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Discover exactly where your quality management system stands today and what you need to achieve certification. Our proprietary gap analysis tool helps you:
  • Identify your current compliance level against all ISO 9001 or AS9100 requirements
  • Prioritize the most critical gaps to address first
  • Estimate time and resources needed for certification
  • Create a customized roadmap to certification
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Benefits of AS9100 Certification

How AS9100 certification can transform your aerospace organization.

Aerospace Market Access

Meet supplier requirements for major aerospace manufacturers and gain access to new business opportunities in the aerospace supply chain.

Enhanced Product Safety

Implement robust processes for product safety management, reducing risks and ensuring the highest standards of safety in your products.

Counterfeit Part Prevention

Establish effective controls to prevent the use of counterfeit or suspect unapproved parts in your products and supply chain.

Operational Excellence

Improve process efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance productivity through systematic process management and continuous improvement.

Configuration Management

Implement effective configuration management practices to ensure product consistency and traceability throughout the product lifecycle.

Risk Management

Identify and address operational, product, and supply chain risks systematically, reducing the likelihood of quality issues and delivery disruptions.

Key Differences Between AS9100 and ISO9001

Understanding the aerospace-specific requirements that extend beyond ISO9001.

Product Safety (8.1.3)

  • Understand your organization's context, including aerospace industry factors
  • Identify interested parties and their requirements, including regulatory authorities
  • Determine the scope of your quality management system
  • Establish, implement, maintain, and continually improve your QMS

Leadership (Clause 5)

  • Demonstrate leadership commitment to the QMS
  • Establish and communicate a quality policy
  • Define organizational roles, responsibilities, and authorities
  • Ensure customer focus throughout the organization
  • Promote ethical behavior and product safety

Planning (Clause 6)

  • Address risks and opportunities with enhanced aerospace requirements
  • Establish quality objectives and plans to achieve them
  • Plan for changes to the quality management system
  • Consider operational risks in planning

Support (Clause 7)

  • Provide necessary resources for the QMS
  • Ensure competent personnel with appropriate qualifications
  • Promote awareness of the QMS, including product safety
  • Establish effective communication
  • Create and control documented information with enhanced requirements

Operation (Clause 8)

  • Plan, implement, and control operational processes with risk management
  • Implement configuration management
  • Ensure product safety
  • Prevent counterfeit parts
  • Determine and review requirements for products and services
  • Design and develop products and services with enhanced controls
  • Control externally provided processes, products, and services
  • Control production and service provision with special process validation
  • Identify and control critical items and key characteristics
  • Implement FOD prevention program
  • Release products and services with enhanced verification
  • Control nonconforming outputs with enhanced disposition requirements

Performance Evaluation (Clause 9)

  • Monitor, measure, analyze, and evaluate performance
  • Conduct internal audits with enhanced requirements
  • Perform management reviews with additional inputs and outputs

Improvement (Clause 10)

  • Determine and select opportunities for improvement
  • Address nonconformities and take corrective actions with enhanced requirements
  • Continually improve the QMS

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about contacting and working with Falcon Quality.

To help us provide the most relevant assistance, please include your company name, industry, the certification standard you’re interested in (ISO9001, AS9100, ISO13485, etc.), your current quality management maturity, and any specific questions or challenges you’re facing. The more details you provide, the better we can tailor our response to your needs.
We typically respond to all inquiries within 1 business day. For complex requests or detailed quote requests, we may need additional time to prepare a comprehensive response, but we’ll always acknowledge receipt of your message promptly and provide an estimated timeframe for our full response.
Yes, we offer both remote and on-site consulting services. While we’re based in the Bay Area, we serve clients throughout the United States and internationally through our remote consulting options. Our virtual implementation approach has proven highly effective for many clients, particularly for organizations with multiple locations or those in regions where local expertise is limited.
You can request a quote by filling out the contact form on this page (select “Quote Request” from the subject dropdown), by emailing info@falconquality.com, or by scheduling a free consultation through our booking page. For the most accurate quote, please provide details about your organization size, industry, desired certification standard, current quality management maturity, and specific services needed.
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