Industry brief

Aerospace

Control systems that run every special process as qualified, with full traceability.

What matters

What matters most

Aerospace manufacturing and repair work to tight specifications on high-value parts, where a drifting process puts far more than the part at risk. Control systems for cleaning, heat treatment and testing must run each process exactly as qualified, trace every part and give auditors records they can trust.

Special processes, right every time

Cleaning, heat treatment and testing must run exactly to the approved specification on every run, because the result often cannot be fully verified by inspecting the part afterwards.

Traceability for every part

Every part and every process run must be traceable to the equipment, settings and people involved, with records that satisfy your customers, your AS9100 system and your Nadcap auditors.

Data you can trust

Process records must be complete, time-stamped and protected from change, so that a deviation is caught and explained at the time, not discovered at audit.

Controlled change

Once a process is qualified, any change to software, recipes or equipment must be assessed, approved and recorded before it reaches production, however small it looks.

Solutions

Solutions for Aerospace

Matrix delivered the control system for a blade cleaning facility. Every project we deliver follows the same approach: requirements and acceptance criteria agreed up front, logic tested against a simulation before site, and full documentation and test records at handover.

01Component and blade cleaning lines

02Chemical processing and surface treatment

03Furnace and heat treatment control

04Test rigs and data acquisition

05Process recording and part traceability

06Maintenance reporting and diagnostics

How we help

What we bring to Aerospace

Qualified processes are changed with care. We agree requirements, acceptance criteria and change control with your quality team up front, prove logic against a simulation before site, and test against the process specification. You receive traceable test records, version-controlled code and documentation ready for your customer and Nadcap audits.

Upgrades

Standards

The standards that shape your project

The standards listed are those most often relevant to control-system work in this sector. Which apply to your project, and how, is agreed with you at specification stage.

Standard	What it covers	How we work with it
AS9100 (EN 9100)	Quality management for aviation, space and defence organisations, built on ISO 9001.	We support your AS9100 system with controlled change, version records and traceable test evidence.
Nadcap	Industry accreditation of special processes such as heat treating, chemical processing and non-destructive testing.	Process control, alarms and records designed around the audit criteria for your accredited processes.
AMS2750 pyrometry	Temperature sensors, instruments, calibration and furnace uniformity and accuracy testing for thermal processing.	Where your process is thermal, control and recording are designed to your furnace class and instrumentation type.
AS9145 (APQP and PPAP)	Advanced product quality planning and production part approval for aviation, space and defence.	Process control and data that support your process validation and production part approval evidence.
BS EN ISO 13849-1	Safety-related parts of machine control systems, rated by performance level (PL).	Safety functions designed to the performance level your risk assessment requires, then validated and documented.
IEC 62443	Security for industrial automation and control systems.	Segmented networks and controlled access that protect your process records and recipes.