CAPA
Takes an NCR, complaint or audit finding and drafts the cause with the records that back it, actions with owners, and an effectiveness check before closure.
FMEA and control plan
Builds DFMEAs and PFMEAs under AIAG-VDA or SAE J1739 as the customer requires. Control plan rows match high action-priority causes, each action owned and dated.
Process capability and MSA
Runs the gauge R&R and Cp, Cpk and Ppk math on your data, but only after the data pass normality and stability checks, and states what the data cannot support.
Inspection and sampling plan
Turns lot size, AQL and inspection level into the Z1.4, Z1.9 or c=0 plan with sample size, accept and reject numbers, and the switching rules.
Launch readiness and PPAP
Assembles the PPAP at the level the customer asked for or the AS9102 FAI, then reviews it element by element and lists the gaps before anyone signs the PSW.
Quality system audit and management review
Pulls evidence for each audit question against ISO 9001, IATF 16949, AS9100 or ISO 13485 clauses, and lists the inputs the management review needs.
Engineering change request and impact
Reads an ECR or ECO against drawings, BOMs and records to find which work instructions, PFMEA rows, control plan entries and open stock need action.
Design of experiments
Sets up full factorial, fractional factorial or response-surface designs, states the resolution each fractional design gives you, and issues the run sheet.
Supply chain KPI scorecard
Computes supplier PPM, on-time delivery and SCAR response to the definitions in your manual, reconciled to the receiving log, for the monthly review.
- Office skills
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF
- Tools
- Read, edit and write files, Search files, Run code, Search and read the web, View images
- Connectors
- SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, and additional custom connectors
- House style
- Your fonts, layouts and rules, on every file
Who it’s for
Quality, supplier quality and quality assurance engineers, QMS and document control specialists, quality auditors and quality managers and directors in manufacturing.
Questions
Can I put customer drawings and specs into it?
That call belongs to your customer agreement and your compliance team. The files it works on go to Paper Instruments’ servers, because the model does not run on your desktop, so check the NDA’s terms on third parties before you load a proprietary print. Many suppliers ask the customer in writing first and keep the reply on file.
We machine parts from ITAR drawings. Can it touch those files?
Keep export-controlled files out until your export compliance team decides otherwise. Files sent through the app are processed on Paper Instruments’ servers, and handling controlled technical data is a legal question a desktop app cannot settle. Your counsel will want the details on our compliance page.
Will an external auditor accept AI-drafted quality records?
Yes, when the records are reviewed and approved by a person under your document control procedures, like any other draft. Certification auditors now ask how AI systems are controlled, who checks their output, and whether copyrighted standards were uploaded. Approval authority, authorship and review records come from your procedures. Drafts cite the file each number came from and flag what they could not reconcile instead of filling it.
Can it find the root cause for us?
No, it drafts the analysis and you confirm the cause. It builds the 5-Why or fishbone from the defect log, SPC data and the prior 8Ds in the folder, and it says which records support each step and where a test or a data pull is still missing. Getting past operator error to the system cause stays with the team.
Where does our quality data end up?
Ultramarine Work changes files only in the project’s folder. When a request needs it, it can read files elsewhere on your computer, never passwords, keys or app data, and you can turn that off in settings. The model runs on Paper Instruments’ servers, so the content it works on is sent there to be processed. Paper Instruments is SOC 2 Type II, and our security and compliance details are on our compliance page.