Aerospace Manufacturers and Suppliers
Cut quote cycle time. Reduce quality paperwork. Recover engineering and planner hours.
Your engineers, planners, quality managers, and program leads should not be buried in RFQ packages, cert reviews, supplier follow-ups, NCR summaries, or status reports that take hours to rebuild by hand.
MVP.dev builds AI automation systems for aerospace teams that plug into the tools you already use, including Epicor Kinetic, Infor CloudSuite Aerospace & Defense, Deltek Costpoint, NetSuite, JobBOSS², E2 Shop System, ProShop ERP, Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Solumina, MasterControl, ETQ Reliance, TIPQA, Paperless Parts, CATIA, SolidWorks, and Exostar.
We help aerospace suppliers respond faster, reduce manual document review, tighten supplier controls, and give technical teams more time for work that actually moves programs forward.
Production-ready in 3 to 4 weeks.
Get a Workflow Fit Assessment See the Aerospace Automation DemosBuilt for aerospace teams with too much work trapped in documents, portals, and status meetings
This is for aerospace manufacturers, machine shops, component suppliers, MRO teams, engineering services firms, and AS9100-certified operators that need more throughput without adding more coordinators to chase paperwork.
You are likely a strong fit if:
- RFQs take days because engineers manually review drawings, specs, clauses, and prior jobs
- Quality teams spend too much time building cert packs, FAI packages, NCR summaries, or audit evidence
- Supplier review still depends on email threads, spreadsheets, portals, and staff memory
- Program status meetings are built from stale exports and manual updates
- Your team uses aerospace ERP, QMS, PLM, MES, or supplier portal tools that do not talk cleanly to each other
- You want workflow improvement inside your current stack, not a disruptive software migration
If your team is growing but quote response, quality review, supplier follow-up, and program reporting still depend on manual effort, there is almost certainly margin and capacity trapped inside the workflow.
The fastest wins we usually find
RFQ review and proposal preparation
Slow quotes lose work. Rushed quotes create margin problems.
We build RFQ workflows that read customer packages, extract requirements, compare drawings and specs against prior jobs, flag risky clauses, draft a response outline, and prepare the first version of the proposal package for review.
The goal is simple:
- Requirements extracted from RFQ files
- Similar prior jobs surfaced
- Missing data flagged early
- Risky terms and specs highlighted
- Estimator-ready summary created
For many aerospace suppliers, this can reduce first-pass RFQ review from 4 to 8 hours down to 60 to 90 minutes, while helping estimators catch missing requirements before pricing is committed.
See the RFQ Proposal Demo →Quality document retrieval with cited answers
Quality managers should not spend half the morning searching procedures, customer specs, AS9100 evidence, and prior audit findings.
We build cited-answer systems that let approved users ask plain-English questions across your QMS documents, work instructions, customer flow-downs, inspection plans, NCRs, CAPAs, and training records.
Every answer includes a source trail so your team can verify it before using it.
- No unsupported answers
- No guessing from memory
- No hunting through old folders
- No blind chatbot responses
Teams commonly recover 5 to 12 hours per week across quality, engineering, and operations by reducing document search and repeated explanation work.
See the Cited Knowledge Demo →Supplier diligence before delays hit production
A late supplier update is not just an email problem. It can turn into missed ship dates, expediting costs, and customer pressure.
We build supplier review workflows that compare POs, contracts, quotes, supplier history, delivery performance, quality issues, and unusual pricing changes before a purchase or escalation decision is made.
Your team gets a clear answer:
- Is this supplier approved for the part or process?
- Does the quote match the PO and expected pricing?
- Is delivery risk increasing?
- Are quality issues or cert gaps present?
- Should this be approved, reviewed, or escalated?
This turns supplier review from a manual scramble into a repeatable control that can reduce avoidable expediting and rework by 10 to 20 percent on targeted supplier workflows.
See the Supplier Diligence Demo →Program and operations dashboards without spreadsheet rebuilding
Leadership needs to know what is late, what is blocked, and what is at risk. They should not wait for someone to rebuild the report every Friday.
We build executive dashboards that pull from ERP, QMS, MES, quoting, and supplier data to show production status, quote backlog, open NCRs, late POs, aging approvals, and program risk.
Each weekly update can show:
- What changed
- Which jobs or programs are at risk
- Where supplier delays are building
- Which quality issues need attention
- What action should happen next
The goal is not prettier dashboards. The goal is fewer surprise escalations, faster decisions, and 3 to 6 hours a week back from manual reporting.
See the Executive Dashboard Demo →Your current tools stay in place
We build the workflow layer around your existing aerospace operating environment.
