AS9100/AS9110 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 quality management system requirements. While AS9100 “anchors” requirements for the manufacturing sector, AS9110 provides specific requirements in the maintenance of aerospace vehicles (repair stations) 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.

If achieving certification is part of your strategic objectives, the STAT-A-MATRIX detailed 14-Step Process will help you get there.

The STAT-A-MATRIX 14-Step Implementation Process
STAT-A-MATRIX offers comprehensive consulting services to help you through the quality management system (QMS) development and implementation process and registration in an effective, efficient manner. Our process has been used successfully with hundreds of companies using AS9100 as well as other standards such as ISO 9001, TL 9000, ISO/TS 16949, ISO 13485, or the medical device GMP.

Summary Description of the 14-Step Implementation Process
The following chart describes the STAT-A-MATRIX (SAM) 14-step implementation process highlighting SAM’s efforts and deliverables. SAM can support any or all of the steps, as required.

14 step process graphic

Management Orientation - Deliverable: Management understanding of the third-party registration process
Baseline Evaluation - Deliverable: Baseline evaluation report
Management Planning - Deliverable: Detailed action plan
Responsibility Matrix - Deliverable: Responsibility matrix
Macroflowcharting (Process Mapping) - Deliverable: Macroflowchart of company operations
Form and Train the Steering Committee - Deliverable: Steering committee selection and training
Identify Specific System-Level Procedures - Deliverable: List of system-level procedures to be documented
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
Prepare a Quality Manual - Deliverable: Draft quality manual
Flowchart, Improve, Document Instructions - Deliverable: Instruction writing and training
Train Personnel and help Conduct Internal Audits - Deliverable: Documented and validated internal audit system
Perform Preassessment Evaluation - Deliverable: Audit report
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 third-party registration audit

SAM’S consulting staff includes specialists with extensive aerospace experience who meet the stringent auditor certification requirements (AEA) set forth by the Americas Aerospace Quality Group (AAQG) and RABQSA International. We help assist organizations with executive awareness sessions as well as all activities related to establishing, documenting, and implementing a management system that conforms to AS9100 and other relevant aerospace specifications, including a preregistration audit and resolution of nonconformity issues.

STAT-A-MATRIX customers include major prime aerospace firms as well as large and small organizations within the aerospace supply chain.

If you are already AS9100-compliant and seek improvements beyond the foundation provided by your management system, look to Lean and Six Sigma as a logical follow-on for the continual improvement tools they provide to increase the overall organization’s efficiency and effectiveness.