Quality
- C-CAT Quality Assurance system
- Certified to AS9100 and ISO 9000
- SAIC, Boeing and LMCO approved supplier
- Developed Product design, planning, and product validation systems.
- Defined inspection input in design phase and production flow
- Certified and calibrated Gauges for all inspections.
- Fabrication Inspection System
- Product build – stages of inspection
- Defined with Engineering and QA
- Flowed down through Production documentation
- In-process inspection equipment – developed
- Quick access NDE for immediate evaluation
- Laser Tracker capabilities for real time measurement and verification of build
- Concurrent Engineering/Production/QA approaches
- Concurrent systems engineering approach and validation techniques
- Fabrication
- Final Inspection system
- AS9102 First Article inspection
- Flight Grade Hardware certification
- HAR and Complete Quality Assurance reviews
- ICD verification and interface qualification
- TRL Levels
- Product has been tested and flown on various programs
C-CAT remains committed to a complete Quality Assurance system. Our goal is to achieve the highest level of quality by committing ourselves to continuous improvement techniques and a commitment to meeting customer requirements. Several elements of quality are utilized to meet the goals.
- C-CAT QMS certified to ISO 9000:2000/AS9100 standards. .
- C-CAT QMS QA efforts include:
- Quality Policy Manual, and Quality Procedures Manuals.\
- Review of all Quality elements at C-CAT
- Tooling Controls including:
- Storage Preservation
- Calibrated Tools
- Internal Audit Functions
- Internal Audit cycle
- Review and Improvements
- Management Review
- Continuous Review process
- Review Customer Audits and Internal Audits
- Process Management
- Issuance of travelers/planning to all components
- Engineering/QA review of all build release documents
- Established Planning and Document Control tracking system
- Centralized Server for Hard-copy Drawings and Model data
