Accreditation
Critical Processes and Products
Connect the actual product or process configuration to design, qualification, manufacturing and release evidence. Critical activities require application-specific criteria and demonstrated technical coverage.
Programme overview
Scope first.
Evidence throughout.
Connect the actual product or process configuration to design, qualification, manufacturing and release evidence. Critical activities require application-specific criteria and demonstrated technical coverage.
Technical scope
Subjects within this family.
The profile retains 22 technical subjects. Inclusion here describes the framework; an individual grant covers only the specifically assessed and approved scope.
- F02-CP01Thermal treatment
- F02-CP02Fusion joining
- F02-CP03Solid-state joining
- F02-CP04Brazing and soldering
- F02-CP05Chemical surface preparation
- F02-CP06Plating and conversion coatings
- F02-CP07Thermal spray processes
- F02-CP08Organic coating processes
- F02-CP09Composite material processing
- F02-CP10Structural bonding
- F02-CP11Metal additive manufacture
- F02-CP12Polymer additive manufacture
- F02-CP13Casting
- F02-CP14Forging and forming
- F02-CP15Precision machining
- F02-CP16Non-conventional machining
- F02-CP17Mechanical surface enhancement
- F02-CP18Electronics assembly
- F02-CP19Wire and harness assembly
- F02-CP20Optical assembly
- F02-CP21Critical mechanical assembly
- F02-CP22Cleanliness and contamination-sensitive processing
Evidence & assessment
Connect the claim to actual capability.
Read the family profile with the common ASTRA standard. Application-specific criteria, local authority and real evidence must be established for the particular case.
Define the object
Identify the legal holder, actual performer, subject or configuration, site, operating conditions and requested outcome.
Demonstrate implementation
Connect applicable requirements to current personnel, methods, resources and traceable original records. Confirm that reused evidence is relevant to this scope.
Resolve the conclusion
Every applicable mandatory condition must pass, exclusions must be independently justified and in-scope nonconformities verified closed before a positive decision.
Outcome boundaries
Use the conclusion actually reached.
Process qualification is limited to the demonstrated process envelope, material and configuration. It does not approve every delivered article or provide universal engineering parameters.
Membership, commercial relationships and a completed application do not determine the technical decision. Separate legal and competent-authority requirements continue to apply.
Controlled references
Programme documents.
Read the common core and this family’s profile together. These resources remain in the dedicated ASTRA collection, not the general Documents library.
First Edition / 30 September 2026. This is the publication date, not an individual approval or effective date. Technical adoption, operator authority and scope activation require their own authentic records.
Your next step
Make the requested scope clear.
Describe the programme family and the actual work for initial scope review. Availability and the appropriate outcome are confirmed for the specific request; submission is not approval.