Supported and common systems include:
Your ERP stays where it is. Your QMS stays where it is. Your engineering files, customer portals, and supplier records stay in the systems your team already uses.
We add the workflow layer that reads, routes, reviews, summarizes, and writes back when appropriate.
Three focused offers
RFQ Acceleration System
For aerospace teams losing quotes because intake, review, and proposal preparation take too long.
Includes
- RFQ workflow mapping
- Customer package intake
- Drawing and specification extraction
- Clause and requirement summaries
- Prior job matching
- Risk and missing-data flags
- Estimator review queue
- Proposal draft generation
Best for
- Aerospace machine shops
- Component suppliers
- Engineering services firms
- Teams with slow quote turnaround
Quality Documentation and Audit Readiness System
For teams spending too much time finding, checking, and packaging quality evidence.
Includes
- QMS document ingestion
- Cited knowledge retrieval
- FAI and cert pack support flows
- NCR and CAPA summaries
- Customer flow-down lookup
- Audit evidence indexing
- Human review controls
Best for
- AS9100-certified suppliers
- Quality teams with recurring audit pressure
- Manufacturers with heavy customer documentation
- MRO and repair operations
Supplier Risk and Program Visibility System
For operators who need earlier warning on supplier delays, quality escapes, and program status risk.
Includes
- Supplier data source review
- PO and quote matching
- Approved supplier checks
- Delivery and quality risk summaries
- Program status dashboards
- Weekly AI-generated narratives
- Escalation routing
- Leadership-ready reporting
Best for
- Multi-program manufacturers
- Supplier management teams
- Operations leaders
- Companies with recurring late materials or cert gaps
Start with one workflow. Prove the ROI. Expand from there.
You do not need a full AI transformation project to get value.
The safest path is to pick one painful workflow, automate it, measure the results, and then expand once the system proves itself.
Most aerospace teams start with one of these:
- RFQ intake and proposal preparation
- Quality document retrieval
- FAI and cert pack review
- Supplier diligence and PO review
- Program status dashboards
- NCR, CAPA, and audit evidence summaries
This keeps the first project focused, measurable, and easier to approve.
Typical engagement range
Most aerospace workflow builds start with a focused pilot.
Starter Workflow Pilot
Best for one high-value workflow
$7,500 to $15,000
Aerospace Workflow Buildout
Best for multiple workflows or multi-site operations
$15,000 to $40,000
Ongoing Optimization and Support
Best for teams that want continuous improvement, reporting, new workflows, and support
$1,500 to $7,500 per month
Final pricing depends on workflow count, system access, document complexity, approval rules, compliance needs, and whether the workflow writes back into production systems.
The first step is not a giant commitment. It is a workflow fit assessment that identifies the fastest path to measurable ROI.
What waiting costs
Manual aerospace workflows do not just waste time. They create late quotes, slower shipments, audit stress, and margin leakage.
Every month you delay:
- Estimators lose hours to RFQ review instead of pricing better work
- Engineers answer the same document and spec questions repeatedly
- Quality teams rebuild evidence packages by hand
- Supplier risks show up too late to prevent production impact
- Program reporting depends on stale exports and manual updates
- Growth requires more coordinators instead of better workflow leverage
If your team is already at capacity, workflow automation is not a luxury project. It is how you create capacity without simply adding headcount.
How the engagement works
Week 1: Find the highest-value leak
We review your RFQ process, quality documentation flow, supplier review process, program reporting, or engineering knowledge retrieval workflow.
You get:
- Workflow map
- Automation opportunity ranking
- KPI targets
- Fixed-scope recommendation
- Implementation plan
We define success before building anything.
Week 2: Build against your real workflow
We connect to the systems, documents, exports, RFQ files, QMS procedures, supplier records, or program data needed for the selected workflow.
We build around your actual process, not a generic aerospace template.
Week 3: Test, tune, and review
We run real historical examples through the workflow in staging. For RFQ workflows, this can include prior bid packages and known outcomes. For quality workflows, this can include approved procedures, NCRs, CAPAs, and audit evidence.
You see:
- Accuracy results
- Exceptions
- Failure cases
- Confidence thresholds
- Review queue behavior
- Estimated time savings
Nothing goes live until the workflow is validated.
Week 4: Deploy, monitor, and support
We deploy the workflow, train the relevant users, monitor initial results, and support the first production cycle.
You get:
- Production workflow
- Dashboard or review queue
- Documentation
- Admin handoff
- 30 days of support
- Recommendations for the next workflow
Most builds are designed to pay back in 6 to 8 weeks of live use, depending on volume, labor cost, workflow scope, and how much engineering, quality, or planner time is recovered.
