Inspection Plan Builder

The problem this kills

Two inspectors check the same part on two shifts and measure two different things. One eyeballs a chamfer, the other reaches for a gauge. The spec on the print says one tolerance, the tribal-knowledge "we usually let it slide to here" says another. Inspection plans live in a binder, a tab on someone's spreadsheet, and a senior inspector's head - and none of them agree.

When the characteristics, tolerances, methods, gauges, and sampling frequencies aren't pinned down in one approved place, your quality data is noise. You can't trust the SPC charts, you can't prove first-article conformance to a customer, and you can't onboard a new inspector without weeks of shadowing. Worse, when a print revision lands, nobody knows which plan is current and which is stale.

This tool makes the inspection plan a real, governed asset: one approved list of what to check, how to check it, with what gauge, and how often - versioned every time it changes, and locked behind a quality-engineer sign-off before anyone can inspect against it.

What you'll build

A small, login-protected web app for your quality team where:

• A quality planner enters or imports inspection characteristics for an item + operation - nominal, tolerance, inspection method, gauge, and sampling frequency.
• The system validates each characteristic: lower tolerance below upper, method and gauge present, no nonsense ranges.
• A draft plan goes to a quality engineer to review and approve - nothing becomes "active" until a person signs off.
• Approved plans are versioned: change anything and you create a new revision, with the old one preserved and a full audit trail of who changed what, when.
• The active plan is published for reuse by your other inspection tools, and exported as a clean CSV in the exact columns your system expects.

What's inside the Implementation Plan

• A copy-paste runbook you feed to an AI coding agent (Claude Code) - no prior coding needed.
• It opens by interviewing you about your business - your current process, your prints and specs, your real field names and item/operation/revision conventions, your gauge list, your sampling rules, and your messy edge cases - then tailors the data model and validations to your shop, not a generic template.
• Step-by-step build prompts, each ending with a ready-to-paste block.
• A No-API fallback that takes a spec CSV in and gives a clean inspection-plan CSV out, so it's fully buildable today even with zero integration to your ERP or QMS.

The governance it includes (this is the point)

• Login so only your quality team can touch it.
• Row-level security so each organization only ever sees its own plans.
• A complete audit trail - who entered, edited, approved, and revised every plan and characteristic.
• A hard human-in-the-loop approval gate - the tool drafts and validates, a quality engineer reviews and approves, and only then does a plan become active.
• Duplicate guards keyed on item + operation + revision so the same plan can't be created or processed twice.

Who it's for

Quality engineers and quality planners in manufacturing who own inspection planning and need every shift, line, and inspector to check the same characteristics the same way - and who need to prove it.

You've got this. Paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.