Composites manufacturing leader Composite Resources has announced the recruitment of Bill Edwards to head the company’s Quality department, and to ensure the company’s total compliance with all pertinent industry standards. Edwards, a veteran of both the aerospace industry and of composite manufacturing, brings more than 25 years of experience to his new role as Quality Manager.
Composite Resources, a composites manufacturing company that was founded in 1993, provides products to a diverse range of clients, but much of its work is done for companies in the aerospace vertical. As such, in 2009, Composite Resources instituted formal quality control programs, attaining both ISO 9001 and AS9100 certifications. The former entails routine audits to ensure that the company’s products are made in compliance with the industry’s standards of practice; the latter is an even more rigorous and detailed set of quality controls, regulating the top aerospace manufacturing companies globally. Edwards’ role is to maintain both programs.
“Essentially, the job of the Quality team is to manage all company resources—which include both people and technologies—and to ensure that we’re creating the best possible products, and doing so using the materials and the standards that are expected of us,” comments Edwards. The day-to-day work of the Quality Manager includes auditing, offering customer support, and managing the company’s team of five quality inspectors.
According to the company’s Operations Manager, Donnette Brock, Edwards’ role is pivotal not just for ensuring compliance with all relevant standards of quality and transparency, but also for maintaining the satisfaction of its clients. “What Bill brings to the company is not just compliance with these quality programs we have initiated, but also the upkeep of our own high standards of quality and customer satisfaction,” she remarks. Indeed, though many of the company’s quality certifications are specific to the aerospace industry, Composite Resources applies them across the board—including to products made for its clients in the auto racing sector.
To Composite Resources, Edwards brings a full decade of composites experience, 15 years in the defense and aerospace sector, and a total of 25 years in manufacturing. He has previously held positions in the Quality departments of major companies such as Cobham Composites and General Dynamics.
While some of these companies are larger than Composite Resources, Edwards says the Rock Hill, South Carolina-based manufacturer is on equal footing in terms of its commitment to quality. “I was initially drawn to Composite Resources because of the smaller size, which offers extra nimbleness and flexibility as we seek to address the needs of our clients,” he says. “However, what I am more and more impressed with is the level of innovation on display here, as well as the acumen of the management team.”
Composite Resources maintains both its industry quality certifications and a flawless customer satisfaction rate.
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Composite Resources is a solutions-driven engineering and manufacturing company, based in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The company applies its prototyping, design, and manufacturing capabilities to products for clients in the aerospace, defense, and autosport sectors, among others. A leading composite manufacturing company, Composite Resources works primarily with carbon fiber. The company is ISO 9001 and ASP9100 certified.
Company Name: Composite ResourcesContact Person: Donnette Brock
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Phone: 803-366-9700
Address:485 Lakeshore Parkway
City: Rock Hill
State: SC
Country: United States
Website: http://www.composite-resources.com/
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