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.
Management Orientation - Deliverable: Management understanding
of the third-party 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 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.