World Leader in the Manufacture of Aerospace & Specialty Fasteners
AS Aerospace is a leading manufacturer of quality precision aerospace hardware. AS Aerospace’s main areas of expertise are internally threaded products that are critical safety items used in, high stress, high fatigue, and high temperature applications. In addition, ASA employs a robust engineering department and can work with design engineers to develop and manufacture special application fasteners for any requirement as well as support new designs with OEM’s. Some areas that distinguish ASA apart from other hardware manufactures is ASA’s 100% quality rating, very competitive lead times, advanced capabilities (engineering & production), and small business accreditation.
Products
Diameters range from #4-40 to 2” in Standard sizes and MJ3 to MJ30 in Metric sizes,
as well as 12pt self-locking nuts up to 2”. Strength up to 300 KSI (300,000 lbs./Sq. in),
temperature ranges from minus 300 degrees F to 1,600 degrees F.
Materials
Inconel 718, MP159, MP35N, Waspaloy, A286, 17-4PH, PH13-8Mo, Stainless Steels
include 300 & 400 series
Applications
High strength, Close Tolerance, High Fatigue, and High Temperature applications. Jet
engines, turbines, APU’s (Auxiliary Power Units), Rocket Engines (Liquid & Solid),
Missiles, Airframes, Wheels, Brakes & Landing Systems, Satellites, Vibration and
Shock Control, Cat Scan Metal Tubes, etc.
Configurations include
12pt Nuts, Various Spline Nuts, 12pt with Nose, 12pt Hex Collar, Slab Dee Nuts, Hex
with Nose, Hex with Trepan, Barrel Nuts, and Shank Nuts/Clinch Nuts.
AS Aerospace is a leading manufacturer of quality precision aerospace hardware. AS Aerospace’s main areas of expertise are internally threaded products that are critical safety items used
in, high stress, high fatigue, and high temperature applications. In addition, ASA employs a robust engineering department and can work with design engineers to develop and manufacture special application fasteners for any requirement as well as support new designs with OEM’s. Some areas that distinguish ASA a
part from other hardware manufactures is ASA’s 100% quality rating, very competitive lead times, advanced capabilities (engineering & production), and small business accreditation.
Products
Diameters range from #4-40 to 2” in Standard sizes and MJ3 to MJ30 in Metric sizes,
as well as 12pt self-locking nuts up to 2”. Strength up to 300 KSI (300,000 lbs./Sq. in),
temperature ranges from minus 300 degrees F to 1,600 degrees F.
Materials
Inconel 718, MP159, MP35N, Waspaloy, A286, 17-4PH, PH13-8Mo, Stainless Steels
include 300 & 400 series
Applications
High strength, Close Tolerance, High Fatigue, and High Temperature applications. Jet
engines, turbines, APU’s (Auxiliary Power Units), Rocket Engines (Liquid & Solid),
Missiles, Airframes, Wheels, Brakes & Landing Systems, Satellites, Vibration and
Shock Control, Cat Scan Metal Tubes, etc.
Configurations include
12pt Nuts, Various Spline Nuts, 12pt with Nose, 12pt Hex Collar, Slab Dee Nuts, Hex
with Nose, Hex with Trepan, Barrel Nuts, and Shank Nuts/Clinch Nuts.
Quality
Customer-Focus Enterprise
As a customer-focused organization, we must understand our customers’ current and future requirements. We must create training, systems and procedures designed to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations.
Leadership
We must establish a unity of purpose, direction and stable environment in order that our employees can be fully engaged in achieving our company’s objectives.
Involvement of People
We must ensure that our employees are aware of how important their participation is in product realization and quality.
Process Approach
We must ensure that all related resources are available and activities are managed as a planned and efficient process to achieve the desired result.
System Approach to Management
We must identify, understand and manage the interrelated processes of our Quality Management System to achieve defined objectives while contributing to the effectiveness and efficiency of our company.
Continual Improvement
We must ensure that continual improvement is a constant and ongoing objective of MS Aerospace
Evidence-Based Approach to Decision-Making
We must ensure that all decisions are effective and are based on both logical and intuitive analysis of accurate data and information.
Mutually Beneficial Supplier Relationship
We must create value by fostering mutually beneficial relationships with our suppliers, through excellent communication and clear definition of limitations and expectations.
MS Aerospace’s Quality Policy
It is MS Aerospace’s Quality Policy to provide our customers with competitively priced products that comply with all applicable requirements while meeting or exceeding the customers’ needs and expectations for performance, reliability and safety over the long term.
In support of this policy, we are committed to continually improving the effectiveness and efficiency of our processes and of our Quality Management System and to ensure an adequate framework for the establishment and review of the Quality Objectives.
As of March 27 2018, A.S. Aerospace Inc. has released a new revision of its Quality Management System (QMS) Manual.
If you would like to review the MS Aerospace QMS Manual, click here.
Capabilities
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- Hot Forging
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- Cold Forging
- Nut Former / Nut Forging 5X
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- Heat Treat (Nadcap Certified)
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- Screw Machines
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- CNC Lathes
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- CNC Mills
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- Extensive Robotics
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- Pointing
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- Wire & Sinker EDM’s
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- Marking
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- Centerless Grinding
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- RSS Auto/CNC Grinding
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- Tooling And Dies
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- Lock-Wire Hole Drilling
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- Surface Grinding
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- Weldon Surface Grinding
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- Water Jet Machining
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- Fillet Rolling
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- Thread Rolling
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- Full Test Lab (Nadcap Certified)
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- Fluorescent Penetrant NDT Inspection (Nadcap Certified)
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- Magnetic Particle NDT Inspection (Nadcap Certified)
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- Passivation, Lube, Chem. Processing (Nadcap Certified)
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- Metrology
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- Visual Inspection
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- Dimensional Inspection
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- Full SPC Control
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- Continuous Improvement
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- 6-S Organization
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- Ship & Pack (Including U.S. Govt.)
