AS9100 Quality Management (manufacturing-quality/as9100/quality)
Use when the task is aerospace quality management per AS9100: clause scoping, audit evidence, and corrective-action closure for the aviation, space, and defense QMS.
Domain quick reference
- AS9100 builds on ISO 9001:2015 and adds aerospace clauses: operational risk, configuration management, product safety, counterfeit prevention, external providers, and special processes.
- Audits demonstrate the QMS against the clauses with evidence artifacts; the evidence set is confirmed with the auditor's plan.
- A corrective action closes a nonconformance only when the record carries containment, root cause, and corrective action.
- Counterfeit prevention (8.1.4) and product safety (8.1.3) are the aerospace-specific focus areas auditors probe first.
Workflow
- Scope the audit or QMS improvement area.
- Map the focus to the aerospace clause.
- Assemble the minimum evidence artifacts for that clause.
- Track nonconformances; close records only when containment, root cause, and corrective action are recorded.
- Confirm the evidence set and closure criteria with the QMS documentation and the auditor's plan.
Pitfalls
- Evidence without a clause mapping (no audit linkage).
- Closing a nonconformance with corrective action but no root cause.
- Counterfeit prevention reduced to a policy statement with no supplier declarations or quarantine records.
- Assuming AS9100 clauses without the ISO 9001:2015 base.
Behavior contract (gate 3)
The clause-scoping, evidence, and corrective-action logic is exercised by the gate 3 contract test: scripts/test_quality.py against scripts/quality_logic.py (stdlib unittest, offline). Run: python3 scripts/test_quality.py
Compliance
- Standards referenced, not reproduced: AS9100 text is proprietary (IAQG/SAE); summary-only per standards-map.yaml and brief 06.
- compliance: STANDARDS-REF, gated: false.