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AS9100 Certification Standard

Improve the quality of your aerospace service management system with AS9100 Certification Standard.

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The AS9100 - The Benchmark for Aerospace Quality Standard

Safety is the highest priority for airplane manufacturers, and quality is the key to ensuring safety in aerospace products.

The aerospace industry, which includes aircraft (commercial and defense) as well as spacecraft, is considered an evolving industry today due to technological advancements. As the demand for aviation and space exploration activities is growing, the companies are required to conform to the stringent regulations of quality and safety to sustain their position in the industry.

AS9100 certification sets the benchmark for quality and safety in the aerospace industry. It is a specifically designed standard for the aerospace industry and underpins the requirements for establishing a QMS (Quality Management System) that helps manufacturers or suppliers to meet the safety and quality regulations.

Don’t be surprised if meeting this standard becomes a priority, as the largest producers in the industry and across the world are aiming to have a higher percentage of their suppliers certified to AS9100. Also, note that it is developed as an improvement strategy from the IAQG (International Aerospace Quality Group) and the strategy aimed at getting “90% of the aviation, space, and defense supply chain certified“.

Why Achieve the AS9100 Certification for Your Business?

  • AS9100 is the benchmark standard that provides your customers with a better and simpler way of determining whether you are a viable and attractive alternative to their other suppliers.
  • Consider the effect suppliers have on a product. Across the supply chain, there are so many things that could go wrong, and their effect can be devastating to the end products. Therefore, businesses seek suppliers that comply with quality regulations to feel more confident in the quality of products or services they provide.
  • Achieving AS9100 certification instills higher confidence in your own business set-up, and it helps you deliver and maintain the quality of your aerospace products or parts. The certification enables you to meet widespread requirements related to product safety, raw material conformity, configuration management, customer complaint management, and more. Thus, achieving it means that your business meets the benchmark for a supplier to the aerospace industry.
  • Poor quality in the aerospace industry can and will affect the viability and longevity of your organization. The risk of mistakes and non-conformances must be minimized. AS9100 provides your organization with guidance in developing a solid and effective management system, thereby improving the viability and longevity of your organization.
  • You can get in front of your competitors in the aerospace industry by achieving the certification with the help of AS9100 certification consultants. Many organizations in the aerospace industry are choosing certified suppliers over uncertified ones. They prefer to work with those who have invested in their management system, ensuring safety and quality. Thus, the certification has become a necessity in such a backdrop. Becoming compliant and getting AS9100 certified leads to you number of advantages, among which access to global aerospace markets is the prime one.

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AS9100 Standard

Best practices that the AS9100 Certification Standard promotes are:

  • Effective quality management
  • Risk management
  • Prevention of counterfeit parts
  • Operational efficiency through continuous improvement and standardized procedures
  • Ethical compliance
  • Supplier control
  • Documentation
  • Management commitment
  • Employee engagement

To get the AS9100 certification standard, your business needs to consider the following aspects:

If you want to adopt the standard, you need to learn its key aspects first. The key aspects are-

Risk-Based Approach

AS9100 Standard compels the organizations to employ a risk-based management process while making any major decision.

Product Safety

AS9100D comprises two sub-clauses. The first sub-clause insists on product safety. This standard requires suppliers to demonstrate the initiatives they employ for product safety. The second sub-clause of this standard is “Counterfeit Product.” This clause attaches importance to counterfeit parts prevention. Here, you need to concentrate on training, review, verification programs, supplier management, and traceability.

Awareness

Organizations must ensure people are aware of how their processes impact quality and which actions they need to adopt further to meet the customer requirements.

Human Factors

Suppliers should take into account certain human factors, such as fatigue, complacency, and stress, while addressing the non-conformities and corrective actions.

Organizational Context

The standard makes manufacturers demonstrate how the quality management system (QMS) accounts for all of their relevant stakeholders and business associations. Apart from customers and your business, interested parties may include regulators, suppliers, and the local community.

Accountability and Performance Evaluation

These days, many standards are inclining towards management accountability. Auditors expect to see a documented management review. They want to know whether you are meeting targets or not. They want to know what steps you are taking when you are not meeting the targets.

