A fictional aerospace manufacturing program: Acme Aerostructures, a Tier 1 supplier, building composite trailing-edge wing panels for Meridian Aircraft Co.'s Meridian M7 narrowbody under an 18-month fixed-price production contract. Built to demonstrate aerospace manufacturing PM disciplines — AS9100 quality management, First Article Inspection (AS9102), and Material Review Board nonconformance control — alongside the PM, Agile, and Federal suites elsewhere in this portfolio.
Suite fully built: all 20 planned artifacts are live below, each with a matching native Word/Excel download.
Program Foundations
Program Charter
Scope, success criteria, budget, and governance for the CWP-700 Composite Wing Panel Production Program.
Program Governance
RACI, review cadence, part traceability, and escalation path.
RACI Matrix
Full RACI covering program, quality, tooling, MRB, and supplier-quality decisions.
Communications Plan
Internal and customer-facing communication cadence, including mandatory nonconformance notification.
Program Org Chart
Reporting structure across program, quality, and phase-specific roles, plus the customer source-inspection relationship.
Work Breakdown Structure
Full Gantt-parity schedule — 23 tasks with real dates, durations, and dependencies, assigned to all 14 program roles.
AS9100 Quality System
This is where the suite earns its keep — the aerospace-specific quality discipline with no equivalent in the PM/Agile/Federal suites.
AS9100 Quality Management System
How the AS9100 QMS governs this program and maps to specific program artifacts.
First Article Inspection (AS9102)
Full FAI checklist and results, including the nonconformance dispositioned through MRB.
Material Review Board
MRB composition, disposition process, and the full nonconformance log.
Planning & Financials
Program Resource Plan
Named delivery roster with FTE%, blended rates, reconciled to the Program Budget.
Program Budget
Labor, tooling/NRE, materials, travel, and management reserve — $2,500,000 total.
Program Cost-Benefit Analysis
The quality-investment case, weighed against the cost of a prevented field escape.
Program Total Cost of Ownership
3-year cost scenario including the steady-state production option.
Governance & Risk
RAIDD Log
Risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and dependencies, tracing forward to Lessons Learned.
Reporting & Closeout
Program Status Report
Weekly status snapshot: schedule, budget, and quality health during production ramp.
Program Closeout Report
Final performance vs. charter, budget reconciliation, and handoff to steady-state production.
Lessons Learned Register
10 entries, each traced to a specific risk, issue, or MRB nonconformance.
Program Dashboard
At-a-glance RAG status, budget, and MRB disposition breakdown.
Steering Committee Deck
Leadership briefing summarizing program health, quality performance, and financials.
Reference
Aerospace Glossary
AS9100, FAI, MRB, PPAP, NDT and other terms used across this suite.
Methodology Guide
How AS9100/FAI/MRB governs an aerospace production program, illustrated with this program's real numbers.
Common Aerospace Quality Questions
What is AS9100?
AS9100 is the aerospace industry's quality management system standard — ISO 9001 plus aviation, space, and defense-specific requirements including first article inspection, special-process controls, and full lot-level traceability.
What is a First Article Inspection (FAI)?
A First Article Inspection is the mandatory full dimensional, material, and process verification of the first production unit of a part, performed against AS9102, before volume production is authorized.
What is a Material Review Board (MRB)?
A Material Review Board is the formal, cross-functional process that dispositions any nonconforming part or lot as use-as-is, rework, scrap, or return-to-supplier — never decided by one person alone.
What is PPAP?
The Production Part Approval Process is a supplier-quality qualification process, borrowed from automotive and widely used in aerospace supply chains, confirming a supplier can reliably produce a part to specification.
How is this different from the Federal suite's ATO/Section 508 compliance?
Both are domain-specific compliance layers sitting on the same PM skeleton — ATO/Section 508 govern federal IT security and accessibility, while AS9100/FAI/MRB govern aerospace manufacturing quality. Neither has an equivalent in the other domain.
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