Configuration management, risk management and all aspects of a product’s life cycle are part of quality management systems in the aerospace industry.  To ensure controls are established and effective over time, aerospace organizations have developed process-based management systems.  The systems deploy the requirements for collecting and analyzing data and then taking the action necessary to improve the system.

The aerospace industry (through the SAE and EAAI) has further developed ISO 9001 so that it includes requirements on specific concern to organizations participating in the aerospace supply chain.  AS9100 is the general standard; AS9110 applies to maintenance, repair and overhaul stations; AS9120 applies to stockist or pass-through distributors.  While these standards provide good, agreed management practices, simply conforming to these standards does not guarantee operational excellence.

At QMII, we pride ourselves in our >20 year history of helping clients develop process-based quality management systems in the aerospace industry, long before conformity and compliance through continual process improvement became popular.  This history and approach is integrated into our training.

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