About Precision Insights
Practical aerospace quality expertise built on more than 25 years of experience
Precision Insights was created to help organisations strengthen their quality systems, improve operational performance and meet the expectations of demanding customers and regulated markets.
My background spans more than 25 years in aerospace quality, standards implementation and business improvement. I have worked across multiple parts of the aerospace supply chain and supported organisations in building practical systems that work in the real world.
That means combining compliance with clarity, process discipline with usability, and improvement activity with real business value.
Quality systems
Support with practical, effective systems aligned to business needs.
Standards & approvals
Experience with aerospace standards, approvals and customer expectations.
Process improvement
Strong focus on process mapping, control and sustainable improvement.
Root cause analysis
Structured problem solving and corrective action that gets to the real cause.
Specialisms
Where I add value
I work with organisations that need quality systems and processes to be both compliant and genuinely effective. The focus is always on practical implementation, clearer control and lasting improvement.
Quality management systems
Development, implementation and improvement of management systems that are usable, proportionate and aligned to business operations.
AS9100 and ISO 9001
Support with understanding requirements, addressing gaps and putting structured systems in place to meet recognised standards.
Process mapping and process improvement
Clarifying how work really flows through a business, identifying weaknesses, and improving process effectiveness and accountability.
Root cause analysis and corrective action
Applying disciplined methods to identify underlying causes, strengthen containment, and improve the quality of corrective action.
Operational and supply chain quality
Experience of quality challenges across stockholding, subcontract processing, machining and broader supply chain interfaces.
Approvals and customer confidence
Support with building systems and evidence that stand up to customer scrutiny, external audit and approval requirements.
Approach
How I work
The aim is not simply to create documentation. It is to help businesses put in place systems and ways of working that people can understand, use and maintain.
Practical and hands-on
I focus on what works in practice. That means helping businesses translate standards and expectations into clear processes, sensible controls and manageable documentation.
Built around real organisations
Good systems have to work for the people using them. I help shape approaches that reflect the size, complexity and maturity of the organisation rather than applying unnecessary bureaucracy.
Structured problem solving
Whether the issue is nonconformance, process weakness or system immaturity, I bring a disciplined approach to problem definition, analysis, action planning and follow-through.
Experience-backed guidance
My advice is grounded in experience across aerospace quality leadership, approvals, customer expectations and operational improvement, not just interpretation of a standard in isolation.
Experience
Experience that underpins the work
My background includes leadership and quality management roles across different parts of the aerospace supply chain, including responsibility for systems, approvals, customer requirements and improvement activity.
Director
Precision Insights Limited
Established Precision Insights to provide focused support in quality systems, standards implementation and process improvement, drawing on broad aerospace quality experience.
Head of Quality
thyssenkrupp Aerospace
Responsible for quality leadership across multiple UK sites, including customer-facing quality assurance, operational quality matters and support for complex aerospace supply chain activities.
Quality Manager
Aviation Metals
Led site quality management activities, supported approvals, and drove improvement in quality performance within an aerospace materials and processing environment.
Technical Manager
Bodycote Heat Treatments Limited
Worked within a technically demanding special process environment, supporting quality, compliance and customer expectations in a highly controlled sector.
Experience also includes working with customer and regulatory expectations involving organisations such as Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, GKN and others, together with managing approvals and quality requirements in SME and supply chain environments.
Get in touch
Looking for support with quality systems, standards or process improvement?
Whether you need help strengthening an existing system, preparing for certification, improving process performance or addressing specific quality challenges, Precision Insights can provide practical support.