First Article Inspection
Streamlined Ballooning, Characteristic Management and Inspection Planning
Live!Inspect is a configurable first article inspection solution within the Live!QC ecosystem, helping organizations create inspection plans, manage characteristics, and maintain complete traceability from engineering drawings to inspection execution.
Trusted by Quality-Driven Organizations
Digital First Article Inspection, Simplified
Live!Inspect transforms engineering drawings into structured inspection plans through intelligent ballooning, characteristic management, and quality document integration.
Intelligent Drawing &
Ballooning
Configure drawings, identify characteristics, and create balloons efficiently in different drawing formats.
Comprehensive Characteristic
Management
Capture and classify dimensional, GD&T, surface finish, and critical characteristics with complete traceability.
Structured Inspection
Planning
Define inspection requirements, link quality documents, and create standardized inspection plans for consistent execution.
Complete inspection control, fully tailored to your workflow
Manage drawing ballooning, inspection characteristics, and quality planning in one configurable platform designed for consistency, traceability, and faster inspection readiness.
Digital First Article Inspection for Modern Manufacturing
- Configurable Drawing Layouts — Set drawing size, orientation, and grid allocation based on inspection requirements.
- Flexible Ballooning Methods — Create balloons using text selection or window selection for different drawing formats.
- Multi-Format Drawing Support — Work efficiently with both digital and image-based engineering drawings.
- Revision-Based Balloon Reuse — Import balloons from previous drawings to reduce preparation time and support changes.
- Complete Characteristic Capture — Capture dimensional, GD&T, surface finish, and engineering note requirements.
- Special & Critical Characteristics — Identify and classify characteristics that require specific quality attention.
- Centralized Characteristic Records — Maintain all inspection characteristics in a structured and accessible environment.
- Improved Traceability — Link characteristics to inspection requirements for greater visibility and control.
- Defined Inspection Requirements — Specify inspection methods, acceptance criteria, and measurement requirements.
- Structured Inspection Planning — Assign process numbers, inspection frequencies, and responsible functions.
- Integrated Quality Documents — Connect characteristics with Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEA, and Control Plans.
- Standardized Execution — Create consistent and repeatable inspection processes across products and teams.
- Comprehensive Inspection Reports — Generate Bill of Characteristics, inspection plans, and process characteristics.
- Ballooned Drawing Documentation — Export ballooned drawings and First Article Inspection documentation for downstream use.
- Revision Change Identification — Identify modified characteristics and mark obsolete balloons during drawing revisions.
- Complete Change Traceability — Maintain historical inspection information throughout engineering changes and revisions.
Live!Inspect is a comprehensive solution that helps organizations digitize the ballooning process, identify engineering drawing characteristics, create inspection plans, and generate structured First Article Inspection reports. It improves accuracy, traceability, and consistency while reducing manual documentation effort.
Live!Inspect supports the identification and documentation of various characteristic types, including dimensions, GD&T requirements, surface finish symbols, engineering notes, and special characteristics. Users can perform ballooning using text selection or window selection on image-based drawings.
Yes. Live!Inspect enables organizations to establish direct links between inspection characteristics and key quality planning documents such as Process Flow Diagrams, PFMEA, and Control Plans. This ensures complete traceability across the product realization process, improves consistency in quality planning, and simplifies the management of engineering changes.
Live!Inspect allows users to import balloons from previous versions of the same drawing, apply strikethrough to obsolete balloons, and generate reports such as the Bill of Characteristics (BOC) and process characteristics. These features help reduce repetitive work, maintain revision history, and streamline first article inspection documentation.
Balloon. Inspect. Validate.
Live!Inspect enables organizations to digitize and streamline first article inspection activities through advanced ballooning, characteristic management, inspection planning, quality document integration, and comprehensive reporting—helping teams improve accuracy, traceability, and compliance from drawing release to production approval.
