Clicarity Aerospace Components
✈️ Industry · Aerospace Components

If a customer asks for one part history today, how long would it take?

How long a full traceability pull actually takes. How long parts wait for a first article inspector. Which root cause keeps generating the same NCR.

One supplier needed two and a half days to assemble the full history of a single serial number. Every record existed. None of them were together.
Aerospace component manufacturers — full lot traceability live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 ↗

Three suppliers. Each one kept every record and could not produce them.

01 The traceability an auditor expects

Every part carries a material certificate, a process route, an inspection record and an operator signature. All of it exists.

It exists across a route card, a QA file and a store register. When a customer or a regulator asks for the full history of one serial number, assembling it is days of work by people who should be making parts.

Time to assemble full history for one part
From route cards and files2.5 days
From partial systems7 hrs
Captured at each operationMinutes

Material lot, operation, operator, inspection and NCR all attach to the serial as it is made.

Days → minutesper traced part
Show me howFifteen minutes. We trace one live.
02 First article, and the wait around it

First article inspection is mandatory and thorough. It is not the slow part.

The slow part is the machine standing while the part waits for an inspector, and that wait is never separated from the inspection itself, so it is never reduced.

One first article, where the hours went
Machining the part1.1 hrs
Waiting for inspection6.8 hrs
Inspection itself1.5 hrs
Documentation2 hrs

The FAI request enters a visible queue the moment the part comes off, ordered by wait time.

6.8 hrs → 1.4 hrswaiting per first article
Show me howFifteen minutes. We look at one FAI.
03 The non-conformance that repeated

An NCR is raised, dispositioned, closed. Correctly, every time.

But NCRs live as individual documents. Nobody puts a year of them side by side, so a recurring cause is closed twenty times rather than eliminated once.

NCRs by root cause, one year
Same fixture / setup31 NCRs
Material condition14 NCRs
Programme / tooling11 NCRs
Handling damage7 NCRs

Each NCR carries the operation, machine and fixture, so the pattern is a filter rather than a study.

31 NCRs → 8next year, same fixture corrected
Find out howBring last year. Fifteen minutes.

Compliance is not the problem. Compliance stored in three places is.

Every job. Every operation. Every inspection documented.

This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.

01
Order & Engineering
4 stages
Purchase Order & Drawing
PO received with drawing, revision, and material specification.
✓ Clicarity: Job ID created, drawing revision locked, material planned
Material Review
Raw material reviewed for approved source, cert, and compliance.
✓ Clicarity: Material cert and heat number recorded — no production without approval
First Article / PPAP
First article inspection or PPAP conducted if required.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: first article failure — rework and re-inspection adds weeks
Job Planning
Operation sequence, tooling, and inspection points defined per control plan.
✓ Clicarity: Operation sequence locked — cannot be changed without approval
02
Machining
5 stages
Raw Material Inspection
Material dimensions and certifications verified before machining.
✓ Clicarity: Incoming result logged — job cannot start without pass
Rough Machining
Material rough machined to leave stock for finish operations.
Semi-Finish Machining
Features semi-finished to within finishing allowance.
✓ Clicarity: In-process dimensions logged — deviation from drawing flagged
Finish Machining
Final dimensions machined to drawing tolerances.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: tight tolerance features require multiple passes — schedule longer than planned
In-Process Inspection
Critical features verified at defined inspection points.
✓ Clicarity: Inspection result logged — job cannot proceed without sign-off
03
Special Processes
3 stages
Heat Treatment
Job heat treated per specification — solution anneal, age, stress relieve.
✓ Clicarity: Heat treatment furnace, temperature, and time logged
NDT — Non-Destructive Testing
Radiography, UT, dye penetrant, or magnetic particle inspection.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: NDT finding — disposition required before continuing
Surface Treatment
Anodising, plating, conversion coating, or painting per specification.
✓ Clicarity: Vendor process cert and coating thickness logged
04
Final Inspection & Dispatch
3 stages
Final Dimensional Inspection
All dimensions verified on CMM or precision instruments.
✓ Clicarity: Full dimensional report generated and linked to job
Documentation & Certification
All certs, material traceability, and inspection records compiled.
✓ Clicarity: Documentation completeness checked — dispatch blocked until full pack ready
Dispatch
Parts dispatched with complete documentation pack.
✓ Clicarity: Full lot traceability — raw material cert to dispatch — preserved forever
""Customer audit asked us to trace a component from raw material to delivery in 10 minutes. We did it in 4. The auditor noted it as a best practice. That would have been impossible before Clicarity.""
QU
Quality Manager
Aerospace Component Manufacturer — Bengaluru
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 — Vol 18, Issue 12 ↗ Also in Print Bulletin, May 2026 — Pages 20–21 ↗

What improves in aerospace component businesses using Clicarity

100%
Lot traceability from raw to dispatch
↓ 55%
NCR resolution time
↓ 40%
Inspection bottleneck delays
5 days
To go live — full setup included

Questions from aerospace components businesses

How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and alerts when a job sits too long at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.

Full traceability. Every operation documented. Every audit ready.

Book a free demo. We'll map your aerospace production workflow live on the call.

No commitment Live in 5 days Annual licence Full setup included