All,
First time poster that couldn't find an answer that was close enough to my company's situation that I decided to post here. I'm also recently assigned to being in this quality role so I apologize if my questions seem basic.
My company is a small engineering consulting company that offers a range of services (typically design, analysis and test) for a variety of customers which include the aviation industry. Up until now we've been small enough that whenever we competed for jobs where the issuing company required an AS9100/ISO 9001 certificate we were able to say that we were not certified but it didn't apply to us because we weren't providing them any products, only services. This had generally worked until recently where a major customer told us that without getting this certificate we would no longer be able to bid on their work.
Management asked me to look into the cost-feasibility of getting certified - but they expressed a desire to start small on the scope of the certification by limiting our scope to a single function, "testing services". Although our company offers multiple functions - they expressed a desire to only be certified for one of them. An example of a testing service would be us performing a vibration test of an assembly to make sure it survives and acquiring data for them to use in their analysis or installing a strain gage sensor.
My question is if this (certifying to a subset of functions provided) is a valid strategy - and/or if this is short sighted. We are just starting the evaluation process - we don't have an auditor or really any kind of formal QMS. Any help on particularly the scope of the AS9100 accreditation , but implicitly also in the scope of the QMS would be very helpful.
First time poster that couldn't find an answer that was close enough to my company's situation that I decided to post here. I'm also recently assigned to being in this quality role so I apologize if my questions seem basic.
My company is a small engineering consulting company that offers a range of services (typically design, analysis and test) for a variety of customers which include the aviation industry. Up until now we've been small enough that whenever we competed for jobs where the issuing company required an AS9100/ISO 9001 certificate we were able to say that we were not certified but it didn't apply to us because we weren't providing them any products, only services. This had generally worked until recently where a major customer told us that without getting this certificate we would no longer be able to bid on their work.
Management asked me to look into the cost-feasibility of getting certified - but they expressed a desire to start small on the scope of the certification by limiting our scope to a single function, "testing services". Although our company offers multiple functions - they expressed a desire to only be certified for one of them. An example of a testing service would be us performing a vibration test of an assembly to make sure it survives and acquiring data for them to use in their analysis or installing a strain gage sensor.
My question is if this (certifying to a subset of functions provided) is a valid strategy - and/or if this is short sighted. We are just starting the evaluation process - we don't have an auditor or really any kind of formal QMS. Any help on particularly the scope of the AS9100 accreditation , but implicitly also in the scope of the QMS would be very helpful.