Quality in the Aerospace & Defense Industry: End-to-End Excellence Across Global Supply Chains & Manufacturing Plants

With exceptionally rigorous demands in terms of safety and reliability, the aerospace and defense industry firmly prioritizes quality in order to achieve its goals. Maintaining strict adherence to quality standards presents a constant challenge for players in this industry with the global distribution of supply chains and assembly lines and increasing complexity of products.

Benefit from TRIGO’s 40 years of experience in inspection, testing and quality management to achieve your goals and deliver multimillion aircraft on time and on quality to your customers.

Discover Our Quality Management Services for the Aerospace & Defense Industry

  • Technical Resourcing

    Source Inspection

    When you are launching a new product, transferring work or qualifying new suppliers, TRIGO source inspection expertise steers you smoothly through the bottleneck of on-demand, last-minute or urgent source inspection. Covering all commodities, our network of inspectors, working with our TRIGOSCOPE software, will solve your issues.

    Aerospace, Defense & Rail Quality Management Services
  • Incoming Inspection

    Incoming Inspection

    Products stacked on a dock? TRIGO’s incoming inspection solution provides you with a complete self-managed team offering short or long-term assistance with reinstating product inflow in your plant.

    Aerospace, Defense & Rail Inspection
  • Delivery Assurance

    Delivery Assurance

    Dealing with problems to ensure that all the necessary parts for assembly of your equipment are delivered on time? Our field team of Delivery Assurance Specialists are deployed to your suppliers, worldwide, to provide visibility, track deliveries and eliminate bottlenecks. Get your parts on time and on quality!

    Delivery Assurance
  • Serial Production Assessments

    Predictive Data Model & AI Data Solution

    Do you want to stop steering your supply chain in the rear-view mirror? Our TRIGOSCOPE On-Time Demand predictor solution forecasts events that are most likely to cause incoming delays in the supply chain, so that you can dispatch appropriate preventive teams and focus on problem solving where and when it is needed.

    Data Analytics and AI
  • Consulting and Engineering

    Supplier Evaluation & Development

    Do you know what is really happening to your suppliers? Are they ready for production? How can they perform or recover from a crisis? Trust our experienced team to guide you through the jungle of supplier selection, evaluation and development!

    Supplier Development & Crisis Management
  • Training

    Training & Coaching

    Our comprehensive catalog of training courses equip professionals to master the skills and knowledge necessary to perform their job day-in and day-out. Our courses meet industry specific requirements and are delivered in multiple learning formats; tailored onsite workshops, public or virtual environments.

    Training service
  • Auditing

    Auditing

    Let TRIGO be an extension of your auditing team. Whether a company is looking for help performing their own internal management system audits, supply chain readiness or ISO audits, dialing in on a level of conformance to predefined criteria, understanding system strengths and weaknesses or determining supplier qualification and risk, our auditing teams are globally available to provide clients with the insight they need to make important decisions every day.

    Auditing
  • Spark, our automated optical inspection system inspecting a metal part.

    Non-Destructive Testing & Measurement

    TRIGO provides state-of-the-art 3D Metrology and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) precision services, ensuring the highest accuracy for critical components in the Aerospace, Defense, and Rail industries. Our advanced capabilities include laser scanning and CMM inspections, delivering precise, repeatable, and essential measurements for high-performance applications. Furthermore, various NDT techniques complement our service portfolio for additional parts analyses and compliance assessments including liquid penetrant, ultrasonics, and welding inspections.

    NDT & Measurement
  • Launch Support

    Quality Engineering

    Are you struggling to improve overall product quality? Are you lacking bandwidth to analyze your quality escapes and deploy the necessary action plans? Rely on TRIGO quality management teams to boost your existing team’s capability and achieve your long-term quality goals!

    Technical Resourcing

Quality Excellence in Action: Real World Results

  • Full Aircraft Fuselage Shipset Source Inspection

    A European aerospace company required a fuselage shipset inspection, which led to TRIGO’s implementation of a dual-location program in Portugal and India. Our teams perform examinations of components including fuselage, wings, and stabilizers, while coordinating rework activities. The program processes eight shipsets monthly, achieving a 15% reduction in non-conformities and maintaining communication between suppliers and final assembly operations.

  • FAI Source Inspection

    TRIGO supported a production transfer for an aircraft components manufacturer, from the US to India. Our local team conducted First Article Inspection and source inspection of cargo door sheet metal parts. Through monitoring and methodology transfer, the program achieved 100% part validation pre-shipment and 100% conformity rates, while meeting cost objectives.

  • Recovery - Quality Wall

    TRIGO implemented a quality wall for a Portuguese aerospace components manufacturer. Three on-site inspectors carried out evaluations of fuselage elements, including dimensional, geometric, and conductivity assessments. The team inspected 45,000 parts in three months, with 100% shipping conformity, while providing cost benefits through local team deployment and knowledge transfer to local inspectors.

  • Source Inspection Services

    TRIGO provided comprehensive source inspection services for an international aerospace supplier across multiple North American locations. Our team of 9-15 Quality Inspectors and Manager conducted pre and post-shipment inspections of critical aircraft components for A350, A320, and A330 programs. Through implementation of TRIGO best practices and centralized management across 6 facilities, we achieved 67% defect reduction within 6 months, 97% quality level within 12 months, and 90% delivery time improvement. This intervention successfully preserved the supplier’s reputation with the OEM whilst preventing potential disciplinary sanctions.

Customer Spotlight

Project Portfolio Manager at Aerospace OEM

I’d like to give huge thanks to our trainer. His highly skilled knowledge, problem solving solutions and interesting presentations, have contributed to increasing both our knowledge and our internal motivation for performance

Head of Quality at a Leading Aerospace Manufacturing Company

We greatly appreciate the service provided within our scope. Responsiveness, mindset, competence, and initiative are all present. We are fully satisfied with our collaboration.