Order of monitoring procedure of the first article inspection

Article is devoted to the description of an order of monitoring procedure of the first article inspection (First Article Inspection - FAI) applied in work of the Customer with his Suppliers - developers and manufacturers of components of civil aviation. The main goal of monitoring procedure of the first product - to receive the objective and documented certificates of the fact that all engineering, design and technical specifications are well understood, considered, verified and documented and also to carry out validation of operations of production (including production of the measuring and processing tools, devices for processing and assembly) new (or modernized) Production. First Article Inspection can be considered the main requirement which has to be executed before start of serial production. In article stages of control of the first product are described: scheduling, preparation, production and carrying out.