Aerospace Quality Management System | Consulting Services

Today, the aerospace industry faces increasing difficulties in demonstrating sound business performance while conforming to strict customer and regulatory requirements. Fortunately, over the last several years, the industry has achieved a high degree of consistency regarding aerospace quality management system (AQMS) requirements. While AS9100 “anchors” requirements for the manufacturing and airline sectors, AS9110 provides specific requirements in the maintenance of aviation industry products, including commercial, private, and military. For aerospace distributors, the AS9120 standard applies.

Understanding these requirements and implementing a management system that adds value to the business while ensuring conformity can be a challenge in itself. Defining the scope and challenges of the implementation effort, executing a clear and logical implementation plan, and ensuring that employees at all levels understand their roles and are well equipped to excel in AQMS-based operations are essential to success.

STAT-A-MATRIX has services that can provide you an edge in ensuring a smooth and successful path to AQMS registration. Using our 14-Step Implementation Process, we have assisted hundreds of companies with AS9100, AS9110, and AS9120 implementation, gaining significant knowledge of how registration can benefit companies and assist in achieving their missions. STAT-A-MATRIX customers include key major aerospace firms as well as large and small organizations within the aerospace supply chain.Ê Our process has also been used successfully with other standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO/TS 16949, ISO 13485, and the medical device GMP.

We have a full range of consulting services aligned with each step of the 14-Step Process to not only assist in your registration efforts, but also use the AQMS implementation to help focus on opportunities to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and reduce cycle time. Our consulting services and training map into the major critical activities necessary to achieve AQMS registration. Therefore, we can provide the right level of training and consulting at the right phase of your implementation plan to reduce your staff hours needed to achieve registration. At the same time, we are matching your organization’s operating style, business goals, culture, and budget. Our approach is not “one size fits all.” We will work with your executive team to tailor the program to your specific needs.

1. Management Orientation: Deliverable: Management understanding of the third-party registration process
2. Baseline Evaluation: Deliverable: Baseline evaluation report/Gap analysis
3. Management Planning: Deliverable: Detailed action plan
4. Responsibility Matrix: Deliverable: Responsibility matrix
5. Process Mapping: Deliverables:
• SIPOC diagrams
• End-to-end business operations process maps
• Process maps of company operations
6. Quality Steering Committee: Deliverable: Steering committee selection and training
7. System-Level Procedures (SLPs): Deliverables:
• List of system-level procedures to be documented
• Flowcharts of required SLPs
• Completed system-level procedures
• Review, comment, and counsel on SLPs .
8. Quality Manual: Deliverables:
• Completed quality manual
• Review, comment, and counsel on quality manual
9. Instructions: Deliverables: Instruction writing, counsel and review, and training
10. Internal Audit: Deliverables:
    • Documented and validated internal audit system
    • Auditor training
    • Counsel and assistance for internal auditors
    • Completed internal audit and report
11. Preassessment: Deliverable: Audit report
12. Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA): Deliverables:
• Documented and validated CAPA system
• Corrective action review
13. Registration or Compliance Audit: Deliverable: Assistance during third-party registration audit. STAT-A-MATRIX can remain on-site during the registration audit to help answer questions and correct nonconformances before the auditors leave the site.

A typical timeline for AQMS implementation and registrations is as shown:

Our consulting staff includes specialists with extensive aerospace experience who meet the stringent Aerospace Experience Auditor (AEA) certification requirements set forth by the a href="stake.php">Americas Aerospace Quality Group (AAQG) in AS 9104/3 and RABQSA International. We help organizations with executive awareness sessions as well as all activities related to establishing, documenting, and implementing a management system that conforms to AS9100C, AS9110A, AS9120A, and other relevant aerospace specifications, including a preregistration audit and resolution of nonconformity issues.

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