AC7114 slash sheets Audit Preparation for Inspection Companies

A AC7114 slash sheets audit runs in 6 stages, beginning with select the slash sheets that match the methods actually performed and confirm.. Performance Review Institute (PRI) — Nadcap NDT Task Group; the supplemental 'S' sheets are owned by the individual subscribing primes tests the system by sampling finished work backwards to the records behind it, so preparation means reconciling records to jobs rather than rewriting manuals.

The slash sheets are where Nadcap NDT gets method-specific. AC7114 states it 'is supplemented by Audit Criteria for specific NDT processes to be accredited and shall be used with the applicable Subscriber Supplemental Checklists.' Each method has a numbered slash sheet audited alongside the base; each has an 'S' twin carrying prime-specific questions keyed to subscriber codes; and each has a lettered attachment form on which the site declares its materials and equipment for that method. Scope, revision and effective date are all tracked per sheet, so a single site's certificate routinely lists documents at different revisions with different 'to be used on audits on/after' dates. Getting the slash-sheet selection wrong is the fastest way to have real work fall outside the accredited scope. What separates firms that clear an audit from firms that collect findings is not the quality of the documentation but whether it describes what actually happens.

Source: AC7114 Rev L (Revised 21-SEP-2017) read in full — Section 2.2.1/2.2.2 for the attachment series AC7114-A and AC7114/1A–/9A and the Subscriber Matrix, and the certification-record tables listing AC7114/1, /2, '/3 and /7', /4, /5, /6, /8, /9. Slash-sheet titles and revisions taken from PRI-issued Scopes of Accreditation: AC7114/1 Rev N and Rev O (Penetrant), /2 Rev N and Rev P (Magnetic Particle), /3 Rev N and Rev O (Ultrasonic), /4 Rev N (Film Radiography), /5 Rev F (Eddy Current), /9 Rev B (Remote Image and Film Viewing), /10 Rev B (Digital Radiography DDA and CR/PSL), and the matching /1S, /2S, /3S, /4S, /5S, /10S supplements with subscriber codes U1 Honeywell, U2 Pratt & Whitney, U3 Rolls-Royce plc, U4 Lockheed Martin, U6 Rolls-Royce Corporation, U10 GE Aviation, U11 Boeing, U14 Safran, U16 Bell Helicopter, U17 Sikorsky, U21 Eaton, U26 Collins Aerospace (Goodrich). AC7114/11 Rev A is listed as a posted document on the Japanese Aerospace Quality Group AC list dated 03-Dec-2021. NOTE: the numbers AC7114/6, /7, /8 and /11 are confirmed to exist, but their subject titles were not verifiable from a primary source and are deliberately not stated here — AC7114/7 is grouped with AC7114/3 in the base checklist's personnel-record table, which places it in the ultrasonic family. All sources accessed 21 Aug 2026.

AC7114 slash sheets audit — stages and what each tests
Stage	What happens	What it tests
Stage 1	Select the slash sheets that match the methods actually performed and confirm them on the eAuditNet scope verification screen with.	Where the paperwork is tested against itself
Stage 2	Check revision effectivity before preparing: PRI publishes each sheet with a 'to be used on audits on/after' date and issues.	Where the paperwork is tested against practice
Stage 3	Complete a self-audit per slash sheet and populate the matching AC7114/nA attachment with the site's materials and equipment for that.	Where the paperwork is tested against practice
Stage 4	Provide one compliance job per method so the auditor can follow a real part through that method's process procedure, technique.	Where the paperwork is tested against practice
Stage 5	Answer the subscriber supplemental questions for each prime on the Subscriber Matrix; supplements are audited in the same visit and.	Where the paperwork is tested against practice
Stage 6	Close NCRs per document in eAuditNet; the Task Group ballots the whole pack, and the resulting certificate lists each slash.	Where the paperwork is tested against practice
Renewal	The slash sheets follow the base accreditation cycle — 12 months initially, extendable to 18 and then 24 months under the Supplier Merit Program — but each document is revised on its own clock. A single 2025-dated certificate shows AC7114 Rev S effective for audits on/after 19-May-2024, AC7114/2 Rev P and AC7114/3 Rev O both on/after 17-Mar-2024, and AC7114/1 Rev O marked for audits before 16-Feb-2025, meaning a newer revision took effect mid-cycle. Revision effectivity must be re-checked before every audit, not once per accreditation.	Diarised from the certificate date, not the last audit

How long does AC7114 slash sheets audit preparation take?

