Certified, but facing customer blockers.
Customer-specific requirements, supplier controls or programme evidence still need to be addressed.
Independent aerospace quality advisory
Aerospace quality systems built for customer scrutiny.
Prepare for certification and customer audits with processes your team can operate, evidence it can demonstrate, and a readiness plan suited to your scope.
An initial conversation about your scope, concerns and next assessment step.
From requirement to readiness A connected system
01
Understand the requirement
What must be demonstrated?
Scope · customer expectations · applicable standards
02
Build the operating control
Who owns it, and how does it work?
Process · responsibility · capability
03
Examine the evidence
Can the team show it in practice?
Records · traceability · effectiveness
Readiness reviewEvidence, before assertion.
Built around your operation
Manufacturing & design · MRO · Distribution · Software & electronics
Professional background
Know who is advising you.
Principal advisorSimon Kuntam
Founder & Principal Advisor. Your discussion starts with the person leading the practice.
Prior employmentBoeing India quality leadership
Former Country Quality Leader and AS9100D Management Representative.
Examine the backgroundView professional profile
The problem
Where aerospace
readiness gets stuck.
Documents are only useful when they describe controls that work. Gaps often become visible when your team has to demonstrate the system.
The same findings keep returning.
Corrective actions close on paper while ownership, root causes and effectiveness remain unresolved.
Traceability breaks under delivery pressure.
Technical records, process controls and team capability struggle to keep pace with everyday work.
Certification and customer approval are distinct.
Certification audits assess QMS conformity and effectiveness. Customers may also examine programme-specific requirements and supplier approval criteria. Neither outcome is guaranteed by advisory support.
Explore customer approval readinessThe solution
Make quality part
of the work.
Start with your actual activities and risks. Connect requirements to process owners, strengthen controls, and examine the evidence with the people doing the work.
Requirement→Process owner→Operating control→Evidence→Readiness review
Build & design
Manufacturing
AS9100 readiness, supplier controls and customer-required production evidence.
Explore manufacturing Maintain & repairMRO
AS9110 readiness, competence, technical records and maintenance process control.
Explore MRO Source & distributeDistribution
AS9120 readiness, source evidence, chain of custody and counterfeit-parts prevention.
Explore distribution Engineer & assureSoftware & electronics
Requirements traceability, configuration control and applicable assurance processes.
Explore software & electronicsPractical deliverables
Know what your
team receives.
A defined engagement should leave useful outputs in your organisation. The deliverables below are selected and agreed according to your scope.
Gap & evidence register
A prioritised view of requirements, current evidence, gaps and next actions.
Process ownership map
Clear responsibilities, interfaces and decisions across the operation.
Supplier & traceability controls
Controls connected to actual orders, sources, records and customer requirements.
Applicable technical evidence
FAI/APQP or software and electronics assurance support where relevant to the agreed scope.
Team capability
Process-owner and internal-auditor development with competence assessed in context.
Effectiveness & readiness review
Checks of corrective actions and evidence, with unresolved items made explicit.
Illustrative sample See how a gap becomes an owned action.
This example shows a possible register format. It is not a client record or a completed assessment.
Requirement / controlCustomer-requirement flow-down
Evidence to examineOne live purchase order and its source requirements
Gap, if confirmedRelevant requirements absent from the order
Owner / next actionPurchasing owner: correct the control and check another order
How it works
A clear path.
Shared ownership.
Agree the scope before the programme. Your leadership, records and process owners are part of the work, not an audience at the end.
- 01
Discuss
A free initial diagnostic to understand your activities, immediate concerns and fit.
Output: next assessment step - 02
Assess
An agreed workshop or review to establish gaps, priorities and a realistic delivery scope.
Output: scoped roadmap - 03
Implement
Work with process owners on operating controls, records and capability.
Output: controls your team can operate - 04
Verify & hand over
Review the evidence, effectiveness, remaining actions and ongoing ownership.
Output: readiness review and action register
Not sure where to start? Prepare for the diagnostic.
Optional preparation. Your selections stay in this page and do not establish readiness.
Simon Kuntam · Principal AdvisorExperience & evidence
Examine the background.
Discuss the relevance.
Aerospace quality leadership experience informs the practice. What matters for your engagement is how that experience applies to your activities and requirements.
Simon Kuntam
Founder & Principal Advisor · Bengaluru, India
Former Boeing India Country Quality Leader and AS9100D Management Representative.
Client-specific evidence and references are subject to availability, confidentiality and permission. No customer testimonial or endorsement is implied.
Engagement options
Start with
a defined scope.
Understand the next commitment before making it. Fees, outputs and delivery assumptions should be agreed for the work involved.
Initial conversation
Readiness diagnostic
Free / 15 minutes
Discuss your scope, immediate concerns and the next assessment step.
- Remote initial discussion
- Bring certification status and key concerns
- Initial fit and scoping conversation
Define the work
Readiness workshop
Fixed scope / quoted fee
Establish a gap snapshot, priorities and an agreed roadmap.
- Half or full day, by agreement
- Scope and outputs agreed before booking
- Travel and taxes stated in the quotation
Deliver the improvement
Implementation or recovery
Scoped / milestone programme
Strengthen the controls, ownership and evidence your operation needs.
- Scope-led deliverables and milestones
- Process-owner participation
- Timing based on maturity and complexity
Programme scope, sites, starting maturity, urgency and delivery mode affect fees and duration. Read the terms of advisory service
Frequently asked questions
Know what
comes next.
Clarify the practical details before the first discussion.
Ask a specific questionWhich service path fits our organisation?
Start with what you actually do: design/manufacture, maintenance/repair, distribution, or software/electronics. Activities, customer requirements and applicable obligations determine scope. Mixed operations may need more than one path.
What can the free diagnostic establish?
It is an initial 15-minute conversation about your activities, concerns and fit. It can clarify a next assessment step; it is not an audit, a complete gap analysis or evidence of readiness.
What should we prepare, and who should attend?
Bring a short description of your activities and sites, current certification status, relevant customer requirements and immediate concerns. Where practical, include a decision-maker and the quality or engineering lead.
How are fees and duration determined?
They depend on the agreed activities, sites, starting maturity, urgency, deliverables and delivery mode. Workshop fees are quoted before booking. Programme commitments and any travel or taxes are stated in the quotation.
Can you help if we are already certified?
Yes. A discussion can focus on recurring findings, customer-specific approval evidence, supplier controls, technical records or recovery needs. The required support is scoped from the actual situation.
How do remote and on-site delivery work?
Initial discussions can be remote. On-site reviews and workshops are arranged according to scope and location. Suriyavaan is based in Bengaluru; international support is remote or by arrangement, with no foreign office implied.
Who decides certification and customer approval?
Accredited certification bodies make certification decisions. The relevant customer or OEM decides supplier approval. Suriyavaan provides independent advisory and readiness support and does not guarantee either outcome.
How are confidential records and references handled?
Agree information access and confidentiality arrangements before sharing sensitive records. Client references or client-specific material depend on availability and permission. Read our privacy policy and service terms.
Your next step
Clarify your next
readiness step.
Bring your activities, certification status and immediate concern. Start with a focused conversation about what to assess next.
Direct contactsimon@suriyavaan.com+91 97413 70111
Bengaluru, India
Remote and on-site support by arrangement.
Advisory support only. Certification and customer approval decisions remain with their respective bodies.