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FAI Forge (Alpha) \u2014 AS9102 FAI Builder
What is AS9102?
AS9102 is the aerospace industry standard for First Article Inspection (FAI). It requires manufacturers to verify that production processes can produce parts that meet all engineering design and specification requirements. The standard defines three forms: Part Number Accountability (Form 1), Product Accountability (Form 2), and Characteristic Accountability (Form 3).
What to Upload
Required. The PO document with part number, revision, quantity, and customer info. FAI Forge extracts PO number, part number, and revision automatically.
Required. The drawing with dimensions and tolerances. FAI Forge extracts dimensional characteristics, tolerances, and balloon numbers from the text.
Optional. Product Specification Data List — defines key characteristics and special requirements.
Optional. Certificate of Specification — lists applicable material and process specifications.
Optional. Engineering Document Release Notice — documents revision changes and engineering change orders.
Optional. Material certs, mill certs, Certificates of Conformance (CoC), process certs.
What the Readiness Score Means
The readiness score (0–100) indicates how complete your FAI packet is. It starts at 100 and is reduced by validation issues:
Missing PO, missing drawing, revision mismatch, no characteristics extracted.
Empty nominal or tolerance values, EDRN revision mismatch, missing certs when COS/PSDL present.
Minor warnings and suggestions.
How to Use FAI Forge
Enter part number and revision, upload your PDF documents.
FAI Forge classifies documents, extracts text, parses dimensions, and builds a characteristic table.
Review the extracted characteristics. Edit values, add rows, mark key characteristics, re-run validation.
Generate a professional AS9102-style PDF packet and Form 3 Excel spreadsheet.
Download your artifacts. Return to the job later to make changes and re-generate.
MVP Limitations
This is an internal alpha. Current limitations include:
Extraction works on text-based PDFs. Scanned images or CAD files are not supported yet.
Dimension parsing uses regex patterns. Complex GD&T callouts may not be fully captured.
Balloon numbers are assigned sequentially to extracted dimensions. Visual overlay on drawings is planned.
All jobs are visible to all users. Multi-user and organization support is planned.
Files are stored locally. Cloud storage (S3) integration is planned for production.