MS Aerospace Quality

Certifications: AS9100, ISO 17025

Quality Mission Statement

• Customer Focus: As a customer-focused organization, we must understand our customer's current and future needs and we must meet these needs while striving to exceed our customers' expectations. 
   
• Leadership: We must establish a unity of purpose, direction and stable environment in order that our employees can become fully involved in achieving our company's objectives.
   
• Involvement of People: We must ensure that our employees are fully involved and informed in order to enable them to use their abilities for the maximum benefit of the company.  
   
• Process Approach: We must ensure that all related resources and activities are managed as a process in order to efficiently achieve the desired result. 
   
• System Approach to Management: We must identify, understand and manage the interrelated processes of our Quality Management System to achieve defined objectives while contributing to the effectiveness and efficiency of our company
   
• Continual Improvement: We must ensure that continual improvement is a permanent objective of MS Aerospace. 
   
• Factual Approach to Decision-Making: We must ensure that all decisions are effective and are based on the logical or intuitive analysis of data and information.
   
• Mutually Beneficial Supplier Relationship: We must enhance our ability to create value by fostering mutually beneficial relationships with our suppliers. 
   
• MS Aerospace's Quality Policy: It is MS Aerospace's Quality Policy to provide our customers with competitively priced products that comply with all applicable requirements while meeting or exceeding the customers’ needs and expectations for performance, reliability and safety over the long term.

In support of this policy, we are committed to continually improving the effectiveness and efficiency of our processes and of our Quality Management System and to ensure an adequate framework for the establishment and review of the Quality Objectives.

As of May 1, 2010 MS Aerospace has released a new revision of its quality management system (QMS) Manual. If you would like to review the MS Aerospace QMS manual Click Here.

Supplier Quality Assurance Requirements

Scope
This document establishes requirements for MS Aerospace, Inc. (MSA) Approved Supplier Quality Management System.  The requirements herein pertain to tasks necessary to substantiate production and process conformance to drawings, specifications, contract and purchase order requirements.  Requirements herein are in addition to those tasks set forth in any other contractual document.

Applicable Documents
The supplier is responsible to furnish articles that meet all requirements of the contract, purchase order and/or relevant drawings and specifications.  The following documents of the latest revision, unless modified by the contract or purchase order, form a part of this specification to the extent specified herein.

AS9100	Quality management systems – Aerospace
ISO IEC 17025	General Requirements for Competence and Testing and Calibration Laboratories

REQUIREMENTS
Supplier Responsibility
The supplier shall establish and maintain a Quality Management System that complies with the requirements of the latest revision of AS9100.

Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing:  (Class I Supplier) - This category involves suppliers who provide destructive testing services, such as: tensile test, stress rupture test, micro-evaluation, and non-destructive services such as: ultrasonic inspection, fluorescent penetrant inspection, and magnetic particle inspection.  Class I suppliers are required to have a quality system accredited to the requirements of the applicable Nadcap commodity.

Calibration Services:  (Class II Supplier) - This category involves suppliers who perform calibration of measuring, monitoring and testing equipment for MSA. Calibration labs that calibrate equipment which supports the Materials Testing Laboratory’s monitoring and/or measuring functions must meet the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025 and demonstrate competence for the work in question. Calibration service providers calibrating equipment for non-materials laboratory usage shall be in compliance with ANSI/NCSL Z540-3, or equivalent, or otherwise be qualified and competent to a recognized calibration standard.  All calibration laboratories shall maintain a system traceable to national or international recognized standards.  A Certificate of Calibration must be included with each instrument calibrated.

Surface Treatment, Plating, and Coating:  (Class III Supplier) - This category involves suppliers who provide painting, coating, anodizing, plating, etc. Class III suppliers shall be required to have a quality system which meets the requirements of AS9100, Nadcap, or equivalent for special processes.

Thermal Treatment:  (Class IV Supplier) - This category involves suppliers performing thermal treatment, such as: solution treatment, aging, normalizing, and hardening, to obtain specified mechanical properties of the product.  Class IV suppliers are required to have a quality system accredited to the requirements of the applicable Nadcap commodity.

Manufacturing:  (Class V Supplier) - This category involves suppliers who provide manufacturing services, such as: grinding, drilling, milling, thread rolling, etc.  Class V suppliers are selected and evaluated based on their ability to supply product in accordance with MSA requirements.

Raw Material Suppliers: (Class VI Supplier) - This category involves suppliers who provide raw material to MSA for the fabrication of product.  Class VI suppliers are required to have a Quality Management System which complies with the requirements of AS9100. Suppliers of raw material must provide an original mill certification and a supplier issued certification that directly links to the MS Aerospace purchase order, applicable mill source and heat.

