AS9100 Requirements for Aviation, Space, and Defense Organizations

AS9100 defines quality management system requirements for the aviation, space, and defense industries. Core Compliance aerospace consultants have extensive experience to guide your organization through AS9100 Certification within your timeline and budget. AS9100 has added requirements specifically to quality and safety. Consequently, major aerospace manufacturers and suppliers worldwide require compliance and/or registration to AS9100 as a condition of doing business with them. Additionally, it is used and supported by the world’s leading aerospace companies and throughout their supply chains.

Transition to AS9100d

Core Compliance provides a process to update from AS9100c and transition to AS9100d in 60-90 days. The deadline to transition is Sept 15, 2018, thus the audit should be completed and AS9100 Certification received by June 15, 2018. First, we assess your current quality management system against updated requirements, and then establish a clear path to compliance.

The International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) Aerospace & defense industry comprised of 3 sectors (Americas – AAQG, Asia/Pacific – APAQG and Europe – EAQG have made recent changes to AS9100, AS9110, & AS9120 standards. The International Aerospace Quality Group has posted a brief presentation, FAQ’s and comparison between the current and new versions of the aerospace standards on their website.

AS9100d: https://www.sae.org/iaqg/organization/9100.htm
AS9110d: https://www.sae.org/iaqg/organization/9110.htm
AS9120d: https://www.sae.org/iaqg/organization/9120.htm

Benefits of AS9100 certification

There are major benefits of AS9100 Certification, including:

reducing risk of mistakes and fatal failures within your operations for products and services
having an effective quality management system which achieves established objectives
getting a listing in the Online Supplier Information System (OASIS) database
being identified as a preferred supplier and gaining customer and stakeholder trust
continually improving and therefore winning international growth opportunities

Core Compliance has subject matter experts in AS9100 Certification to get your company certified. Certainly, AS9100 Certification establishes your commitment to your organization and suppliers and simultaneously provides credibility to external parties, including clients and stakeholders.

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Road Map for AS9100 Certification

Discovery. Core Compliance reviews the organization’s challenges, driving forces, and goals to understand the high-level context of the project, therefore enabling the development of an effective approach to achieving project objectives. Additionally, we educate key stakeholders in requirements and expected level of effort.

Gap analysis. Core Compliance analyzes the current state of the management system against relevant requirements, consequently establishing the project management plan and road map for key milestones and tasks.

Road Map. The gap analysis report informs the development of the road map, detailing milestones, tasks, and deliverables to achieve project objectives. Key components of the road map include the implementation and training plans.

Development. Core Compliance manages the project plan with your organization’s key stakeholders to perform road map activities, achieve milestones, and complete deliverables. Thereafter, these activities produce your management system to be implemented.

Implementation and training. A key component to the road map is executing the implementation and training plans. This describes the process of making internal and external stakeholders aware of, competent in, and capable of achieving management system objectives, policies, and processes.

Internal audit. Core Compliance performs an audit of your management system to firstly, ensure all requirements are met, secondly, ensure the management system is capable of achieving objectives, and finally, ensure that implementation and training has been effective.

Certification. A certification body, also referred to as a “registrar”, subsequently performs an audit to assess compliance with the standard and the organization’s management system. After successful stage one and two audits, the organization is granted accredited AS9100 Certification from the registrar. The registrar will perform surveillance activities thereafter for 3 years until re-certification is required.