AS9100D · Design and manufacture
AS9100D is ISO 9001:2015 plus a specific set of aerospace additions. Any quality tool can hold your procedures and your corrective actions. The question worth asking a vendor is what happens at 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3 and 8.5.1 — because a generic tool with "aerospace" in the product name has no reason to have built them.
Clause by clause
Not a capability matrix with everything ticked. One of these is half done, and its card says so.
Risk carried through the work itself rather than a register kept alongside it, with treatments and actions that land in the master action tracker.
As-built configuration recorded against what shipped, so "which revision did we send in March" has an answer that isn't someone's memory.
Safety-critical items with their criticality rationale, and a safety event log that feeds the safety-performance input management review asks for.
Standing approval records for heat treat, welding and NDT with revalidation dates; first article inspections with trigger, result and disposition.
A review record per order against the standard's own requirements, and a change log with an acknowledgment step when the customer moves the spec.
Who stamped it, against what evidence, with the certification package that travels on to your customer.
A suspect part found at receiving raises a nonconformance with root cause and effectiveness verification like any other finding. The proactive half — the standing prevention programme — is roadmap.
Design projects with the standard's own 8.3.2 planning checklist, inputs, reviews and verification, outputs with critical items flagged, and a change log.
The real IAQG 9101 Form 2 process matrix and Form 3 PEAR, with the standard's own effectiveness grid — not a generic internal-audit checklist.
The record an auditor asks for first
FAI is among the most consistently sampled records in a real AS9100 audit, and "how do you handle first articles" is close to the first question a prospect asks. Each record carries the part and configuration, what triggered it, the characteristics verified, the result and the disposition.
A rejected first article isn't hidden — it's the one an auditor will ask to see. Click to enlarge.
9.2 · IAQG 9101
JBird runs internal audits on the actual 9101 methodology: a QMS Process Matrix marking each clause Conforming, Nonconforming, Not Evaluated or Not Applicable per process, and a PEAR per process whose inputs, activities, outputs, interfaces and KPIs come straight from your process map rather than being retyped. Process effectiveness is scored on the standard's own realization-by-results grid.
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On design and development
Whether 8.3 applies to you at all is the first question, and it's yours to answer. If you build to your customer's drawing and take no design responsibility, 8.3 is genuinely excludable from your scope — JBird holds that exclusion with its justification and writes it into your scope statement, so you're not explaining the same thing to every auditor. Plenty of good machine shops are in exactly that position.
If you do design product, it isn't excludable, and JBird covers it — including the continuing-airworthiness confirmation where AS9110C applies. The section below walks one released design project through the clause, sub-clause by sub-clause.
What's still open is smaller and named: the proactive half of counterfeit-part prevention (8.1.4), customer or external-provider property (8.5.3), and control of production changes (8.5.6). Ask us where any of them stands and we'll tell you straight. The product page draws the line exactly →
8.3 · One released design project, top to bottom
A design-and-build shop is a different organization from a machine shop that works to print, and its process map says so — Design & Development is a process of its own, because there are engineers doing it full time. Below is one released project in JBird: a flight-control bracket redesigned for a higher load case, shown the way clause 8.3 is written.
Not shown, because it is a wide table rather than a card: 8.3.6 change control — each post-release change with its re-review result, who authorized it, the actions taken to prevent adverse impact, and whether the customer had to be notified and when.
Getting started
Pick the AS9100D manufacturer archetype and JBird seeds a starter map built the way a shop of your size actually runs — including the judgment that purchasing is an activity inside Operations rather than a process of its own, because most shops don't employ a purchasing manager. Then you edit it into yours.
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Pilot program
Twenty-eight modules are already built and working. Pilot organizations get the system at no cost during development, direct input on what gets built next, and a migration path when the IA9100 revision lands.