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Free QC templates for small manufacturers
Working Excel tools — not blank tables with a logo. Built over a 16-year career in manufacturing quality, tested, and free: no card, no account, just an email for the download link.
CAPA Log & Dashboard (Excel)
Corrective & preventive action tracker: auto-numbered CAPA log with root cause and effectiveness columns, color-coded status, and a live KPI dashboard. 100% macro-free.
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NCR Log & Dashboard (Excel)
Nonconformance log with defect categories, dispositions, severity, auto-aging, estimated cost, and a live dashboard — the spreadsheet every shop rebuilds from scratch. Macro-free.
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Gauge Calibration Log (Excel)
Gauge register with automatic next-due dates, OVERDUE / DUE SOON flags, a calibration history log, and a live dashboard. Macro-free.
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Because I built them dozens of times anyway. Sixteen years in quality — machining, fabrication, assembly — and at every shop the same spreadsheets got rebuilt from scratch: the audit log, the CAPA tracker, the gauge list. These are the versions I kept coming back to, cleaned up and documented so they work on day one.
The honest part: NominalQC is the software those spreadsheets eventually grow into. If a template does the job for your shop, run it forever with my blessing. If you hit the point where the workbook can’t chase people, block bad saves, or prove itself to an auditor — that’s what the app is for, from $29/month flat for the whole shop.