Aerospace

Supplier Process Management Problems

The Aerospace industry requires a very high degree of quality and precision on every part produced. At the same time, competitive pressures to drive down cost are forcing the industry to source more and more content of their products to suppliers, requiring the management of complicated global supplier communities. Aerospace companies are looking at the Advanced Product Quality Planning standard (APQP), developed by the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), as a way to improve product quality be forcing earlier visibility to risk. Many companies have defined a process, but deploying it with their entire supplier community brings many challenges.

• I can’t tell what requirements are due when, and who is responsible.
• Finding the correct revision of a document is difficult, both during and after launch.
• Time is wasted collecting data, meeting about it, and producing status reports that are out of date.
• Tracking status across suppliers, products and programs is difficult if not impossible

AS9100 Compliance Problems

The  AS91000 standard, based upon the ISO 9001 quality management system standard with specific requirements added for the Aerospace industry, provides guidelines for insuring that each part meets the highest quality standards by requiring First Article Inspection and key characteristics management. An organization trying to implement this standard faces a number of challenges.

• I am not ready to pass an AS9100 audit.
• I can’t find the correct documentation.
• It is too difficult to develop the right document.
• My document does not meet the requirements of the AS9100 standard.
• My company spends too much money on compliance efforts.
• My company is not able to keep up with changes to documents.
• I need to bring my documentation up to the current version of the standard.