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Suppliers to aerospace and defense primes

Close prime CARs with the escape point found. Show the auditor the fix held.

For quality teams at suppliers who answer to a prime: CARs, escapes and AS9100 audits. Lattice investigates each CAR from your own records, fills the prime's response form, and links every corrective action to the evidence that it worked.

CAR-2026-117 · Bore position out of tolerance · Prime BResponse due in 4 days
ConductorCAR-2026-117
Read the CAR and 6 nonconformance reports00:02
Pulled travelers and CMM results for lots 117 to 12100:05
Separating occurrence from escapeEvidence · now
Writing the escape causePrime B CAR response · now
Needs youAsk J. Ortiz which CMM program revision ran on second shift?SendEdit
Prime B CAR responseDraft
NonconformancePrime's CAR
Bore position out of tolerance on 6 parts found at receiving inspection.
Root causeMaintenance log
Fixture locator wear on Mill 3, past its replacement interval.
Escape causeWriting
CMM program revision C not released to second shift
Supplier signatureKept for a person
Your engineer signs

Every CAR from your prime has a due date and a memory.

Due datePrime CARsThe prime's form, its due date and its follow-up questions.
At receivingEscapesNonconforming parts found at the prime, with an escape point to explain.
Next shipmentSource inspectionRepeat escapes bring the prime's inspectors onto your floor.
Next auditAS9100 and prime auditsFindings against corrective action, and proof that the last fix held.
DownstreamYour sub-tier SCARsWhen the cause sits with your supplier, their evidence on a link.

Conductor works the CAR. While you're on the floor.

Prime B CAR response1 line has no sourceDraft
Root causeMaintenance log
Fixture locator wear on Mill 3, past its replacement interval.
Escape causeWriting
CMM program revision C not released to second shift
Supplier signatureKept for a person
Your engineer signs

Occurrence and escape, answered separately. The prime's form, filled from travelers and inspection records, every line cited, the signature left to you.

Precedent
Likeliest match
Locator wear on a milling fixtureInvestigation
Mill 5 · closed Jan 2026 · interval set
Recurrence of thisNot the same
Other sites · 1
Hole position drift
Site 2 · countermeasure not verified
FMEA rows · 1
Fixture locator worn past intervalFMEA
PFMEA machining · S 7 · O 4 · D 5

Repeat findings matched before they recur. Past CARs, other lines and sites, and FMEA rows, compared shortly after the case opens.

Chase a data requestDrafted
SupplierFixture supplier · quality contactAsking forLocator material certification and wear data for Mill 3's fixtureFollow upEvery 3 working days, up to 3 times
Send requestDo it, with changesCancel
The supplier gets a secure upload link. What they send goes straight into the case.

Your sub-tier's evidence on a link. Conductor drafts the request and every follow-up, and what comes back is filed in the case.

Decision · actionsSigned · rev 2
ContainmentDone
WIP and finished stock quarantined; 212 parts re-inspected on CMM.K. Brooks
CorrectiveIn progress
Replace Mill 3 locators; set a replacement interval.Maintenance
CorrectiveIn progress
Controlled release of CMM programs to every shift.Quality
EffectivenessDue in 30 days
First 3 lots at 100% CMM, then sampling per plan.Quality

Effectiveness linked to the record. Each corrective action carries its own effectiveness check, so the next audit sees that the fix held.

Close the CAR before it follows you. Then it keeps paying back.

An escape costs more than the rework. A late or weak CAR shows up in source inspection, the supplier rating and the next award.

Your CARs a month, hours per CAR and chargeback exposure, priced on the home page.Price it for your team
Answers in the form your prime asks forYour prime's CAR response form8DSCARAS9100 auditsExcel and PowerPoint

Questions aerospace suppliers ask.

What does Lattice do for aerospace and defense suppliers?

Lattice investigates each CAR from your own records, fills your prime's response form, and links every corrective action to the evidence that it worked.

Does Lattice separate occurrence from escape?

Yes. Conductor, Lattice's AI quality engineer, fills the prime's form from travelers and inspection records with occurrence and escape answered separately, every line cited and the signature left to you.

How does Lattice help with AS9100 audits?

Each corrective action carries its own effectiveness check, linked to the record, so the next audit sees that the fix held.

How does Lattice handle sub-tier suppliers?

When the cause sits with your supplier, Conductor drafts the request and every follow-up. The supplier gets a secure upload link, and what comes back is filed in the case.

Try Lattice free on a complaint you already closed.

Ten business days, at no cost. Your engineers try Lattice on a real complaint: one your team already closed, or a guided sample complaint if you'd rather not share data. Nothing to install and no live integrations.

  1. 01Pick a complaintOne your team already closed, under NDA and a data protection agreement. Or our guided sample complaint, with no data shared.
  2. 02Watch Lattice work itIn an isolated workspace, your engineers watch the evidence, the hypotheses and the filled 8D build up.
  3. 03Compare, then decideSide by side with what you sent your customer: time to root cause, evidence cited, escape point found. Then a paid pilot on live complaints, with success criteria agreed in writing.

Licensed per site, not per seat. R&D, manufacturing and sister-plant colleagues join any investigation at no additional cost. Support, updates and integration maintenance included.