Industry // Aerospace

Every cert package is a manual assembly job. Every audit is a scramble.

Bloomfield builds custom AI software for aerospace manufacturers. Compliance documentation that assembles itself from your existing records. Process knowledge that survives turnover. Quoting tools that account for AS9100, NADCAP, and ITAR requirements from the first line item.

The Problem

Aerospace manufacturing runs on documentation. The documentation runs on people.

The technical work is hard enough. The compliance burden on top of it is where shops lose time, margin, and experienced people who get tired of assembling the same cert packages by hand for the 500th time.

Cert packages assembled from 6 different systems

A single aerospace part ships with material certs, dimensional inspection reports, process certifications, test results, first-article documentation, and customer-specific paperwork. Your quality team pulls these from the ERP, the CMM software, the heat treat vendor, a shared drive, and email. One missing document holds an entire shipment. The average cert package at a 100-person aerospace shop takes 3 to 5 hours to compile by hand.

First-article inspections that repeat avoidable work

An AS9102 first-article inspection report requires ballooned drawings, dimensional results mapped to each characteristic, material traceability, and process verification. When a similar part ran 18 months ago, the quality engineer built a nearly identical FAI. That work lives in a folder nobody can find or a file named something nobody remembers. The next FAI starts from scratch. Compliance prep is where aerospace shops lose the most recoverable hours.

Quoting that underestimates compliance cost

Aerospace quoting requires estimating raw material with long procurement lead times, tight-tolerance machining across multiple operations, special process outsourcing for NADCAP-approved heat treat or NDT, and the quality overhead for documentation at every step. Estimators who forget to account for the 6 hours of cert prep or the 14-week titanium lead time erode margin before the job hits the floor. Quoting speed and accuracy determine whether aerospace shops grow or stagnate.

Process knowledge concentrated in a few people

Your senior quality manager knows which NADCAP vendor handles Inconel 718 heat treat within the temperature tolerance your prime contractor requires. Your lead machinist knows the fixturing approach that holds +/- 0.0002" on a turbine blade root form. ITAR restrictions mean you cannot send drawings to offshore teams for help. When these people leave, the knowledge gap is immediate and expensive.

How Bloomfield Solves It

Compliance-ready tools built for aerospace reality

Every tool we build for aerospace manufacturers accounts for the regulatory layer from day one. AS9100, NADCAP, ITAR, customer-specific requirements. The software runs on your infrastructure, within your security perimeter. No data leaves your control.

Quoting Agent
Your estimator describes an incoming RFQ. The tool surfaces every similar aerospace job you have quoted: materials sourced, special processes required, NADCAP vendors used, lead times experienced, and margins achieved. It flags compliance requirements specific to the customer and the spec. A quote for a complex titanium bracket with NDT and passivation that used to take a full day of research gets built in under two hours with full traceability to past performance. Full quoting guide.
Knowledge Engine
Every process note, tooling approach, inspection technique, and vendor lesson learned gets captured and made searchable within your ITAR-compliant environment. When a new quality engineer needs to build a cert package for a part family they have never seen, they get the exact approach that passed the last customer audit. When a machinist loads a new nickel-alloy job, they get the cutting parameters and fixturing strategy that produced conforming parts on the same machine. Full knowledge capture guide.
Production Dashboard
Job status, special process outsourcing status, material procurement timelines, and delivery risk visible in one place. Aerospace lead times stretch across months. A delay at the NADCAP heat treat vendor in week 4 cascades through 12 downstream operations. The dashboard shows the cascade before it becomes a missed delivery. Full production visibility guide.
Equipment Intelligence
Utilization, cycle time consistency, and maintenance patterns for every machine. Aerospace tolerances demand process stability. A 5-axis mill that drifts 0.0003" after 6 hours of continuous cutting is a scrap event on a $4,000 billet. Equipment intelligence catches the drift pattern before it produces nonconforming parts.

What an Engagement Looks Like

Built around how aerospace operations actually run

Aerospace manufacturers operate under constraints that generic AI vendors do not understand. ITAR data handling, customer flowdown requirements, traceability obligations at every step. We scope every engagement with those constraints as the starting point.

  1. Discovery call. You walk us through your operation. What primes you serve, what certifications you hold, where compliance documentation consumes the most hours, and what breaks when your quality lead is out. 30 minutes.
  2. Workflow audit. We map the compliance and production bottleneck. Cert package assembly, FAI prep, quoting, scheduling. We identify where data lives, who touches it, and what happens when the process runs under audit pressure.
  3. Security and data scoping. We catalog your data, confirm ITAR and customer-specific handling requirements, and design the deployment architecture before writing a line of code. Everything runs within your security perimeter.
  4. Scoped build. Working software in 6 to 8 week phases. Your quality team, your estimators, your production managers test against real jobs and real cert packages. We iterate until the tool fits. How to run an AI pilot without disrupting operations.

Tell us about your operation.

30 minutes. You describe the compliance or production bottleneck. We tell you where AI tooling fits, what it costs, and how it works within your security requirements.

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