Built for controlled aerospace workflows
Aerospace workflow automation has to be controlled, auditable, and careful with technical data.
Our systems are designed around:
- Least-privilege access
- Encrypted data in transit and at rest
- Role-based access by program, customer, and function
- Audit logs for AI-assisted decisions
- Human review thresholds
- Source-grounded answers with citations
- Client-owned cloud or private deployment when required
- No public model training on your data
- Controlled technical data handling for ITAR and EAR-sensitive workflows
- Support for NIST SP 800-171, DFARS, CMMC, AS9100, and customer flow-down requirements
For teams with ITAR, EAR, DFARS, CMMC, AS9100, or customer confidentiality requirements, we design the implementation around your security and access-control requirements from the start.
Example outcomes
| Workflow | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| RFQ review | Engineers manually read packages, specs, clauses, and prior job notes | Requirements, risks, missing data, and similar jobs summarized for estimator review |
| Quality document search | Staff hunt through procedures, folders, customer specs, and audit records | Cited answers from approved QMS and customer documents |
| FAI and cert pack preparation | Manual checklist review and document chasing before shipment | Required documents flagged, gaps routed, and review status visible |
| Supplier review | POs, quotes, delivery risk, and supplier history checked by hand | One-page supplier risk memo before approval or escalation |
| Program status reporting | Exports, spreadsheets, emails, and manual meeting prep | Live dashboard with weekly narrative and action list |
Why MVP.dev
MVP.dev builds AI business operating systems, internal tools, and automation layers for companies that need real operational outcomes, not AI experiments.
You get:
- 25 years of software architecture and delivery experience
- AI automation strategy and implementation under one roof
- Practical systems built around existing workflows
- Human-in-the-loop design where accuracy matters
- Clear KPIs before development starts
- Production-minded delivery, not prototype theater
The goal is not to impress your team with AI.
The goal is to give them time back, reduce operational drag, and help the business produce more value with the people and systems it already has.
Building the operating playbook too?
Our partners at osforyour.business/aerospace cover the org-design, process, and people side of running a modern aerospace operation. We handle the execution layer that makes it run, so the system they help you design actually delivers the hours back.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much time or money can this save?
It depends on volume, but the fastest savings are usually in RFQ review, quality documentation, supplier review, and program reporting. A small aerospace supplier may recover 8 to 15 hours per week from one workflow. A larger team may recover 25 or more hours per week across estimating, quality, and operations. In dollar terms, many focused workflows target $2,500 to $10,000 per month in recovered labor, avoided expediting, or faster quote throughput. During Week 1, we define the target KPIs before anything is built.
Will this replace our ERP, QMS, PLM, or MES?
No. The goal is to improve the workflow around your current stack, not force a migration. Your ERP, QMS, PLM, MES, CAD files, and supplier portals stay in place. The automation layer reads, routes, summarizes, and writes back only where appropriate and approved.
Can this work with AS9100 workflows?
Yes. We can support AS9100-related workflows such as controlled document lookup, audit evidence retrieval, NCR and CAPA summaries, training record search, FAI support, and customer flow-down review. The system is designed to support review and traceability, not bypass your quality process.
Can this handle ITAR, EAR, DFARS, or CMMC requirements?
We design around your security requirements from the start. That can include least-privilege access, role-based controls, audit logs, private or client-owned deployment, encryption, source citations, and restrictions on where controlled technical data can be processed. We do not assume every workflow can use the same architecture.
Is AI making engineering, quality, or supplier approval decisions?
No. The system can extract, classify, summarize, compare, recommend, and route work, but review thresholds control what happens next. For sensitive workflows, AI-assisted outputs should be treated as recommendations until reviewed or approved by the right person.
What data do you need to start?
It depends on the workflow. For RFQs, we may use sample bid packages, prior proposals, drawings, specs, and outcome notes. For quality workflows, we may use approved procedures, work instructions, NCRs, CAPAs, and audit evidence. For supplier workflows, we may use PO history, supplier lists, quote records, quality issues, and delivery performance.
What is the first step?
Start with a workflow fit assessment. We identify the workflow with the highest ROI potential, estimate the time or money impact, and recommend a focused pilot. You will know what should be built, why it matters, what it should cost, and how success will be measured before committing to a full implementation.
Get the hours and margin back
If your aerospace team is still relying on manual RFQ review, quality document search, supplier checks, or spreadsheet-based program reporting, there is likely a faster way to run the operation.
MVP.dev can help you identify the highest-value workflow, build the automation layer, and deploy it inside your current aerospace stack.
Get a Workflow Fit Assessment See the Aerospace Automation Demos