S-PLANE understands the importance of and is committed to providing the levels of quality, reliability and safety required by the aerospace and defence industries. We recognise the responsibility we have when engaged in airworthiness and other safety-critical designs and therefore follow professional and standards-based system, safety, software and hardware engineering development and production practices that result in the demanded levels of quality, reliability and safety.
S-PLANE’s Quality Management System (QMS) is AS9100D:2016 certified, thereby also encompassing ISO 9001:2015, as should be expected of a company producing solutions for seamless integration to aerospace supply chains. This includes adhering to strict supplier vetting and management, change control, conformance management, configuration management and production processes. Click here to download our AS9100D certificate.
Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) guidelines, ARP-4754A and ARP-4761, form the cornerstone of S-PLANE’s development and safety assessment processes at a system level. RTCA DO-254 and DO-178C guide S-PLANE’s hardware and software development processes respectively, and are regularly applied at various Design Assurance Levels (DALs). RTCA DO-178C extensions DO-330 through DO-333 are applied to the development of S-PLANE’s qualified test tools as well as in support of S-PLANE’s model-based software designs.
S-PLANE’s products are often designed to conform to various industry standards such as VITA standards (42, 46, 48) for quality and ease of interoperability. Hardware is also typically designed and qualified to military and civil aviation standards including environmental standards MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, RTCA DO-160 and RTCA DO-380. The result is a range of products you can trust, developed with the level of care and rigour required by the aerospace and defence industries.
S-PLANE is committed to maintaining a high level of cybersecurity. The first line of defence is to keep our data, as well as the data of our customers and their end-users safe. For this purpose, our company maintains audited UK CE+ certification, and implements additional critical elements of ISO 27001 as part of our internal policies and processes. Cybersecurity also extends to our products, where we follow RTCA DO-326A to prevent malware and unauthorised access to our appliances, per the official compliance requirements of EASA and the FAA. So our customers can rest assured that they can safely use our equipment and can also certify their airborne systems that utilise this equipment. Click here to download our CE+ certificate.
S-PLANE is registered with the South African Directorate for Conventional Arms Control (DCAC) and the South African Council for the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (NPC), with processes in place to comply with all requirements regulating trade in strategic goods and services, as directed under the Wassenaar Arrangement and the MTCR.
