AS9100 Overview

If your organization is engaged in the complex and highly regulated aerospace industry, you cannot miss AS9100 and the role it plays regarding quality management systems. Based on the internationally recognized ISO 9001:2000 quality management system standard, AS9100 adds aerospace-specific requirements related to process and product characteristics that are essential for the organization to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements. Supported globally, AS9100 ensures a uniform approach to quality thus providing a common language across the aerospace industry supply chain.

Introduced by the Society of Automotive Engineers in the U.S., and by the European Association of Aerospace Industries in Europe in 1999, AS9100 provided a framework for the harmonization of different requirements that prevailed within the aerospace industry (e.g., ISO 9001 or Boeing’s D1 – 9000). Having achieved global recognition over the last several years, AS9100 has reached “cruise altitude” in that it has been adopted by almost every major prime manufacturer in the world, not only internally, but also as a “flow-down” requirement.

Maintained by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG), the AS9100 list of stakeholders includes space and defense sectors, civil aviation authorities, accreditation bodies, certification bodies, and the community at large.

AS9100 has also been published in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Russian.

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