Supplier Quality Assurance Requirements (SQAR)
Purpose
The Supplier Quality Assurance Requirements (SQAR) Document establishes requirements for suppliers to A.S. Aerospace, Inc.
Scope
SQAR requirements are in addition to those tasks set forth in any other contractual document.
The requirements apply to suppliers who are involved with the supply of products or services that fall within a Class I-VI distinction (refer to Section B on the SQAR PDF document). The class distinction is denoted in the purchase order header. Only approved suppliers are permitted to receive PO’s with a specified class distinction.
Certifications
AS9100
Standardizes quality management system requirements for the aerospace industry. The establishment of common requirements results in improved quality and reduced costs.
ISO/IEC 17025
Standardizes all the requirements that testing and calibration laboratories are required to comply to in order to demonstrate that a management system is in place, technical competence, and the ability to generate technically valid results.
Nadcap
Provides international, unbiased, independent manufacturing process and product assessments and certification services for the purpose of adding value, reducing total cost, and facilitating relationships between primes and suppliers.
Our History
A.S. Aerospace was established in 2018 by father and son. Starting as an offshoot of well established M.S. Aerospace, A.S. Aerospace grew to become its own individual entity. Currently, A.S. Aerospace is in the midst of constructing its new, state of the art, 90,000 sq/ft facility in Palmdale, California.
M.S. Aerospace was established on June 1st, 1992, with just 3 founding employees, in an empty building on Foothill Boulevard in Sylmar, California, just a few miles from our current location.
The Company’s core strategy was to position itself as a responsive customer-centric niche player in high temperature, high strength aerospace bolts, studs, pins, and screws, serving the jet engine and rocket engine industry. Right from the start, M.S. Aerospace served the most demanding customers in the industry, with some of the most challenging high strength fasteners. This challenging ambition was accomplished with the founding principle of World Class Manufacturing.
In the short term, the depressed aerospace market in 1992 and 1993 forced the company to distinguish itself by concentrating on its core strengths: Unrivaled quality, significantly shorter lead times and superior service. In this way the company was able to maintain tremendous growth even in an industry recession.
M.S. Aerospace soon gained a formidable reputation as a manufacturer capable of producing consistently world class fasteners in impressive lead times, with the integrity and documentation required by an increasingly demanding marketplace.
By the end of 1993, M.S. Aerospace, had grown to 48 employees and was doing significant business with jet engine manufacturers through distribution.
In January of 1994, the original M.S. Aerospace facility on Foothill Boulevard was destroyed by the January 1994 Northridge earthquake. Although a profound blow to the fledgling company, M.S. Aerospace secured a building in Burbank and was back in full production by the beginning of February 1994, just two weeks after the earthquake, and just four days after moving into the new building.
The process of rebuilding the company began immediately and was successful beyond expectations, so that by the end of 1994, M.S. Aerospace had 73 employees and had a secured General Electric Aircraft Engines approval with a 100% quality rating. The impressive growth continued through 1995 and 1996, and the most significant factor in this growth was attributable to providing Pratt and Whitney and General Electric with impeccable quality jet engine fasteners in very short lead times.
By the end of 1997, with 130 employees, M.S. Aerospace had outgrown it’s building in Burbank, and moved into a brand-new, 47,000 square ft., purpose-built facility in the Cascades Business Park, in Sylmar, California.
Once again the growth of M.S. Aerospace continued unabated, driven by our ability to provide our customers with an unrivalled level of service, and the very best critical-application aerospace bolts in the business. In this period, we gained ISO9001 and AS9100 certification, Nadcap accreditation of our Lab and Non Destructive Testing, and many new OEM approvals.
Such has been our growth, that in June of 2004, with 175 employees, M.S. Aerospace moved once again, still within the Cascades Business Park in Sylmar, to another custom building, this time of 100,000 square feet, with 14,000 square feet dedicated to a brand new Thermal Treatment facility which has already gained Nadcap accreditation. We have also added in-house cleaning, passivation, lube, and drilling. Now with over 300 employees, M.S. Aerospace continues to go from strength to strength, still serving the most demanding customers in the industry, and adding many high strength, high fatigue structural and landing system parts.
Reacting to customer demand, in the last few years we have added self-locking nuts and barrel nuts to our portfolio of products, and are proud to say that we have succeeded in this field beyond our expectations.
However large we grow, M.S. Aerospace looks forward to serving our customers with consistent reliability, quality, integrity, and service, building on our knowledge and experience in the high strength, close tolerance and high temperature fastener market. Our commitment to Continual Improvement is prominent in every business decision we make, and our dedication to providing our customers with the very best product and service means our customers will receive the best value possible.
A.S. Aerospace is proud to offer a nimble, responsive and high value option to the “Big 3” aerospace fastener manufacturers. We will be pleased to manufacture standard or customer special fasteners, or to help you design your aerospace bolt, nut, stud, pin, or screw to the most exacting specifications.