Consulting for Management Systems in the Defence Industry and Defence Technology (AQAP & ISO)

CONSILIO ET OPERA GMBH supports companies in the defence industry and their tier suppliers — for example from the mechanical engineering, metalworking, electrical, and chemical industries — with consulting on management systems based on ISO and AQAP standards.

Defence & Military Technology | Compliance & Integration Excellence — AQAP & ISO Consulting in Times of Change

CONSILIO ET OPERA GMBH provides consulting for companies in the defence and armaments industry with a focus on quality management & quality assurance, environmental management, sustainability management, energy management and occupational health & safety.

In consulting we deliberately do not take over operational implementation. We develop strategic solutions, optimise organisation & processes and enable your teams to execute effectively — support for self-sufficiency.

Your advantage: you keep execution in your hands. We deliver analysis, decision templates, methods, sample documents and coaching — focused on the typical requirements of defence technology, AQAP conformity, ISO compliance and therefore effective quality assurance.

Within the defence context, CONSILIO ET OPERA pays particular attention to AQAP requirements (e.g. AQAP-2110, AQAP-2210, AQAP-2310), relevant standards (ISO 9001, EN/AS 9100, ISO 14001, EMAS, ISO 50001, ISO 45001) and key frameworks such as CSRD with ESRS reporting standards. These are integrated into auditable, overarching compliance to meet legal requirements and build trust with customers, partners and authorities.

Overall, our consulting services are bundled into two core areas: first, the strategic and system level with a focus on AQAP / ISO compliance; second, the preparation of operational quality assurance and the defence-sector supply chain.

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Strategy, IMS & AQAP Consulting in Defence — Ensuring ISO & AQAP Compliance

CONSILIO ET OPERA’s defence consulting strengthens strategy, organisation and your Integrated Management System (IMS) — compliant with AQAP and ISO. We determine maturity and gaps, define governance and compliance guardrails and deliver prioritised actions including a roadmap with emphasis on capability building and self-directed implementation.

Maturity & Gap Analyses for AQAP and ISO (incl. Roadmap)

Assessment of your maturity against AQAP-2110 / AQAP-2210 / AQAP-2310 and ISO 9001 / 14001 / 50001 / 45001; identification of gaps, prioritised measures, quick wins and a practical roadmap to audit and certification readiness

Strategy & Organisational Consulting for Integrated Management Systems (IMS)

Design, optimisation and scaling of your IMS: clear roles & responsibilities, defined interfaces, robust governance and a process landscape — for effective, standards-compliant operations

Defence Compliance Consulting (audit-ready & evidence-based)

Derivation of customer and authority requirements into policies and procedures; establishing demonstrable compliance including audit readiness and documented conformity

Risk-Based Approach in Defence Projects (FMEA, KPIs, Lessons Learned)

From method selection to effective control: implementation of FMEA, structured lessons learned, KPI-driven reporting, a maintained risk register and clear escalation mechanisms

Document & Evidence Architecture (auditable compliance, not paperwork overload)

Principles for structure, versioning, approvals and responsibilities for a revision-proof repository — lean, transparent and auditable instead of document-heavy

KPIs & Management Reviews (KPI Sets & Visualisation)

Tailored KPI sets, dashboards/visualisation and an appropriate cadence of reviews to verify effectiveness — for lived (not merely formal) compliance and continual improvement

Quality Assurance, Audits & Supply Chain in Defence Technology — AQAP Consulting for Compliance and Continuous Improvement

Effective quality assurance (QA) is critical in defence technology for delivery reliability, approvals and trust. CONSILIO ET OPERA sharpens your QA processes, strengthens supplier qualification and audit readiness, and anchors KPIs, management reviews and change enablement — practical, AQAP / ISO compliant and geared to sustained implementation by your team.

QA Process Design for Defence Technology (AQAP / ISO)

Inspection and acceptance processes, configuration & change management (CM / ECM), RACI models and process maps — standards-compliant with AQAP-2110 /-2310, ISO 9001 and EN / AS 9100

Supply Chain & Supplier Management in the Defence Industry

Supplier qualification, assessment criteria & models, audit guides and flow-down in line with AQAP-2110, AQAP-2310, ISO 9001 and AS 9100 / EN 9100 — ready to use for Procurement, Supplier Development and QA

Audit Preparation & Coaching (ISO, AQAP, AS 9100, EN 9100)

1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-party readiness: mock audits & interview training, standards-compliant question sets and evidence logic — conduct and certification remain with you

Training & Workshops for Defence Compliance

Compact, practice-oriented and defence-specific — training and workshops with checklists & templates for AQAP, ISO 9001 and EN 9100 / AS 9100 for management and specialist functions

Change Enablement in Defence Technology

Communication and enablement concepts, quick wins and governance — ensuring that improvements from audits and projects become effective in day-to-day operations

CONSILIO ET OPERA GUARANTEES

Benefit from additional guarantees that safeguard the quality, reliability and efficiency of your projects in the long term.

WARRANTY OF CONFIDENCE

If your company has signed a service contract and is not a 100 % satisfied with our performance, it is free to terminate it with immediate effect.

TELEPHONE SUPPORT

Once your company has given a mandate for consulting or project / interim management it will receive a voucher for 2 hours of telephone consultation in addition to each weekly working contingent (40 hours) ordered. A voucher can be redeemed within one year of issue.

OUR QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

PERSONNEL SEARCH

Our strategic alliance partners include independent personnel agencies and freelancers. This offers you the advantage that we can support your personnel search through our network also when you are dealing with large projects. The precondition for this, however, is that our company will be engaged in the same project as these additional external human resources.