ISO 9001:2015 · Supplying aerospace without an AS9100 certificate

You supply aerospace primes. You don't carry an AS9100 certificate. JBird still fits.

A lot of the aerospace supply chain runs through shops that were never required to certify to AS9100, AS9120 or AS9110 themselves — they just have to prove, on their own ISO 9001 system, that a handful of things their customer's purchase order asks for are actually under control. JBird is built ISO 9001 first, with the aerospace-specific controls available the moment a PO calls for them — not built as if you were the AS9100 shop down the street.

Clause by clause

What ISO 9001:2015 asks for, and where JBird actually stands.

Not a capability matrix with everything ticked. Built system-level first, and closed in the order an internal audit actually samples it.

7.5 · built

Documented information

Your manual, procedures and records under revision control — not a shared drive folder that three people edit three different ways.

10.2 · built

Corrective action

A nonconformance record with root cause and effectiveness verification, the same way for every finding, not a checkbox that closes on its own.

9.2 · built

Internal audit

A structured internal audit program built against your own process map, not a generic checklist bought off the shelf and bent to fit.

9.3 · built

Management review

Inputs pulled from the system itself — audit results, corrective actions, customer feedback — rather than assembled by hand the week before.

6.1 · built

Gap analysis

Every clause assessed against what's actually in place, filtered to the standards you've ticked — ISO 9001 alone shows only ISO 9001's own clauses.

9.1.3 · 10.3 · built

Analysis, evaluation & improvement

Customer satisfaction and performance data that actually feeds the management review, not a spreadsheet nobody opens again after the audit.

Where the bridge segment actually lives

You don't need the whole standard to prove the one thing your customer's quality clause asks for.

Primes flow down aerospace-grade expectations to suppliers who were never required to hold the certificate themselves — risk carried through the work, counterfeit-parts awareness, evidence that a special process was actually approved. JBird doesn't force your whole system aerospace to get there: tick AS9100D, AS9120B or AS9110C only for the modules you need, and the rest of your system stays exactly ISO 9001.

8.1.1 · built

Operational risk management

Risk carried through the work itself, with treatments and actions that land in the master action tracker — not a register kept alongside the work rather than in it.

8.1.4 · built

Counterfeit-parts prevention

A suspect part found at receiving raises a nonconformance like any other finding, and the standing prevention side sits on the supplier register: an authorized/original-source flag and obsolescence monitoring per provider.

8.5.1.2 – 8.5.1.4 · built

Special process approval & FAI

Standing approval records for heat treat, welding and NDT with revalidation dates, and first article inspections that print AS9102 Forms 1, 2 and 3 when a prime asks for one.

Worth saying plainly

Ticking a standard only adds its modules to your menu and its clauses to your gap analysis. It doesn't rewrite your scope statement behind your back, and nothing about it claims a certification you don't hold — it just means the record your customer's PO asked for has somewhere to live.

Scope, not a fixed list

Graded only against what you've actually ticked.

The gap analysis is the same table whether you're ISO 9001 only or carrying all three aerospace standards — it just shows fewer rows. Add a standard later and the missing rows appear; nothing about your existing evidence moves.

JBird's clause-by-clause gap analysis table showing clause number, applicable standards, status, owner, documents and linked processes.JBird's clause-by-clause gap analysis table showing clause number, applicable standards, status, owner, documents and linked processes.

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Video · 0:48A narrated walkthrough of this screen: The clause-by-clause gap analysis.
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This is JBird's gap analysis. Every clause, the standards it applies to, its status, its owner, the documents behind it, and the processes it is linked to. Filter to your own standards, or see all clauses. The counter shows how many are complete: 56 of 66, 85%. Each clause shows which standards it applies to, whether it is complete or not started, and who owns it. Beside it, the controlled documents that satisfy the clause, at their current revision, and the process each clause is linked to. Where there is no document, or no owner, it says so. A gap you can find. Every clause, owned and evidenced. JBird QMS.

Getting started

Tick ISO 9001 and you already have a working system, not an empty one.

A template pack writes the five documents every quality system needs — scope statement, internal audit, management review, NCR/CAPA and document control — scoped to exactly what you've ticked. Add AS9100D, AS9120B or AS9110C later and it fills in only what's missing; it will never overwrite something you've already edited.

JBird's Load Template Pack panel, with a table of the five starter documents each marked will be created.JBird's Load Template Pack panel, with a table of the five starter documents each marked will be created.

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Video · 0:53A narrated walkthrough of this screen: Loading a template pack.
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This is JBird's Load Template Pack panel. One click sets the standards that apply to your organization, and seeds its starter documents. The pack covers the QMS scope statement, the internal audit, management review, NCR and CAPA, document control, and purchasing procedures, each pre-written for the standards you check. You choose which standards apply. ISO 9001 always does. If none of the aerospace standards apply to you, ISO 9001 alone is a complete answer. Each starter document shows its status. And it is safe to run again: it only fills in documents that do not exist yet, and never touches one you have already created or edited. Start from pre-written documents. JBird QMS.

Pilot program

We're looking for a handful of shops to build this with.

46 modules are already built and working. Pilot organizations get the system at no cost during development, direct input on what gets built next — there is a Report a Problem button on every screen, and it goes to a register we work through — and a migration path when the IA9100 revision lands.

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