CCAT's Quality Assurance and Inspection training pathway includes the following courses over four day:
Tuesday - Awareness:
Digital Thread Concepts and Value Proposition
Next Gen TDPs and MBD Workflows
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
Target Audience
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.
Learning Objectives
- 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.