Equipment Calibration Records for AC7114 slash sheets

AC7114 slash sheets names this requirement as "Per-method material and equipment attachment forms: AC7114/1A, /2A, /3A, /4A, /5A, /6A, /7A, /8A, /9A". The equipment custodian owns it, and a contracted Level III can author and sign it.

The finding auditors record against this document is: Per-method material and equipment attachment (AC7114/1A through /9A) not completed or not available at the time of the audit. 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.

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.

Equipment Calibration Records under AC7114 slash sheets — owner, content and how it is tested
Item	What applies	Why it matters
Regime	Nadcap NDT method slash sheets and subscriber supplemental checklists — the AC7114/n and AC7114/nS series	Enforced by Performance Review Institute (PRI) — Nadcap NDT Task Group; the supplemental 'S' sheets are owned by the individual subscribing primes
Document	Equipment Calibration Records	the traceable evidence that every instrument was in calibration on the day it was used
Owner	the equipment custodian	The signature an auditor traces back
Where it is checked	Answer the subscriber supplemental questions for each prime on the Subscriber Matrix; supplements are audited in the same.	Usually against a sampled job, not in isolation
Common failure	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	The gap between the manual and the job file

What must a equipment calibration records contain under AC7114 slash sheets?

It has to satisfy AC7114 slash sheets as Performance Review Institute (PRI) — Nadcap NDT Task Group; the supplemental 'S' sheets are owned by the individual subscribing primes enforces it: the traceable evidence that every instrument was in calibration on the day it was used. The test is not completeness on paper but traceability — an auditor picks a finished job and works backwards to this document, so anything it claims must be demonstrable on that job.

Who signs the equipment calibration records for AC7114 slash sheets?

The equipment custodian. Because this regime accepts employer-based certification, that role can be filled by a contracted Level III rather than a staff appointment, provided they are qualified in the methods they sign for.

How does a AC7114 slash sheets auditor test this document?

By sampling. They take a completed job, find the technicians and equipment used, and trace each back through this document to the evidence behind it. A document that reads well but cannot survive that trace is the most common finding across every regime, not just this one.

How long must AC7114 slash sheets records be kept?

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. Retention is set by the regime and by the client contract above it, and the longer of the two governs. Firms that set one retention period for everything and document it fare better at audit than firms tracking different periods per record type and losing track.

Does a generic template satisfy AC7114 slash sheets?

No. A downloaded template describes a generic firm, and the first question an auditor asks is whether the document describes THIS firm — its methods, its equipment, its people, its actual workflow. Templates are a starting structure; the content has to be the firm's own or the trace fails immediately.

What happens if this document is missing at a AC7114 slash sheets audit?

It is a finding, and depending on the regime it can suspend the certificate rather than merely generate a corrective action. The related finding auditors record most often is: 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

Where this sits in the AC7114 slash sheets evidence pack

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

Personnel certification context

The slash sheets do not create a separate certification scheme — certification stays employer-based to NAS 410/EN 4179 under the base document. What they do is define the granularity: the base checklist's certification-record table is laid out by slash sheet, with a row for AC7114/1, /2, '/3 and /7', /4, /5, /6, /8 and /9, and the auditor reviews at least one certification package for each method at each level issued since the last audit. So the Level 3 — internal or external — must hold NAS 410/EN 4179 certification in every method whose slash sheet is on the scope, and personnel certificates must name the technique, not just the method.