Aerospace

Aerospace

Improving business performance and resilience for organizations in aviation, space, and defence

Improving business performance and resilience for organizations in aviation, space, and defence
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Improving performance, resilience and safety throughout the aerospace supply chain

The aerospace industry demands quality at every stage - and is underpinned by stringent requirements for safety and reliability. From assessment, certification and training to software solutions, advisory services and supply chain intelligence, BSI provides the full solution to facilitate business improvement and help aerospace clients drive performance, manage risk and grow sustainably.

BSI has the expertise and global coverage to train and certify to the AS 9100 series of quality standards, and can help you improve environmental and health and safety performance with ISO 14001, the world’s leading environmental management system, and ISO 45001, the international standard for occupational health and safety. Additionally BSI can help you minimize the impact of disruptive incidents with ISO 22301 Business continuity management and steer you through the complexities of ongoing digitalization, helping you to protect commercially sensitive information and safeguard against cyber-attacks with ISO/IEC 27001 Information security management.

Today, BSI leads the way in exploring best practice for smart cities, the Internet of things, unmanned aircraft vehicles, and digital manufacturing - enabling aerospace organizations to be better equipped when facing the challenges of tomorrow.

Securing successful aerospace futures through sustainability

Sustainability focuses both on what organizations do and how they operate; from operational processes, ethical supply chains, and procurement, to the wellbeing of employees, corporate social responsibility and beyond. Find out more about how aerospace organizations can meet their sustainability goals.

For a more indepth look at how important a well rounded approach is watch the full 5 minute version of the video.

Securing successful aerospace futures through sustainability: Full video
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Standards, testing, certification and training

  • Aerospace standards and compliance at a glance

With over 3,000 standards and a range of aerospace solutions it can be overwhelming to know where to start. To help you navigate your way, BSI has developed an aerospace standards and solutions matrix. Standards have long been setting the bar for excellence in the aerospace industry from quality management in the supply chain, to health and safety, environmental management, information and cybersecurity, emissions verification, and infrastructure and facilities management.

  • Access and buy aerospace standards 

You can access our extensive portfolio of British, European and International (ISO) standards through the BSI shop or through our online subscription portal BSOL. Whether you need a single standard, access to a collection of standards or want to benefit from the value of full membership our vast library of standards can help you turn excellence into a habit and take your business to the next level.

  • Testing, auditing and certification services for the aerospace sector

Test, audit and certify to leading aerospace standards such as AS/EN 9100 series (Aviation, Space and Defence Quality Management), ISO 9001 (Quality Management) as well as ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) and ISO 270001 (Information Security Management) to mitigate the risks of failure in the supply chain, increase customer trust, gain access to global markets and make your organization more resilient.

  • Aerospace Supply Chain Management and Services 

Our suite of aerospace supply chain management (SCM) services and software provide an end-to-end solution for managing quality, mitigating risk, enhancing productivity and promoting safety. Audit a supplier, manage supplier compliance, mitigate supply chain risk, or access our audit-approved supplier database. 

  • Training for the aerospace sector

Turn our expertise into your experience with BSI training courses to help you understand, implement and audit standards, including AS/EN 9100 series (Aviation, Space and Defence Quality Management), ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety) and many more. Our academy experts provide in-house training, along with online and classroom courses throughout the UK and across the globe.

  • Mobility

Driven by a convergence of social trends and technological advances, a transport revolution is underway, changing not only how we get around, but also the way we access transport. BSI has a strong track record in transportation, dating back to 1901. Today, BSI is a global provider of standards and services to the aerospace and automotive sectors and UK market leader in AS/EN 9100 series (Aerospace Quality Management standard) certification. And BSI is working closely with Government and industry panels too to shape future standards in some of the most emerging mobility technologies, such as UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) or drones.

Aerospace on-demand webinars

To help you keep as up to date as possible on industry changes and thought leadership for the the Aerospace sector we have a number of on-demand webinars that will help you with subjects round counterfeit parts, cybersecurity, returning after Covid and how you can have an impact on your people's wellbeing.  

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Aerospace standards with British Standards Online (BSOL)

BSOL is an online tool that acts as your business improvement partner, giving you instant access to over 5,000 aerospace-specific standards. In your safety-critical industry, it ensures you’re meeting quality standards and are always up to date so you can follow compliance processes. Our standards are built with leading industry knowledge and are trusted and used by businesses globally.

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Throughout the aerospace supply chain BSI helps companies to improve and become more resilient. In this video BSI client Darchem Engineering discusses how working with BSI helps them to do this. From knowledge solutions and standards to assurance and professional services BSI works with businesses of all sizes and equips them with the tools, information and services they need to turn today’s challenge into tomorrow’s success. 

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Why BSI?

  • Aerospace experts: we have a rich aerospace heritage, are UK market leaders in AS/EN 9100 certification and have directly employed sector-experienced teams who receive ongoing training, meaning that we offer our clients a first-class service

  • Future-looking: we are shaping and developing future aerospace standards in emerging technologies such as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)

  • Global reach: we have 84,000 clients operating in 193 countries and 90 offices in 31 countries, meaning we can consistently support clients in their international operations and global expansion plans

How we’ve helped clients in aerospace

  • Ioannis Metsovitis, Senior Vice President Operations

  • Produmax

  • iPRO