AUTOMATING COMPLIANCE-READY DATA FLOWS IN ITAR AND ISO 9001 CERTIFIED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

Abstract

The increasingly complicated nature of the regulated manufacturing environment demands strong data management architectures on the basis of international standards management. In particular, the defense and aerospace sectors, where the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the ISO 9001 quality management standards apply, face big issues related to the provision of secure, traceable, and audit-ready data streams within the enterprise systems. The possibility of non-compliance, inefficiency, and slow audits exists with paper-based processes and system design fragmentation. The paper proposes a model of automation of compliance-ready data flows, integrating enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution system (MES), and product lifecycle management (PLM) settings with compliance engines based on rules, metadata-driven traceability, and automated audit records. It is an ITAR and ISO 9001-based approach to secure data management, real-time authentication, and coordination of the working processes. Through this automation, organizations can enhance compliance checks, reduce overhead in manual applications, and build a base of scalability of Industry 4.0-enabled manufacturing systems.