Global aeronautical industry is acquiring
dimensions and is a high value global business. Significant changes are
happening within short intervals with far more complex and
technologically-driven innovation. Efforts to ensure quality of aeronautical
products are enormous due to the technological sophistication, stringent
practices and the spread of a large number of associated work-centers in the
aviation sector. Airworthiness, quality, reliability and safety are the
major selling points of aeronautical products.
Aeronautical equipment such as aircrafts (both military and civil) and
their parts demand utmost safety and reliability during service use.
Therefore, certain additional industry-specific requirements become
mandatory. These include requirements in the areas of reliability,
maintainability, safety, design verification/validation, etc. Emphasis is
also required in areas such as configuration management, quality control
accountability, article inspection, etc.
Some important parts of civilian and military aircraft including
helicopters are: