Immersive trainingEN 9100 Auditor
EN 9100:2018 · EN 9101:2023
You won’t read the standard. You’ll conduct the audit.
Three days in the role of EN 9100 auditor at an aerospace manufacturer. You question an organisation whose people are played by an artificial intelligence, you write up your findings, and you rule on its fitness for certification.
- 3 days, on site
- 8 participants maximum
- AI-assisted audit simulator
- AQMS auditor equivalence
It all begins in a world that doesn’t exist. That is the condition for learning to work in the real one.
You don’t become an auditor by reading a standard.
Conventional standards training produces surface compliance. Participants can find a clause, phrase a requirement, quote a definition. But faced with a real system - its contradictions, its workarounds, its grey areas - the critical reflex simply isn’t there.
What conventional training installs
Declarative knowledge. You know where the requirement sits. You can rephrase it. You recognise it in a slide deck.
What the field demands
Judgement. Knowing what to ask, of whom, in what order. Telling a minor deviation from a major non-conformity. Defending a finding that will be challenged.
The gap between the two does not close with more theory. It closes with practice under real conditions.
« You don’t master a standard by reading it. You master it by holding it up against the complexity of the real world. »
Immersion is not a wrapper. It is the condition for learning.
We place the learner inside a realistic industrial scenario where they have to analyse, decide and act as they would in the field. Three combined levers, one requirement: engagement.
E-learning
The fundamentals acquired beforehand, at your own pace. Classroom time is reserved for what cannot be learnt alone: judgement calls.
Escape game
Clues to find, evidence to cross-check, a clock running. Looking for information becomes a skill rather than an instruction.
Board game
A physical support that makes decisions, turns and consequences visible. You can see where you stand, and what you have committed to.
This is not a passing fashion.
The design rests on three lines of thought that converge on the same conviction: you only truly learn by committing, and committing means accepting that you may lose or win. That is precisely what a game makes possible.
Pierre Pastré
Professional didactics
Real activity, not theoretical knowledge, is the starting point of professional competence.
David Kolb
Experiential learning
Experience only becomes learning once it has been lived, observed, conceptualised, then played out again.
John Dewey
Learning by doing
You don’t learn to do by listening. You learn to do by doing, and then by reflecting on what you did.
This approach extends the Q-SYNQ® philosophy of QALIA Performance: bringing quality engineering together with an understanding of human dynamics inside organisations.
You are the auditor of Nucleo Dynamics.
One assignment across three days: conduct the EN 9100 audit of an aerospace manufacturer, from preparation through to the decision.
Your role
EN 9100 auditor appointed to Nucleo Dynamics.
Your assignment
Assess the conformity and performance of the system, then rule on its fitness for certification.
Your constraint
People who don’t tell you everything, incomplete evidence, unforeseen events. Just like the field.
13 steps
Day 1 · Day 2 · Day 3Day 1
01Prepare
From framing the assignment to auditing top management: the audit programme, the pre-audit, stage 1, the audit plan and the interview guide.
- 01Setting the context
- 02The audit programme and audit reports
- 03Pre-audit activities
- 04Stage 1 audit activities
- 05The audit plan
- 06The interview guide
- 07Auditing top management
Day 2
02Audit
The opening meeting, then the stage 2 audit on the ground.
- 08The opening meeting
- 09The stage 2 audit
Day 3
03Conclude
Write up the non-conformities, close the audit, produce the report and handle the follow-up.
- 10Writing up non-conformities
- 11The closing meeting
- 12Writing the report
- 13After the audit
The people you question are not role-play. They are played by an AI.
At the heart of the design sits an AI-assisted audit simulator, developed by QALIA Performance within Solariom, our immersive training platform. The audited organisation is embodied by seven interlocutors, each with their function, their remit and their character. You question them out loud. They answer out loud.
A spoken interview, not a form
You ask your questions out loud, in your own words, and the person answers you by speaking. The replies are not scripted: they are built from their role and their context. A badly framed question earns a hollow answer - exactly as in the field.
Your conduct is assessed
The simulator watches not only what you find, but how you look for it: the quality of your questioning, the search for evidence, the way you run the interview.
Unevenly cooperative interlocutors
Each character has a difficulty level. You don’t approach the chief executive the way you approach the sales director. You learn to adapt how you run an interview to whoever is sitting across from you.
The right to get it wrong
You can be wrong, press on, backtrack, start again. Nothing real is at stake, so nothing is held back: that is where competence forms.
An interview extract
Have you ever run into quality failures?
Yes, we have had non-quality situations. For instance, a non-conforming product was released without a complete final inspection, because a documentary sign-off was missed. Its initial criticality was high, at 128.
What we can claim, and what we cannot.
Of the fourteen EN 9100 training providers reviewed, none offers practice other than human role-play on a case study, and none advertises generative artificial intelligence as a teaching method.
We do not claim to have invented AI audit simulation: conversational simulators of this kind have existed since 2024. They cover ISO 9001 and QHSE, explicitly exclude AS9100 and EN 9100, and address companies preparing for certification rather than the training of auditors.
To our knowledge, no single offering brings all three together: EN 9100 coverage for auditor training, interlocutors played by AI with no pre-written dialogue, and structural gamification.
QALIA Performance competitive review, sources consulted on 20 July 2026.
What you will be able to do.
The course objectives, exactly as they appear in the programme.
Conduct an EN 9100 audit
Be able to conduct audits against the requirements of EN 9100:2018, using EN 9101:2023.
Obtain the AQMS equivalence
Obtain an AQMS EN 9100:2018 equivalence - Aerospace Quality Management System.
The essentials.
Duration and format
3 days, on site.
Group size
8 participants maximum.
- Who it is for
- People seeking the AQMS EN 9100 auditor equivalence. People who want to be able to conduct audits against the requirements of EN 9100:2018 using EN 9101:2023.
- Prerequisites
- Experience as an internal QMS auditor, or having completed QMS auditor training. Working knowledge of the requirements of EN 9100:2018. Basic knowledge of ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015.
- Assessment and certificate
- Participants’ knowledge is assessed through a multiple-choice test and practical exercises. The course is sanctioned by a training certificate that takes the assessments into account.
The group is deliberately capped at 8: the design rests on practice under real conditions and on each participant making their own calls.
Ask for dates and detailsWhat participants say about it.
4.98/ 5
average across all the criteria assessed
End-of-course evaluations collected from participants of the EN 9100 Auditor training.
5 / 5
The overall opinion of the course, rated at the maximum by participants.
A majority
of participants asked to go further on the subject after the course.
In participants’ own words
« Using AI for audits is a highly innovative way of learning that lets you step into an audit situation with complete confidence. This course takes you further in understanding the auditor’s job and the EN 9100 standard. »
« The command of the subject, the virtual organisation answering questions directly, and the additions on related topics as the session went along are genuinely stunning. Well done. »
« Very good teaching. Playful and effective for retention. A good balance of practice and theory. The trainers adapted to our company’s subjects and scope. »
« Attractive materials that are a pleasure to use. Varied games that challenge you. Concrete examples. Lively facilitation. A supportive atmosphere. »
And on the other modules in the range
The comments below relate to the “EN 9100, understanding the requirements” course, delivered to Safran’s quality teams on our premises. It is a different module, built on the same immersive approach.
« An immersive approach and a scenario entirely suited to our industry. »
« A great course that teaches through play while still taking the time to work through practical cases. »
One design, several standards.
The EN 9100 Auditor course belongs to a range of immersive programmes built on the same pedagogical foundation.
- EN 9100:2018 / EN 9101:2023The module shown here
EN 9100 Auditor
Assessing conformity and performance. The participant takes on the role of auditor at Nucleo Dynamics, questions interlocutors played by an AI, and rules on fitness for certification.
- EN 9100:2018
EN 9100, understanding the requirements
Two competing teams, NOVASYN and LYRA, mandated to win a critical industrial contract. The goal: to demonstrate, with evidence, their command of the clauses of EN 9100.
- ISO 10012
ISO 10012, mastering measurement
“Project Solariom” scenario: the participant is appointed by Phoenix Corp to establish a robust measurement management system ahead of its industrial rollout.
- GUM / Métrologie
Evaluating measurement uncertainty
“QALIA Tech” learning game: a dedicated board, mechanics and visual world, to make workable the subject everyone keeps putting off.
- In development
Corrective action
The next programme in the range, currently in development.
Let’s talk about what you need.
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