• The AS9145 standard defines APQP and PPAP requirements for the aviation, space, and defense industries. It was released in 2016 by IAQG and is largely based on similar requirements used in the automotive industries.

• The standard is not a certification standard (it is not possible to obtain a certificate against this standard), but this standard is mandatory when defined in the contract by the customer, and indeed in recent years many customers such as Lockheed Martin, Harris, L-3, Rockwell Collins, AIRBUS, Boeing have incorporated the requirement to implement the standard within the quality requirements of the contract.

• AS9145 was created to address Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Product Approval Process (PPAP) in the aerospace and defense industries. The standard defines a methodology that ensures that the product development and process development process in the industry is carried out in a controlled manner from the concept stage to full serial production.

• The standard defines 5 gates in the product planning and implementation processes. For each gate, the standard defines the required tasks, activities, and outputs.

• The set of documents produced as part of the process are submitted to the customer as part of the process approval (PPAP).

• The standard includes reference to a number of tools required to ensure process capability and success, including: PFD, PFMEA, DFMEA, CONTROL PLAN, MSA, FAI

• The gates/stages in the implementation of the process begin from the concept stage and throughout all stages of the product life cycle:

  • Phase 1 - Planning: The purpose of this phase is to "capture" customer requirements, accepted industry information, lessons learned from other projects, regulatory requirements, technical requirements, and additional requirements needed to prepare a plan to implement the requirements.

  • Phase 2 - Product Design: The purpose of this phase is to translate the identified requirements into a controlled design process. Design validation will be performed using models or production items that simulate the intended use of the product.

  • Step 3 - Process Design: The goal of this step is to plan the production process intended to produce the product consistently, with the appropriate quality, according to the production rate required by the customer.

  • Stage 4 - Validation of the process and product - At this stage, validation is also performed for the product's ability to meet customer requirements and the production's ability to meet design requirements in terms of quality, availability, and schedule.

  • Stage 5 - Serial Production and Service: The goal of this stage is to ensure that customer requirements are continuously achieved through the use of process controls and continuous improvement.

• Advance product maturity

• Reducing total costs throughout the product life cycle

• Risk reduction

• Basis for the success of a product implementation or work transfer project

Our service includes:

• Implementing the APQP process according to the standard stages: planning, development, validation, release and monitoring.

• Professional training for quality, engineering and project teams.

• Building a quality management infrastructure that includes PFMEA, process control, test plans, and control plans.

• Assistance in preparing PPAP reports and meeting customer requirements.

• Integrating AS9145 into the organization's AQMS system, including compliance with AS9100 and AS9102.