Tier-1 & Tier-2 Suppliers
OEM customer-specific requirements, PPAP submissions, warranty avoidance.
Engineered Pre-Audit Compliance
Close the gap between your design intent and your shop floor. Bluefolder pre-checks IATF 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 readiness — then re-checks after corrective action, until your confidence score is 80%+.
Target confidence before external audit
Management system standards covered
Layers — systems, processes, products
Re-check iterations until gaps close
Solutions
Automotive compliance lives across three layers. Bluefolder checks each — and how they line up with one another.
Pre-audit your QMS, EMS and OH&S systems against the standards your customers and regulators actually use. Upload your manual, procedures and records — Bluefolder reads them like an auditor would.
The Bluefolder is the heart of automotive process design — PFD, PFMEA and Control Plan as one connected document. Upload yours for a gap-check against the 2D drawing, or let Bluefolder generate a first draft from the design itself.
Upload the Bluefolder. We flag inconsistencies, missing characteristics and weak controls.
Upload the 2D drawing. Bluefolder drafts the PFD, PFMEA and PCP — with capacity, cost and bottlenecks.
Your 2D drawing is the contract with your customer. Bluefolder makes it the contract with your process too — every dimension, GD&T callout and special characteristic traced through to a control.
Most non-conformances start as silent gaps between what the drawing requires and what the process actually controls. Bluefolder surfaces them before your customer does.
Industries
Automotive first — but the same playbook applies wherever a drawing has to meet a process.
OEM customer-specific requirements, PPAP submissions, warranty avoidance.
Special characteristic traceability, IATF 16949 readiness for high-mix programmes.
GD&T-heavy drawings, tight cpk targets, CMM-driven control plans.
Process capability evidence, energy and environmental aspects under ISO 14001.
Traceability, ESD controls, layered process audits (LPA) discipline.
Generate the Bluefolder from the drawing — PFD, PFMEA, PCP with capacity and cost.
How It Works
Drop in your manual, procedures, drawings or Bluefolder. We support PDF, DOCX, XLSX and image scans.
Bluefolder maps your evidence to clause requirements and design characteristics, returning a confidence score.
You close the flagged gaps, run internal audits, and update the Bluefolder where the process changed.
Re-run pre-checks as many times as needed. Walk into the external audit with quantified confidence.
On-Site & Training
Bluefolder training is hands-on. We bring our tooling to your site, run a live pre-audit on your documents and processes, and coach your team to repeat it without us. For a new product launch, we'll sit down with engineering and draft the Bluefolder from the drawing together.
Walk through the pre-audit on a sample QMS. Best for leadership teams.
Live pre-audit on your real documents. Gap report and corrective action plan to take away.
Management systems, Bluefolder generation and 2D-drawing traceability. Train-the-trainer.
Booking
Tell us about your site and goals. We'll come back within one business day with a proposal.
Thanks — we'll reply to your email within one business day with a session proposal and available dates.
Principles
We don't repurpose your data. Uploaded files are deleted on request after engagement.
We help you pass your external audit. We don't replace it — and we're upfront about that line.
Every gap we flag points to a specific clause, drawing requirement or control. No hand-waving.
Bluefolder proposes. Your engineers approve. A force multiplier, not an autopilot.
FAQ
No. Bluefolder is a pre-audit and process design service. Your external certification audit still has to be performed by an accredited certification body. We help you walk in with quantified confidence that you'll pass.
PDF, DOCX, XLSX and common image formats for documents and 2D drawings. For Bluefolder generation we accept exported PDFs of CAD drawings. Native CAD formats (STEP, IGES) are on the roadmap.
Yes. Client documents are processed on your behalf only, never repurposed, and deleted on request after engagement. See our privacy policy for full detail.
Our analysis is calibrated against the actual clauses of IATF 16949 and the ISO standards we cover, plus AIAG and VDA reference manuals for PFD, PFMEA and Control Plans. Every flag points to a specific source. Your engineers always make the final call.
The score reflects how completely your evidence answers each clause or characteristic. 80%+ is our recommended floor before an external audit — high enough to indicate the system is genuinely in control, with room for live findings that don't sink the audit.
Yes — anywhere in Australia, and selectively internationally. Most engagements blend an on-site workshop with remote follow-up. Travel costs are quoted separately and transparently.
That's one of our strongest use cases. Upload the 2D drawing and we'll draft the PFD, PFMEA and Control Plan with you — including capacity sizing at your intended volume, resource costs, and a flagged list of process bottlenecks before you cut steel.
About
Bluefolder is the working name for our pre-audit compliance practice. We've spent careers inside automotive quality — and we've seen how often the gap between a drawing and a shop floor process only surfaces during a customer audit, or worse, a warranty claim.
Our focus is automotive manufacturing first, broader IATF / ISO pre-compliance second. We're practitioners, not certifying bodies. Bluefolder doesn't replace your external audit — it makes sure you don't fail it.