AS9120 Certification Process

  Aerospace aviation distributors and suppliers looking to start the AS9120 certification process, Core Compliance provides consulting services to ensure compliance. We focus your organization’s goals to meet your customer & regulatory requirements in designing a compliant AS9120B quality management system within your timeline & budget.

AS9120B is the latest revision that outlines the company-level requirements to certification based on a standard published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) titled “Quality Management Systems-Aerospace Requirements for Stockist Distributors. SAE manages this standard which is regulated by the IAQG (International Aerospace Quality Group).

Core Compliance consultants ensure compliance for the following updated standards:

AS9100 AS9120 Requirements

 Core Compliance provides onsite and remote consulting services to AS9100 AS9120 requirements, no matter what stage you are in on your path to compliance. Our aerospace consultants educate your organization requirements, process to certification.

Results of implementing AS9100 requirements: 

• Original Equipment Manufacturers OEM’s are requiring their suppliers & distributors to become AS9120B certified
• Statutory & Regulatory requirements to products & services
• Quality Management System organization is consistently capable of providing products and services that meet customer requirements
• Supplier Management 
• Product Safety
  Safety and reliability of products areas with consideration of current AS9100 requirements to ensure product safety during the entire life-cycle.
• Risk
  Risk management requirements have been merged with the new ISO 9001 requirements on risk-based thinking, which permeates the entire management system.
• Preventive Action
  Develop preventive action procedures to risk and opportunities, and nonconformity and corrective action clauses. 
• Counterfeit Parts
  Process to identify & establish basic requirements appropriate to the product.
• Configuration Management
  AS9100 clause to address stakeholder needs to specify requirements in more simplified terms.

Road Map to AS9100 Certification 

Road Map to AS9100 certification is a two-part process:

Step 1- Preparation Core Compliance educates companies on expectations for ISO requirements to A9100 and lays out the road map with objectives and milestones. We work with designated team members in providing an educational training approach to be taken for buy-in throughout the company employees. We coordinate with the road map with designated representatives onsite consultation.

Discovery- Gathering current related ISO documentation onsite related to ISO requirements, along with providing procedures, work instructions, forms/exhibits.

Gap Analysis- Current state of Quality Management System for Aerospace compared to ISO requirements. Update road map based upon findings for clear next steps and milestones for ISO certification. On completion of approved management system, we move to implementation.

Implementation/Training- of AS9100 quality management system with company and provide onsite training.

Internal Audit- Education and training with a mock-audit for preparation with staff for Registrar Audit

Step 2- A certification body, also referred to as a “registrar”, performs an audit to assess compliance with the standard and the organization’s declared management system. Upon a successful audit, the organization is granted a certificate of compliance from the trusted third party registrar. The organization undergoes additional but lesser surveillance audits at least annually thereafter for 3 years until the certification then expires and requires a re-certification.