AS9100 Consulting Services

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.

1. Management Orientation - Deliverable: Management Understanding of Registration Process

2. Baseline Evaluation - Deliverable: Baseline Evaluation Report

3. Management Planning - Deliverable: Action Plan

4. Responsibility Matrix - Deliverable: Responsibility Matrix

5. Macroflowcharting (Process Mapping) - Deliverable: Macroflowchart of Company Operations

6. Form and Train the Steering Committee - Deliverable: Steering Committee Selection and Training

7. Identify Specific System-Level Procedures - Deliverable: List of System-Level Procedures to Be Documented

8. Prepare System-Level Procedures (SLPs)

• Flowchart System-Level Procedures - Deliverable: Flowcharts of Required SLPs
• Walk Through, Document, and Validate SLPs - Deliverable: Completed System-Level Procedure

9. Write Quality Manual - Deliverable: Draft Quality Manual

10. Flowchart, Improve, Document Instructions - Deliverable: Instruction Writing and Training

11. Train Personnel and Conduct Internal Audits - Deliverable: Documented and Validated Internal Audit System

12. Perform Preassessment Evaluation - Deliverable: Audit Report

13. Take Corrective Action and Review Results - Deliverable: Corrective Action Review

14. 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.

See also:

• The STAT-A-MATRIX 14-Step Implementation Process
• The STAT-A-MATRIX Lean Six Sigma Overview