AS9100 Certification - Aerospace
Certification for AS9100 Aerospace Standard is based on the ISO 9001 quality requirements and demonstrates your ability to consistently provide products that meet customer and regulatory requirements for Aviation, Space and Defense Organizations.
What is AS9100 | Quality Management?
The AS9100 is a international aerospace standard that specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization wishes to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. Many of the aerospace industry’s manufacturers and suppliers around the world require AS9100 Certification as a condition of doing business with them.
Why Get AS9100 Certification?
Improve Performance
Increase Customer Satisfaction
Manage for Sustained Success
Reduce Costly Errors
Drive Sales & Profitability
Why is AS9100 important?
The aerospace community has specific requirements that need to be taken into account, and the QMS needs to incorporate these critical requirements. AS9100 is for aerospace suppliers, and your customers want to know that you are taking the steps necessary not only to meet these aerospace-specific requirements, but to improve the quality of your products and services and to enhance customer satisfaction, and implementing a QMS according to the requirements of AS9100 can do just that. By managing, controlling, and auditing your own processes, as well as having an outside certification body verifying that your QMS meets the requirements, your customers can know that everything is well in hand.
As the internationally recognized standard for aerospace Quality Management Systems, AS9100 is based on seven quality management principles that are recognized as being necessary to make a Quality Management System work. Your customers will be content to know that your QMS is also based on these principles.
There are 4 key requirements in AS9100 designed specifically for the aerospace industry:
1. Planning for Product Realization
AS9100 puts an additional emphasis on risk management and assessment “in the project and configuration management aspects of production and control of work transfers between facilities and suppliers,” Quality writes.
2. Purchasing/Purchased Product
These requirements deal with supplier control, including information presented to vendors and controls placed on purchased products that could be released prior to verification.
3. Design and Development
This section involves the steps for design verification and validation along with rules for documentation and testing on both stages.
Design verification involves crafting a piece on paper and calculating all specifications, inputs, metrics and regulations to see where the product meets – or needs to meet – industry expectations.
Validation involves the formation of a prototype – a first production unit or engineered model – to illustrate the initial run of a new and complex design.
4. Product Monitoring and Measurement Rules
These regulations cover quality measuring capacities, including measures for rejection and for non-conforming processes.
In 2018, Revision D added the following elements to AS9100:
Product Safety
- Counterfeit Parts Prevention
- Risk clause was merged with the new ISO 9001 risk requirements along with an increased emphasis on risks in operational processes
- Awareness clause was added with reinforced requirements for awareness of individual contribution to product and service quality and safety along with ethical behavior
- Human Factors are included as a consideration in nonconformity management and corrective action
- Configuration Management was clarified and improved to address stakeholder needs
In large part, due to Specialty Ring Products’ adherence to the requirements of AS9100, SRP is recognized as a leading supplier of quality forged rings for the aerospace industry.
As such, we are dedicated to continuously enhancing our level of products. It’s not only what AS9100 requires, it’s what our customers have come to expect.
AS9100 Benefits
The AS9100D standard is based on the ISO 9001:2015 standard. It provides a straightforward framework to add AS 9100 Industry Specific Requirements.
A requirement to be included in the Aerospace Industry supply chain.
Third-Party affirmation of your dedication to supply high-quality products and services.
Both the AS 9100 and ISO 9001:2015 focus on Customer Satisfaction
Registered Access to Aerospace Supply Chains through IAQG Oasis Certified Suppliers Directory
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Demonstrate your ability to consistently provide products that meet customer and regulatory requirements. Talk with a qualified Strider International representative to learn more about our AS9100 certification and how you can benefit from AS9100 qualifications!