Turtle Diagram of Key Process

What machines, equipment, software

and materials are used to do this
Audit Checklist
process? Record answers and notes on blank turtle diagrams,
Who is involved with this process?
audit checklists, and/or note pages. (Departments and Job functions)
Are there adequate resources?
What training and skills are required?
Is the equipment maintained and
supported? List people participating in the process audit (owners and/or Are there any special skills,
performers of the process) and verify training and competency certifications or training needed?
Are there any calibration requirements?
records.
What records of training exist?

What is the process being audited?

What inputs are required to do this
process? Observe all aspects of the process being What outputs come out of this process?
done. Ask questions about how the process
What comes from internal and external What gets delivered to internal and
customers?
gets done by the people doing the process. external customers?

What current records and historical

evidence can you see to prove
effectiveness of the process?
Who is the process owner? Are records adequate per plan?
What measurement or performance
indicators exist?
What are the roles, responsibilities and
What monitoring or measuring is there? authorities of the owner?
How is the performance and trends? What procedures or work instructions
exist for this process?
What goals are there?
Get and review all appropriate
Is there any customer feedback? Collect documents looked at and their identifying number and documentation.
revision date.
How effective is the process?
Are there any obsolete documents in use? Do the employees clearly demonstrate
Are employees and management Are all documents used for production control? that they can do their jobs per the
aware of negative trends and is there Are documents populated and signed as required? documented procedures and work
anything being done about them? instructions?

What other Processes does this one link to or interact with? What examples can be followed into other processes? Follow audit trails from this process into other processes to assure the linkage,
sequence and interaction are working as intended.

What are the applicable AS9100 Rev C clauses that affect this process? Make sure the audit checklist asks appropriate questions from these AS clauses.