What's an AS9100 and why should you (and Boeing) care?
It’s been all over the news recently. Boeing cannot find the report for who was responsible for screwing the bolts into the door on that Alaska Airlines flight that lost said door earlier this year. They have erased the video footage of the plant. They “have no record” of the work.
I’m sorry. What?
In the aerospace industry, there is an industry standard that every manufacturer must meet. The AS9100. It tells the complete historical record of your product. For an airplane, it would tell you every single part that’s on that unique build, down to the serial numbers of every individual piece. It tells you who did the work and when. If you have a system to do this (does Boeing really NOT have a system? Please call us so we can help you.), you can then track all the other work that person did on a day or a step that was not done well.