Digital Quality Assurance and Inspection Pathway (without Awareness)

Sign up for this Digital QA and Inspection pathway if you have already taken the Awareness level training. 

CCAT's Quality Assurance and Inspection training pathway includes the following courses over three days:

• Wednesday:
• Inspection Plan Authoring Automation for MBD
• First Article Inspection Automation for MBD
• Thursday:
• Introduction to Inspection Workflows for MBD
• Intermediate Inspection Workflows for MBD
• Friday:
• Automated Programming of CMM Inspection
• Automated Programming of Non-Contact Inspection

• Learn to generate inspection plans automatically from MBD models (CAD + PMI).
• Understand how to translate geometric and tolerance information (GD&T) into structured inspection workflows.
• Leverage model semantics (like QIF) for downstream inspection planning.
• Understand foundational inspection workflows using MBD—how MBD data propagates through inspection operations.
• Learn principles of mapping MBD to inspection tasks and quality checkpoints.
• Master automated creation of CMM programs directly from MBD.
• Know how to translate part geometry, features, and tolerances into measurement routines with minimal manual intervention.
• Understand how to automate scanning or vision-based inspection setups from MBD.
• Learn to configure non-contact measurement hardware leveraging semantic CAD data for automation.

CCAT’s Digital Quality & Inspection training path is designed for engineers, inspectors, programmers, managers, and defense suppliers who need to adopt Model-Based Definition (MBD) and digital inspection practices. It supports both hands-on technical skills and strategic workforce readiness, aligning with DoD digital engineering mandates and the broader digital thread ecosystem.

Students signing up for Digital QA and Inspection Week (without awareness) should have already taken the Tuesday Awareness Training: 

• Tuesday - Awareness:
• Digital Thread Concepts and Value Proposition
• Next Gen TDPs and MBD Workflows