Customer End Use:  Category I, III, IV, V suppliers take note, within the body of purchase orders issued there may be customer end-use noted; at which time the following additional specifications are imposed.
End Use: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft (PWA), Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC), Sikorsky Aircraft, Hamilton Sundstrand (HS) and/or purchases for UTC: ASQR-01 forms a part of the applicable purchase order (PO) requirements.
End Use: GE Aircraft (GEAE): S-1000 and Std. Remark C64 applies.
End Use: Rolls Royce: SABRE program requirements apply.
End Use: Honeywell Aerospace: Supplemental Purchase Order Conditions Manual and SPOC 002 applies. When E1010 is PO imposed suppliers must conform to E1010 requirements. Note: E1010 applies to Flight Safety Parts (FSP) and involves critical characteristics. Frozen process controls and extended record retention time period requirements are imposed as part of this specification.

Customer Approved Sources:  This category involves suppliers who are identified as approved by MSA customers.  Customer approved suppliers shall not be subject to regularly scheduled audits by MSA.  Receiving inspection shall be used to establish conformance to contract requirements.  Customer approved suppliers are required to verify their current customer approval status prior to acceptance of the Purchase Order.

Process Controls
Suppliers must perform the applicable process at the facility identified ion the MSA purchase order. MSA product may not be transferred outside the organization’s facility without advanced written consent from MS Aerospace. Where applicable, suppliers shall flow-down to sub-tier suppliers, the applicable requirements in the MS Aerospace purchasing documents, including key characteristics, where required.The use of non-conventional methods for the machining of products is prohibited unless expressly consented to in writing by MS Aerospace, or by approved customer drawings or specific expressed specification(s). Exception: Suppliers contracted to manufacture tooling are permitted to use non-conventional methods as necessary.

Part Counts, Accuracy and Accountability:  MSA expects that our suppliers have in place a means to identify and account for material at the time of receipt and throughout processing. MSA requires that any dispute in count be brought to our attention at time of delivery receipt, prior to processing and in a written format.

Right of Access
MS Aerospace and its customers, including the FAA and any other regulatory authorities, shall reserve the right to conduct inspection and/or surveillance of the supplier system, procedures, and products in all facilities involved in the order processing.  MS Aerospace and its customers, including the FAA and any other regulatory authorities, have the right to inspect any or all of the work included in this order at the supplier’s facility.

Certifications
Certificates of Compliance (C of C’s) are required. C of C’s shall clearly attest that the product complies with drawings and/or specifications imposed by the purchase order/ contract, and shall reference any/all applicable requirements of the specifications. The C of C shall be attached to the packing slip, and must accompany each shipment.

Chemical and/or Physical Test Reports/First Article/Dimensional Data Sheet
When required by the applicable specification, each shipment shall be accompanied by legible and reproducible copies of all chemical and/or physical test reports. When required by the purchase order or applicable specification, a First Article Inspection Report or Dimensional Data Sheet identifiable with the supplies furnished shall accompany each shipment.

Preparation for Shipment
The Supplier shall ensure all product shipped is protected, preserved and packaged in accordance with best commercial practice  to preclude any damage such as (but not limited to) nicks, dings, scratches, dents, etc.

Age Control & Life Limited Products
Age control & life limited products shall be identified with the date of manufacture, test time or cycle at which useful life will be expended.  Products supplied to MS Aerospace shall have a minimum of 75% of its life expectancy remaining.

Certifications
To view all certificates we currently have Click Here.

AS9100 – standardizes quality management system requirements for the aerospace industry. The establishment of common requirements results in improved quality and reduced costs. For a printable copy Click Here.

ISO/IEC 17025 – standardizes all the requirements that testing and calibration laboratories are required to comply to in order to demonstrate that a management system is in place, technical competence, and the ability to generate technically valid results. For a printable copy Click Here.

Nadcap – provides international, unbiased, independent manufacturing process and product assessments and certification services for the purpose of adding value, reducing total cost, and facilitating relationships between primes and suppliers. For a printable copy of one of our Nadcap Certifications: Nadcap Chemical Processing, Nadcap Heat Treat, Nadcap Material Testing, Nadcap NonDestructive Testing.

All customers are directed to the Online QML (Qualified Manufacturer Listing) at www.eauditnet.com for pertinent accreditation dates and information. Registration is free & you do not have to be a Nadcap subscriber. We are listed as: M.S. Aerospace.