Quality Management
Our policies, quality management system and certificates
Our Policies
Akana Engineering designs, manufactures, inspects and delivers on time high-quality products and services that meet the requests and requirements of its customers in the domestic and international defence, aviation and space industries, in compliance with the applicable legal and regulatory requirements and international standards.
We act with a continuous improvement and right-first-time approach in order to increase quality, productivity, efficiency and added value, to minimise dependency on foreign sources, to continuously improve customer satisfaction, to manage customer feedback effectively and to use our resources efficiently.
We pursue all of our objectives within a production culture that is respectful and attentive to human health, occupational safety and the environment, taking into account the needs, well-being and satisfaction of our internal stakeholders.
Every Akana Engineering employee is responsible for ensuring that the product designed and manufactured is produced at the best quality and at the lowest cost.
Our Mission
- To carry out R&D work that meets customer needs on time, at the highest quality and efficiency, to produce original engineering solutions and to develop advanced technologies
- To implement engineering solutions that comply with international standards and technological developments
- To specialise to a level that can create a brand in its field by transforming technology into products
Our Vision
- To be a sustainable strategic solution partner for the national defence, aviation and space industries
- To be a competitive and reliable national subsystem designer and supplier
- To create international brands in our fields of expertise
Our Scope
The design and manufacture of special-purpose machinery and facilities for the needs of the domestic and international defence and aviation industries, focusing in particular on energetic material and raw material production, and on the design and manufacture of disposal and test equipment.
Our Commitments
- To comply with the legal and other requirements relating to the environment and occupational health and safety, and to perform successfully towards continuous development and improvement
- To identify, prevent, reduce and eliminate the hazards that may lead to environmental incidents, occupational diseases and work accidents
- To take the necessary measures to prevent injury and ill health and to provide safe and healthy working conditions
- To minimise our waste and reuse it efficiently
- To use our energy and natural resources efficiently
- To align with the strategic purpose and context of our company and with the nature of our environmental and OHS risks and opportunities
- To raise sustainable environmental and occupational health and safety awareness and culture to the highest level by assessing risks and opportunities and taking into account the needs and expectations of our interested parties
- To continuously improve and develop our environmental and OHS performance under the leadership of our top management and with the contribution of all our employees, in order to protect our natural environment, prevent pollution and eliminate OHS hazards
- To secure the continuity of management system performance and the availability of resources in line with our environmental management and OHS objectives, through the participation of our employees and the leadership of top management
- To inform, train and monitor our employees and suppliers affected by our environmental and OHS activities, and to ensure that our system is continuously reviewed
- To comply with legal and other requirements in identifying and managing environmental risks and hazards
- To create sustainable added value at the highest level
Quality Management System
- Fulfills the requirements of the standards to which it is responsible for
- AS 9100:2018
- ISO 9001:2015
- ISO 45001:2018
- ISO 14001:2015
- Continues throughout the product life cycle,
- It depends on the principle of continuous improvement according to the expectations of the stakeholders,
- Customer and project requirements
- Subcontractor requests
- Employee satisfaction, OHS and Environment
- Compliance with regulations
- Natural sustainability
Engineering and design activities in Akana constitute the most important and central business steps and are at the basis of our company's value creation mechanism. Based on this; It is structured in a way that does not compromise quality in design and continuous improvement processes are defined.
Our quality activities in production consist of three stages that complement each other and cover the entire production process with the zero defect principle:
- Input Quality Control
- Process Quality Control
- Final Quality Control
Our quality team, which constantly improves and grows, is one of our most important resources. The main measuring equipment we use in order to make quality effective and continuous in production are:
- CNC CMM
- All CMM
- Spectrometer
- Profile Projector
- Precision Hole Measuring System
- Hardness Testing Equipment
- Height Measuring Equipment
As Akana Engineering, we manage our supply system with the belief that one of the most important elements that make up the ecosystem around us is our suppliers and with the principle of 'cooperation with the supplier'.
In particular, the approved supplier lists of the main companies in the defense industry are taken into consideration, and diversification and continuity in the supply chain is aimed by conducting supplier management within our own organization. Our main objectives, which also show the efficiency of our supply management, are:
- Timely production, assembly, testing and commissioning processes of products
- Minimizing the supply risk impact in project calendars
- Providing cost effective solutions
- Providing service at the right time and in the right place within the scope of after-sales and ELD
Configuration management in Akana Engineering;
- Runs through the processes we have created according to the EIA-649 standard,
- Continues throughout the product life cycle,
- It is applied in various stages:
- Configuration definition
- Configuration control
- Configuration status assessment and audit
- Functional configuration check (FCA)
- Physical configuration check (PCA)