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Agreed. I've worked in a company that was AS9001 certified, and pretty much the first things a quality auditor would have wanted to look at would be non-conformances and concessions. With than number of missing signatures we'd have been skinned alive, and it would likely have prompted the auditor to then turn the place upside down looking for more problems.

That would then have produced major failings in the audit, if not the outright revocation of the quality accreditation, which I would then expect to be followed up on by an audit from the customer (which in the case of TFA would be Rolls Royce), asking some rather uncomfortable questions of the management, examining whether the inter-company concession process was being adhered to, and perhaps reflecting internally (i.e. within RR) - "Do we think these folks are the right people to be making these parts for us?"

From what I've read here it seems to me that Rolls Royce were astonishingly lax in not riding their subcontractors nearly hard enough, quality wise.