Automotive
- IATF 16949
- VDA 6.3
- PPAP Level 3
- VDA 2
- TISAX
A machining shop working for automotive and one working for aerospace serve the same technology under completely different evidence regimes. That is why the marketplace is navigable by sector as well as by discipline.
Sectors
We do not serve a sector whose demanded evidence we cannot judge ourselves. That limit is deliberate — it is the difference between placing someone and forwarding an email. 2 further sectors are announced and marked as such below.
Cycle-bound, audited, evidence-driven
13 focus categories · 5 typical pieces of evidence
Automotive suppliers work under the hardest evidence regime in industry: IATF 16949, PPAP, ongoing process capability, and a supply chain that holds up in every customer audit. We place only partners who produce that evidence — not those who assert it.
Traceability without a gap
10 focus categories · 5 typical pieces of evidence
In aerospace, documentation is part of what releases a component. Every batch, every heat treatment and every inspection has to stay traceable for decades. Partners in this sector evidence EN 9100 and their special-process approvals in the original.
Plant safety before plant output
12 focus categories · 5 typical pieces of evidence
Process plants run continuously and every stoppage is expensive — but safety and permitting come first. We work with partners who treat explosion protection, the Pressure Equipment Directive and plant safety as a foundation, not as an imposition.
High line speed, strict conformity
12 focus categories · 5 typical pieces of evidence
Packaging lines run to the second and are under growing conformity pressure at the same time: packaging law, recycled-content quotas, food contact. Partners in this sector bring line experience and the documentation that goes with it.
Classified, corrosion-proof, supported worldwide
11 focus categories · 5 typical pieces of evidence
Shipbuilding and marine technology demand class approvals, corrosion protection suited to seawater conditions, and serviceability at locations nowhere near the works.
In preparation
2 focus categories · 0 typical pieces of evidence
Civil engineering and architecture as a sector of its own — prepared, but not yet operating. We already take up requests from construction and assign them by hand; an evidence framework and suitable partners are being built.
In preparation
8 focus categories · 0 typical pieces of evidence
Social services and healthcare as a sector of its own — prepared, but not yet operating. The service areas are already defined and visible under Services; the evidence framework and the partners are being built. Providers, facilities and funding bodies work under different requirements from industry, and we will add those once we can evidence them.
Evidence
Every sector demands its own set of standards. We do not take them into a profile as a declaration but as a checked document with a scope and an expiry date.
Example scenarios
Illustrative examples, one from each sector on this page — not delivered customer projects. They show the situation a request typically arises from.
A machining capacity shortfall threatened series delivery to an OEM customer. Two existing suppliers could not hold the required tolerance class consistently.
Example scenario
The only qualified supplier for heat treatment withdrew its capacity. Without a NADCAP special-process approval no component could be shipped.
Example scenario
The turnaround window was eleven days and had been overrun two years running. Contractors arrived uncoordinated, and explosion-protection evidence was regularly missing at the gate.
Example scenario
Disciplines
All 5 disciplines run across sectors. What differs is the evidence — not the service.
Processes, plant and data in step
7 modules
Material in the right place, at the right time
6 modules
Materials and suppliers with evidence that holds
6 modules
Finding skilled people, keeping them, developing them
6 modules
Legal, tax, finance, IT, marketing and development
6 modules
Advice, technical integration and ongoing operation — as individual modules or as one continuous programme.