AS9100 Aerospace Quality & First-Article Inspection

AS9100 quality management and AS9102 first-article inspection, NADCAP special processes, aerospace materials and ITAR interaction, and prime digital-thread expectations.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 3-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Advanced
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

Also Available

  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

Aerospace suppliers live under AS9100 quality management and AS9102 first-article inspection — the quality regime the aero playbook assumes but your catalog never taught. Grounded in the aerospace/defense material in the ETS knowledge base, this seminar teaches AS9100 requirements and the FAI/AS9102 process, NADCAP and special processes, aerospace materials/ITAR interaction, and the supplier-quality and escape-management discipline that primes and auditors require. It fills the gap between ETS's general ISO/compliance courses and the aerospace market's specific quality language.

Ideal Learner

  • Quality managers and engineers at aerospace and defense suppliers
  • Manufacturing and inspection engineers running FAI
  • Compliance and audit-response professionals
  • Suppliers entering the aerospace/defense supply base
  • Engineering managers meeting prime digital-thread and quality expectations

Learning Objectives

  • Interpret and implement AS9100 quality-management requirements
  • Execute AS9102 first-article inspection correctly and completely
  • Manage NADCAP and special-process requirements
  • Relate aerospace quality to materials, ITAR, and digital-thread obligations
  • Prepare for and survive prime and aerospace audits

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • The aerospace quality-management model
  • AS9100 vs. ISO 9001: what's added
  • Risk, configuration, and product-safety emphasis
  • Documented QMS, we-did vs. we-do
  • Configuration management and traceability
  • Continual improvement and corrective action
  • The FAI process and when it is required
  • Forms 1/2/3 and characteristic accounting
  • FAI for every configuration and change
  • Special processes (NDT, heat treat, chem) and their control
  • NADCAP accreditation and audit
  • Sourcing and managing special-process suppliers
  • Aerospace materials control and traceability
  • ITAR/EAR classification interaction with quality
  • Counterfeit-part avoidance
  • What primes require of sub-tier suppliers
  • Digital-thread and data obligations (DoDI 5000.97)
  • Supplier-performance and escape management
  • Attendees execute an AS9102 FAI on a representative part
  • Prepare an audit-response posture
  • Present the aerospace quality case

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