Experience

Peat Aerospace Quality Consulting brings decades of aerospace manufacturing, supplier quality, and quality management experience to every assignment. This background combines hands-on aerospace industry experience with internal, supplier, and third-party certification auditing, providing a practical understanding of how quality management systems operate in real manufacturing environments.

Aerospace Quality & Auditing Experience

Experience includes more than 200 supplier audits throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, along with extensive involvement in AS9100 and ISO 9001 quality management systems. Auditing experience spans manufacturing operations, quality systems, supplier controls, special processes, corrective action, production controls, and organizational effectiveness.

  • 200+ supplier audits in the United States, Europe, and Asia
  • AS9100 and ISO 9001 quality management system auditing
  • Internal and supplier quality audits
  • Third-party certification auditing experience
  • Process-based and risk-based auditing
  • Nonconformance identification and corrective action follow-up
  • Audit preparation and certification readiness assessments

Aerospace Industry Background

Aerospace quality experience includes leadership and supplier quality responsibilities with aerospace manufacturers including General Atomics, Triumph Fabrications San Diego, GKN Aerospace and Paker Hannifin. This background provides firsthand understanding of the quality, regulatory, customer, and operational challenges faced by aerospace manufacturers and their suppliers.

  • Aerospace quality management and leadership
  • Supplier quality assurance
  • Multi-site quality management systems
  • Manufacturing and production process oversight
  • Supplier development and performance improvement
  • Customer and regulatory quality requirements
  • Corrective action and root cause analysis

Special Process & Supplier Oversight

Supplier assessments have included aerospace manufacturing operations and special processes where effective process control, qualified personnel, approved suppliers, and objective evidence are critical to product conformity and safety.

  • Nondestructive Testing (NDT)
  • Heat Treatment
  • Chemical Processing
  • Composites
  • Special process supplier controls
  • Supplier qualification and surveillance
  • Process effectiveness and risk evaluation

Practical, Process-Based Approach

Audits are approached from both a compliance and effectiveness perspective. Rather than simply working through a checklist, the objective is to follow processes, examine objective evidence, identify risk, and determine whether the quality management system is producing its intended results.

This approach helps organizations identify meaningful issues while also recognizing effective practices and opportunities to strengthen their quality management system.

Experience You Can Put to Work

Whether the need is an independent internal audit, supplier assessment, certification readiness review, corrective action evaluation, or broader quality management support, Peat Aerospace Quality Consulting provides experienced, independent support tailored to the organization and assignment.

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