AF Technical Committee · AF/TC 01
Aerospace Quality & Product Assurance
Continuing AF Technical Committee for aerospace quality, product assurance and lifecycle confidence.
Understand the distinction
A technical home, not a blanket approval authority.
Read scope, responsibilities and related work together. Cross-disciplinary subjects can need more than one Committee.
Continuity and coordination
A Committee retains subject knowledge, coordinates review and connects related Working Group activity. Its public scope is the starting point for placing a question.
Technical focus areasFocused execution
A Working Group addresses a bounded question, evidence task or draft. A completed draft or Committee recommendation is distinct from authorized publication.
Technical Work ProcessParticipation is considered separately
Relevant experience and competence need to fit the subject and the applicable arrangements. Membership alone does not confer an appointment or voting authority.
Eligibility and participationCommittee purpose
Purpose
Aerospace quality depends on traceable requirements, reliable products and disciplined control across long lifecycles. AF/TC 01 provides a continuing forum for examining how assurance practices connect design, production, suppliers, configuration and in-service evidence.
Coordinates technical questions about quality and product assurance across the aerospace lifecycle, including interfaces with suppliers and other technical disciplines.
Continuing technical role
What the Committee Does
Within its defined scope, AF/TC 01 maintains continuity between related questions and the work developed to address them.
- Examines recurring quality and product-assurance questions across aerospace programmes.
- Reviews evidence and proposed guidance on reliability, traceability and configuration control.
- Connects supplier-quality questions with relevant materials, manufacturing and supply-chain expertise.
- Supports focused Working Groups and reviews their technical recommendations within its scope.
Defined subject boundary
Technical Scope
The Committee's technical scope provides the subject boundary for continuing coordination. Related questions may still require input from other Committees.
Product and mission assurance
- Quality planning and assurance methods
- Product and mission assurance
- Reliability and maintainability
- Lifecycle evidence and nonconformity learning
Control and traceability
- Configuration management
- Requirements and change traceability
- Supplier quality
- Counterfeit prevention and provenance
Topic route
How technical work enters the Committee
A question can be identified within the Committee's scope or referred through AF Technical Work. The appropriate route depends on relevance, existing evidence and the work required.
- 01Technical need identified
- 02Topic submitted or referred
- 03Scope and existing landscape reviewed
- 04Appropriate route considered
- 05Working Group, research or direct review where appropriate
- 06Committee review and technical recommendation
- 07Applicable AF output or decision process
Focused technical development
Expert Working Groups
Where a defined question requires focused development, the Committee may support an Expert Working Group with an appropriate mandate, expertise and expected output. Work may include research, evidence review, technical drafting, landscape analysis, comparison or consultation preparation.
A Working Group reports its findings through the relevant technical structure; it does not independently make a final AF institutional decision.
Connected expertise
Cross-Committee Coordination
Many aerospace questions cross technical boundaries. AF/TC 01 may coordinate with the Committees below when their expertise is relevant; these are peer relationships, not lines of subordination.
Published appointments
Committee Participants
Technical participation
Interested in contributing to AF/TC 01?
Quality engineers, product-assurance specialists, reliability practitioners and supplier-quality professionals can contribute relevant experience. Eligible members and relevant technical experts may share their interests through the Federation's participation routes. Membership does not automatically create a Committee appointment.
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