Document work — the written practice, procedures and quality manual — takes weeks. What cannot be compressed is documented experience and records history: on-the-job hours accrue in real time, and calibration and certification history cannot be back-filled. Firms that start when the audit is scheduled rather than announced clear it without findings.

What does Performance Review Institute (PRI) — Nadcap NDT Task Group; the supplemental 'S' sheets are owned by the individual subscribing primes look at first?

Records, not manuals. A manual states intent; records show practice. The usual opening move is to take a completed job and trace it back to the technician's certification, the instrument's calibration, the approved procedure and the report — and see whether all four reconcile.

What are the most common AC7114 slash sheets findings?

Scope on the Qualified Manufacturers List does not match what the shop runs — most often digital radiography or computed radiography performed while only the film radiography sheet AC7114/4 is on the scope, Self-audit prepared on a superseded slash-sheet revision after PRI had already posted and notified the new one, Subscriber Matrix inaccurate, so the supplemental checklist for a prime that has approved the site was never run — AC7114 states this is cause for a follow-up audit, Per-method material and equipment attachment (AC7114/1A through /9A) not completed or not available at the time of the audit. Almost all of them are evidence problems rather than capability problems: the work was done correctly and the proof was not kept, or was kept somewhere the firm could not retrieve during the audit.

Can a consultant attend the AC7114 slash sheets audit?

Yes, and it changes the outcome. Someone who has sat through the same audit at other firms answers in the auditor's own terms, produces the right record without a search, and stops a clarification turning into a finding. The firm still owns every answer — the consultant does not speak for it.

What happens after a AC7114 slash sheets finding?

A corrective action with a deadline, and evidence of closure at the next audit. Repeat findings are treated far more seriously than first ones, because they show the corrective-action system itself is not working.

Does AC7114 slash sheets require a pre-audit or gap assessment?

Not as a requirement, but the arithmetic favours it: a gap assessment finds the same evidence problems the auditor would, without the finding attached, and while there is still time to fix them. Firms entering their first AC7114 slash sheets audit blind typically collect findings that a sampling exercise would have caught.

What the auditor asks to see

The applicable slash sheet completed as a self-audit for every method in scope, uploaded with the base AC7114 self-audit 30 days before the audit
The applicable subscriber supplemental sheet (AC7114S, AC7114/1S, /2S, /3S, /4S, /5S, /10S) for each prime shown on the Subscriber Matrix
Per-method material and equipment attachment forms: AC7114/1A, /2A, /3A, /4A, /5A, /6A, /7A, /8A, /9A
Method process procedure and the technique sheets or data cards for the parts to be run as compliance jobs
Records for the process control tools and reference standards used for equipment set-up in that method
Certification packages, filed so they can be produced by method and level for each slash sheet on the scope
Current Scope of Accreditation from the eAuditNet Qualified Manufacturers List, to confirm which slash sheets and revisions the site is actually accredited to

Findings to close before the audit

Scope on the Qualified Manufacturers List does not match what the shop runs — most often digital radiography or computed radiography performed while only the film radiography sheet AC7114/4 is on the scope
Self-audit prepared on a superseded slash-sheet revision after PRI had already posted and notified the new one
Subscriber Matrix inaccurate, so the supplemental checklist for a prime that has approved the site was never run — AC7114 states this is cause for a follow-up audit
Per-method material and equipment attachment (AC7114/1A through /9A) not completed or not available at the time of the audit
Technique sheets or data cards for the method not reviewed and approved by a Level 3 certified in that specific method
Process control tools or reference standards used for equipment set-up in the method not controlled, calibrated or traceable
No compliance job available for a method in scope, so the auditor cannot witness that method end to end
Subscriber supplemental questions answered by pointing at the base-checklist response rather than the prime's specific requirement