Aviation, Space & Defense

We Know the Aerospace Industry

 
The Aerospace industry faces critical quality challenges, particularly highlighted by recent incidents at Boeing. At Quality Auditing, we understand the importance of addressing these challenges head-on. Our ASD Division specializes in providing comprehensive AS9100 Auditing & Consulting Services tailored to the unique needs of clients in the Aerospace and Defense sector. With a deep understanding of industry standards and regulations, our experienced auditors offer strategic guidance to navigate complex quality requirements. We prioritize safety, reliability, and operational excellence to help organizations achieve and maintain AS9100D compliance. Discover how the ASD Division of Quality Auditing can elevate your quality management practices and drive excellence in the Aviation, Space, and Defense industry.
 
Please explore our site to better understand how the ASD Division of Quality Auditing LLC can help you. 

Our Experts Drive Your Competitive Advantage

Our people share perspectives gained from decades of dedicated industry focus and thousands of engagements. They speak your language. They understand your world. Their industry insights provide you with a truly distinctive edge.
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Global Reach, Local Presence

Our specialized network of Aerospace experts allows us to provide our clients with local auditors & consultants. This is a distinguishing feature of our service. Having local expertise allows mutually beneficial long term relationships and helps us reduce our lead time when scheduling. Perhaps most importantly, we know you’d rather spend your limited resources hiring the most qualified experts, not paying for travel expenses.

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Proven Expertise

Our aerospace experts are credentialed by industry leading organizations including International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG), Probitas, & IRCA and have a broad range of real-world experience, education, and backgrounds. For our clients, this translates to the best, most up-to-date knowledge of industry best practices and guidance on compliance requirements.

We utilize a proprietary system for qualifying and monitoring performance of our team to ensure that you always receive the highest level of service.

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Guaranteed Satisfaction

We’re so confident in our ability to meet your needs that we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Simply put, if you aren’t happy with the service we provide, give us one chance to make it right. If we can’t get it right the next time – we will refund your money. Plain and simple.

Services

We provide the Aviation, Space, and Defense Industry with AS9100 Auditing & Consulting Services to improve safety, mitigate supply & production risks, and increase compliance with industry regulations.

Internal Auditing

Supplier Auditing

Compliance Consulting

Internal Auditing

Our auditors conduct internal assessment of our clients AS9100 Quality Management System to help continual improvement and meet the requirements of AS9100’s Internal Audit clause. The scope of internal audits is tailored specifically to our client’s needs and requirements. Companies in the aerospace industry contract us to conduct their internal audit program for a variety of reasons.

  • Better Resource Utilization: Everyone is trying to do more with less these days and we understand your have key personnel working on competing priorities.  Internal Auditing is an area that is easy to outsource to free up internal resources and it is not particularly costly.
  • Access to Best Practices: Our auditors have seen the implementation of AS9100 at hundreds of companies. Their experience is a competitive advantage we leverage for our clients.
  • Expertise: It is expensive and time consuming to become an expert in AS9100 and almost a full time job to keep abreast of changes, such as the transition to Revision D in 2016 and the upcoming release of IA9100.  Many clients have said that outsourcing internal audits is one way to let employees focus on other duties.  For small organizations, this is an even bigger challenge – as they may entirely lack the expertise.  Our auditors are AS9100 experts who can impart their knowledge on your organization and help drive continuous improvement efforts.
  • Impartiality: AS9100 requires auditors to be impartial of the areas being audited and many organizations, especially the smaller companies, struggle to meet this requirement. When certified auditors perform a client’s internal audit, there is no such concern.

Supplier Auditing

The aerospace industry has the most complex and longest lead time supply chain in the world, complicated by an industry move to pushing much of the design and manufacturing work to suppliers. Companies need to be able to identify and mitigate these risks. The performance of Supplier Auditing is one of the best ways to achieve these goals. Some of the key driving factors for the performance of AS9100 Audits include:

  • Risk Mitigation: COVID caused companies to take a closer look at geographical and sole source arrangements in their supply chain to better understand and prepare for similar disruptions. Quality issues are increasingly originating further down the supply chain as outsourcing grows.
  • Rapid Deployment & Scalability: Our large auditor network allows you flexibility and scale in performing supplier assessments when you need them, with minimal lead time.
  • Expertise: Our auditor network spans across the aerospace industries allowing us to offer auditors with expertise in a variety of industry sectors.
  • Cost Control: Improving the performance of your supply chain means $$$$ savings to you.

Training and Compliance Consulting

Elevate your Aerospace and Defense organization's performance with tailored training and consulting solutions from the ASD Division. Our specialized training programs are designed to enhance operational efficiency, mitigate risks, and educate clients about industry standards like AS9100 and the forthcoming IA9100 standard. Our expert team is well-versed in identifying and addressing gaps in AS9100 compliance, ensuring your organization meets the highest quality standards. These programs are meticulously crafted to equip your team with the knowledge and skills needed to drive continuous improvement and achieve operational excellence. Partner with the ASD Division to unlock your organization's full potential and stay ahead in the competitive Aerospace and Defense industry. Discover how our training and consulting services can empower your team and enhance overall performance.

Our Industry-Leading Process Customized To Your Needs

Over the years we have developed and refined a systematic, phased approach for Aerospace auditing. The goal of this process is to ensure alignment and communication from the start of the audit to the completion of any remediation activites, thereby ensuring we maximize the benefit of the audit. The typical process we follow is shown below and used as the foundation for all audit engagements. The specific steps we follow will be tailored to your needs once we have a more thorough understanding of your goals.

We have found the key to successful partnerships is communication and flexibility throughout the process. The typical process we follow looks like this:

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