Today, the aerospace industry faces increasing challenges to achieve sound business performance, while conforming to customer and regulatory requirements. The good news is that over the last several years, the industry has achieved a high degree of consistency as it relates to quality management system requirements. While AS9100 “anchors” requirements for the manufacturing sector, AS9110 provides specific requirements that are applicable in the area of maintenance of aerospace vehicles including commercial, private and military. For distributors, AS9120 applies.
Understanding these requirements, and implementing a management system that adds value to the business, while ensuring conformity, can be a challenge in itself. That’s why STAT-A-MATRIX will be there for you. If achieving certification is part of your strategic objectives, STAT-A-MATRIX 14-Step Process will get you there.
The STAT-A-MATRIX 14-Step
Implementation Process
SAM offers consulting services packaged in a
process designed to take a client through quality
management system (QMS) development and implementation
process and registration in a most timely, effective,
and efficient manner. The process is equally
applicable to ISO 9001, TL 9000, ISO/TS 16949,
AS9100, or the medical device GMP.
Description of the 14-Step
Implementation Process
The chart below describes the STAT-A-MATRIX
14-step implementation process, and the bullet
points hightlights SAM efforts and deliverables.
SAM can participate in any or all of the steps,
as required.
Management Orientation - Deliverable: Management Understanding
of Registration Process
Take Corrective Action
and Review Results - Deliverable:
Corrective Action Review
Registration or Compliance
Audit - SAM can remain on-site during
the registration audit to help answer questions
and correct nonconformances before the auditors
leave the site. Deliverable: Assistance
During Registration Audit
SAM’S consulting staff includes specialists with extensive aerospace experience who meet the stringent auditor certification requirements set forth by the Americas Aerospace Quality Group (AAQG), and RABQSA International. We assist organizations with executive awareness sessions, and all activities related to establishing, documenting and implementing a management system that conforms to AS9100 and other relevant aerospace specifications, including a pre-registration audit and resolution of nonconformity issues.
STAT-A-MATRIX customers include major aerospace organizations as well as large and small organizations within the aerospace supply chain.
If you are already in compliance, and seek improvements beyond the foundation provided by your management system, look to Lean and Six Sigma as a logical follow-on to AS9100 in that they provide a large number of continual improvement tools that impact the overall organization’s efficiency and effectiveness.