Build to print
You issue the drawing revision and the acceptance criteria. We own routing, tooling, process control, first article and production records. You sign the release.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing under your approval, not instead of it
A holder that outsources production is not buying parts. It is buying a shop floor it can put its own name on. That only works if the boundary is written down before the first drawing leaves your building.
Three ways to be manufactured for
Which one applies is decided by what you already hold, not by what we would prefer to sell.
New part introduction
Engineering and process development start from a sample or an OEM reference part. Design compliance, approval data and the DER finding remain yours.
Under our partners’ approval
Where the State of Registry accepts the document, parts can be built under a manufacturing partner’s approval. We say in writing which registrations that works for, and which it does not.
Build to print
The cleanest split. You hold the design; we hold the process between your drawing and the shipped unit.
What you send
- The drawing and the revision you want built
- Specification and acceptance criteria, including test methods
- Material and finish callouts, with approved substitutions if any
- The approval reference the parts will be released against
- Packing, marking and serialisation requirements
What comes back
- The parts, to the revision that was actually issued
- A first article inspection report in AS9102 format
- Material certificates with heat and lot traceability
- The process traveller, signed at every operation
- A certificate of conformity against that revision
One discipline that saves programmes: the revision on the drawing and the revision on the certificate of conformity are compared, in writing, before the batch ships. Most disputes about “the wrong part” are disputes about a revision nobody pinned down.
New part introduction
When the only thing that exists is a sample or a reference part, the work starts one step earlier.
We carry out engineering and process development from a sample or an OEM reference part: material identification, dimensional survey, routing, fixture design, process trials and a first article off the resulting process.
What that produces is an engineering draft and a manufacturing process — not approved design data. Design compliance verification, the approval submission and the DER finding stay with you, because the approval is yours and so is the responsibility that comes with it.
If that boundary is the thing you were hoping to outsource, we are the wrong supplier, and it is better to know that now.
| Task | Done by |
|---|---|
| Sample survey and material identification | AeromatMall |
| Routing, fixtures, process trials | AeromatMall |
| First article from the new process | AeromatMall |
| Design compliance verification | Holder, or the holder’s DER |
| Approval submission and finding | Holder, to its authority |
| Release of the installed part | Holder |
Who carries what
Written into the manufacturing agreement before tooling is cut. This table is the short version of that clause.
| Item | Carried by | What that means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| Design data and the approval itself | Holder | Received, never assumed |
| Concessions, deviations and repairs to design | Holder | Raised with the evidence, decided by you |
| Release document (tag, certificate, statement) | Holder | Production records supplied to support it |
| Routing, work instructions, in-process control | AeromatMall | Written, versioned, auditable |
| Tooling, fixtures and gauges | Holder owns | Built or transferred, kept separable, removable |
| First article inspection report | Joint | Produced by us, approved by you |
| Liability for manufacturing defect | AeromatMall | Containment, root cause, corrective action |
| Liability for design defect | Holder | We report, we do not redesign |
The full agreement framework — including audit rights, change control and recall — is set out in the compliance kit.
What the agreement does not cover
Six positions stated once, so that nobody has to discover them later.
| Position | Why it is written this way |
|---|---|
| Your certificate is not transferred | The approval belongs to the holder named on it. A manufacturing partner cannot lend it. |
| No finished parts are offered for sale | Output is produced against a programme and belongs to the customer who ordered it. |
| No stock and no exchange pool | Holding inventory would make us a distributor, and would change what we are able to promise. |
| Release documents are not signed by us | Signing a release is an act under an approval. We produce the records that support it. |
| No blanket statement of installability | Acceptance depends on the registration. A blanket promise would be worth nothing. |
| No delivery date before the first article plan | Process, tooling and inspection decide the date. Quoting it earlier is guesswork. |
What we need before we can quote
Six items. Without them any number we give you is a placeholder.
- Part family and the function the part performs
- Drawing status — released, draft, or nothing but a sample
- Approval you hold, and the reference it was issued under
- State of Registry you intend to sell into
- Annual and first-order quantities
- Any process history from a previous shop, including what went wrong
Tell us what you are building. We will tell you what it takes.
Send a drawing status, a part family and a state of registry. If the release path does not work, you will hear that in the first reply — not after the tooling is cut.