Three industries. Seven standards. One team.
American Quality Management (AQM) works across three industry contexts — aerospace and defense, medical device, and general manufacturing — with the standards each requires. The cluster expertise differs by industry. The long-term partner model is the same.
Supporting industries including
Core Verticals
Pick the industry that fits.
Aerospace & Defense
Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers building for Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed, SpaceX, Raytheon, and Honeywell. AS9100 for manufacturers; AS9110 for MROs; AS9120 for distributors; Nadcap for special processes. We hold all four aerospace standards in depth — most consultants specialize in one.
Medical Device
Southern California's medical-device cluster runs on ISO 13485 — Orange County, San Diego, the Inland Empire. We help device manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and sterilization providers build QMS that hold up to FDA-aligned supplier audits and customer scrutiny.
General Manufacturing & Environmental
For manufacturers across the US, ISO 9001 is the quality foundation and ISO 14001 is the environmental complement. Sometimes ISO 9001 is the entry point to a future aerospace or medical certification. Sometimes ISO 14001 is the environmental compliance contract your operations need to keep.
The AQM Methodology
The thread across every industry.
The audits differ. The standards differ. The customer expectations differ. Three things stay the same.
1. Documentation that survives the audit that matters
Certification body audits are the milestone. Customer audits — primes, OEMs, FDA-aligned reviewers, environmental compliance auditors — are the test. We engineer for both, with the customer audit as the harder standard.
2. Long-term partnership, not a one-and-done engagement
Most of our clients stay with us across multiple years and multiple certifications. The QMS gets stronger because the relationship continues. No contract forces it — the work just keeps going.
3. Named consultants, accountable to you
You work with named experts with backgrounds inside the industries we serve. AS9100 Lead Auditors. Nadcap Assessors. Medical-device QA leaders. ASQ-certified quality professionals.
Contact Us
Not sure which industry page applies to your operation?
Some of our clients cross two industries — a Tier-2 aerospace supplier that also does some medical-device contract work, or a manufacturer adding ISO 14001 alongside their existing ISO 9001. If your situation is mixed, start with a call — we'll map the standards portfolio that fits your actual customer base.