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  • MS Aerospace Quality

    Quality Mission Statement

    These our the MSAerospace Mission qualites:

    • 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.

    Supplier Quality Assurance Requrements (REF MSAW 7.4.4 APPENDIX I)

    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 or exceed all requirements of the contract, purchase order and/or relevant specification(s).  The following documents of the exact issue shown, unless modified by the contract or purchase order, form a part of this specification to the extent specified herein.

    MIL-Q-9858

    Quality Program Requirements

    MIL-STD-45662A

    Calibration System Requirements

    MIL-I-45208

    Inspection System Requirements (for general guidelines only)

    ANSI/NCSL Z540-1

    General Requirements for Calibration Laboratories and Measuring and Test Equipment

    ISO 9001

    Quality management systems – requirements

    AS9100

    Quality management systems – Aerospace – requirements based on ISO 9001:2000

    PRI / Nadcap

    National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program

    ISO IEC 17025

    General Requirements for Competence and Testing and Calibration Laboratories

    REQUIREMENTS

    Supplier Responsibility
    The supplier shall establish and maintain a Quality System that meets or exceeds the requirements of:  ISO 9001 / AS9100. Note:  (MIL-STD-45208, MIL-Q-9858 may be accepted, under certain circumstances).  Quality System approval by an RAB Accredited Third Party Auditing Source is required.  Special Process and material test facilities shall be PRI / Nadcap/ISO IEC 17025 accredited, accordingly.

    TestNon-Conformance and Corrective Action
    Supplier response to an NCR or SCAR shall be completed within (30) working days, unless otherwise specified.  

    Process Controls
    Suppliers shall flow-down to sub-tier suppliers, the applicable requirements in the purchasing documents, including key characteristics, where required.

    Right of Access - Source Surveillance
    MS Aerospace and their 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.  The government has 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 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.