Engine Components International, Inc. (ECI) is a private aviation piston engine manufacturer.[ citation needed ] It was founded in 1943 as Pennington Channelcromium Co. to support the Army Air Force and Navy during World War II.
ECi certified its Quality Management System to the ISO 9001:2000 international standard and AS9100 aerospace standard. Recertified to the ISO 9001:2000 standard in Feb 2008.
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECi O-320 | DATE | Number built | Certified 154-167 hp |
| ECi OX-320 | DATE | Number built | Experimental 154-167 hp |
| ECi IOX-320 | DATE | Number built | Experimental 156-169 hp |
| ECi O-340 | DATE | Number built | STC Certified 175-180 hp |
| ECi OX-340 | DATE | Number built | Experimental ATSM Certified 180 hp |
| ECi O-360 | DATE | Number built | Certified 175-189 hp |
| ECi OX-360 | DATE | Number built | Experimental 175-189 hp |
| ECi IOX-360 | DATE | Number built | Experimental 178-192 hp |
| ECi OX-370 | DATE | Number built | Experimental 192 hp |
| ECi IOX-370 | DATE | Number built | Experimental 205 hp |
| ECi IOX-409 | DATE | Number built | Experimental 230 hp |
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A quality management system (QMS) is a collection of business processes focused on consistently meeting customer requirements and enhancing their satisfaction. It is aligned with an organization's purpose and strategic direction (ISO9001:2015). It is expressed as the organizational goals and aspirations, policies, processes, documented information and resources needed to implement and maintain it. Early quality management systems emphasized predictable outcomes of an industrial product production line, using simple statistics and random sampling. By the 20th century, labor inputs were typically the most costly inputs in most industrialized societies, so focus shifted to team cooperation and dynamics, especially the early signaling of problems via a continual improvement cycle. In the 21st century, QMS has tended to converge with sustainability and transparency initiatives, as both investor and customer satisfaction and perceived quality is increasingly tied to these factors. Of QMS regimes, the ISO 9000 family of standards is probably the most widely implemented worldwide – the ISO 19011 audit regime applies to both, and deals with quality and sustainability and their integration.
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