VisualFAIR^®                                                      (First Article Inspection Reporting)

Visual FAIR is a business application designed to save you time and money by effectively managing the First Article Inspection Reporting process. It removes the administrative burden for your Quality professionals, quite simply VisualFAIR offers, Improved quality, Eliminates waste, Reduces lead time & Reduces total cost
Visual FAIR liberates the business to start the process early, even at the Contract Review stage and by so doing it can enhance the manufacturing process and FAI is no longer seen as an administrative burden.

IPI has over 1000 users of Visual FAIR across four continents. It is these users who have inspired the ever growing functionality of this exciting business application. Visual FAIR is seen as a value adding tool that not only enhances FAI creation but it considered as powerful business application encompassing functionality for managing the complete FAI process.  

Visual FAIR works by linking design requirement via an electronically ballooned drawing to a form such as AS9102 form 3. Those requirements can be captured or data mined utilizing Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This speeds up the process dramatically and Visual FAIR has a built in mistake proofing process to handle the data.

Visual FAIR also allows you to manage material & process specifications and their related customer approved suppliers. Each process and material will have a customer requirement such as a certificate of conformance or a data card etc. or even multiple requirements. The related material & process information populates AS9102 form 2.

Visual FAIR has a current FAI status report built in and this allows users and management alike to see exactly what stage an FAI is at. Each customers specific contractual and or global requirements can also be set, captured and status displayed in this way.

Visual FAIR also takes advantage of data created on your other business systems for example ERP might have a Bill of Materials BOM. Utilizing our Visual BOM app you can import a bill of materials data from almost any ERP/MRP system. Another example of this would be to import data from your CMM using our Visual CMM app.
 

The same technique can be employed to populate any form not just AS9102. For example internal control plans, process verification check sheet, inspection method sheets etc. You can associate operation numbers and measurement equipment for each characteristic. Visual FAIR is the professional tool that efficiently and effectively manages the entire FAI process. It will enhance your competitiveness whilst providing your customer with the reassurance that their FAI requirements are being exceeded through the delivery of high quality complete documentation in either PDF or paper format.
 

Visual FAIR has many features to help the user to ensure that previously common errors are eradicated. It does this through the use of simple visual traffic light status; red/amber/green. An intelligent data entry interface ensures dimensional engineering principles are adhered to. Further mistake proofing is ensured through a real time process 'current status' report highlighting all FAI / Customer requirements. Below is a list of software features

• Clone a part
• Replace a drawing when a part up issues or changes revision
• Upload data to external systems
• Export to Excel
• Export to PDF
• Colour code report status on attached images and within forms
• Current status of report
• OCR Optical Character Recognition including customizable settings
• Key Features and form filters for AS9103
• Customizable forms with your logo or the customers, formulea etc..
• Site configuration
• Create specification and link them to approved suppliers & customer requirement
• Customize and attach measurement equipment including gauge numbers
• CMM data import through additional module
• BOM date import though additional module
• Insert images within forms for example hand written text
• Assembly manage
• Catalogue part
• Attach and include FAI's created outside the software within an assembly
• Search for parts
• ITAR compliant
• Multiple site repositories
• Local My Repository for portable solution such as laptop
• Signatures/Stamps management within software
• Signatures/Stamps security, cut copy paste disabled and removes signatures if template is changed
• Import PDF, TIF, GIF, JPEG, BMP etc.....
• Complex 3D images in neutral format
• Pan & Zoom
• Handles vector PDF's
• Multiple drawings
• Online/Offline capability
• Filter by feature and or operation number
• Link operation numbers to features
• Create operation numbers for pre-finished sizes and relate to finished design requirements
• Customizable tolerances
• Intelligent data entry interface
• Reference mark up for example your specification might have tolerance information for plating thickness
• Reference mark up for holes in a PCD
• True position calculator with automatic grid creation
• Auto population of AS9102 forms
• Customizable forms through Excel templates with embedded formulae
• Repeat, Partial or Delta FAIs
• GD&T fonts
• Other customizable fonts
• Enter results using table, drawing or digital pen interface. (Visual DPP is an additional module).
• Good results go green on image and within forms
• Out of tolerance results go red on image and within forms and non-conformance report flagging
• Specification check list creation capability
• Customizable attachment list
• Copy & paste dimensional requirements
• Re-number feature
• Alpha and numeric indexing
• Gridline tool for automatic grid position A4, G8 etc.
• Mark up rotation
• Image rotation
• FAI style configuration for differing customer requirements e.g. forms, specification supplier codes etc.
• Multiple results per feature and forms handling multiple results
• Forms handling SPC formulae with data output from Visual FAIR
• BOM creation tool e.g. take your PDF BOM and turn it into an electronic BOM such as Excel