With all these key aspects covered by the AS9100 standard, your business can get the following rewarding benefits when it gets certified -

  • Enhances your quality management processes and helps to deliver high-quality products that meet the expectations of customers, industry regulations, and legal compliance obligations
  • Helps to monitor processes to find out inefficiencies, optimize the use of resources, and make improvements continually
  • Increases consistency in the processes, reduces errors or reworks, and saves operational costs
  • Opens doors to win more business contracts by demonstrating your commitment to providing quality and safe products/parts
  • Gets your business recognized globally, which enhances the marketability of your products
  • Strengthens relationships with the stakeholders that provide your business with more prospects for future associations and growth

Getting started with the AS9100 certification procedure might seem complex to you, but our expert AS9100 consultants will make it easier for you with trouble-free steps.

Consultation:

In the first step, we would discuss with you the details of the AS9100 requirements and provide consultation to help you understand their relevance in your business and processes. Our consultants would then help you plan the next steps to meet the criteria for successful certification within a decided timeframe.

Document Your Information Security Management System:

Our consultants will help you determine the scope and objectives of your management system. Following that, they would evaluate your existing processes to determine how they will interact with the management system. Subsequently, they would help you to prepare a document of the processes, as required by the standard. The document establishes how your employees should execute the processes to adhere to the standard’s requirements.

Implementation of the management system:

Once the documentation is complete, you need to provide training to the employees to ensure the system is practically put into place. Training is necessary to ensure the system is efficiently integrated throughout your organization and there is consistency in the roles of employees.

Internal Audit:

Our team also has expert auditors who will analyze your processes and management system to find out any inconsistencies and nonconformities. They would then provide recommendations to correct or fix those identified issues to ensure your business is fully compliant and certification-ready.

Certification:

You need to apply for certification to a certification body. They would perform an external audit and get your business certified after affirming the compliance of your management system. Our consultants will help to maintain your certification in the long run by periodically following up and performing surveillance audits.

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Lowest cost

We deliver a lean, custom fit ISO compliant management system, saving significantly on the often-overlooked, but usually most expensive part of ISO compliance- the implementation stage.

Speed

Everybody knows how lengthy an ISO certification process is! It is difficult to be motivated and focused if certification takes too long. Don’t worry! We can help you gain certification within 30 days, or often in less time than that!

Resources to obtain and maintain certification

ISO compliance does not need to cost a lot to maintain! We minimize the need for internal resources with a lean and compliant ISO quality consulting approach.

Ongoing support

Compliancehelp Consulting LLC can help you manage ongoing compliance on your own, or you can team up with us. Our personalized ISO certification services include monitoring and internal audits as well. Our experts can monitor your Quality Management System to ensure consistency, improvement, and compliance. We can also help in making it compliant with future updates to the ISO standard a cinch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is AS9100 certification?

The AS9100 standard was developed by the joint efforts of international authorities, i.e., IAQG (International Aerospace Quality Group) and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers International), to help aerospace businesses create a strong and standardized QMS. It is recognized globally by organizations in the aviation, space research, and defense segments. Businesses involved in the manufacturing, supplying, or servicing of aerospace products or parts need this certification to prove that their products meet quality regulations, safety, and legal compliance. So becoming AS9100 certified makes them eligible as suppliers in the aerospace supply chain and gains the confidence of giant organizations in the aviation, space, and defense sectors.

How much does the AS9100 certification cost?

There is no such fixed cost for getting your business AS9100 certified. It primarily includes two types of costs. First is the cost for implementation of a compliant QMS, and the second is the economic cost, which includes consultation expenses, fees of the certification body, etc. Both costs depend on the size of the aerospace business and the current state of its QMS.

If your aerospace company already has a good QMS in place, you need some adjustments or improvements to make it compliant with AS9100 requirements. In that case, implementation costs will be considerably lower. However, if you need to implement a QMS from the beginning, it will require more labor, time, and resources, which results in higher implementation costs. Also, a small company, whether it has a QMS or not, will always take less time in imparting AS9100 training and achieving compliance than a large-sized company. Therefore, the cost of achieving certification is much lower for a small business than for a large multifaceted company.

How to qualify for AS9100 certification?

Clearly, to make your business qualified for aerospace certification, you need to have an established and competent QMS in place. Also, there are no particular types of aerospace businesses that can qualify for the certification. Any business across the aerospace industry, whether it is engaged in designing, engineering, servicing, or distribution of aerospace products or parts, can qualify for it.

What's new with AS9100 compared to ISO 9001?

AS9100 is based on the general quality standard, ISO 9001, which is most accepted worldwide by all types of businesses. There have been new requirements added to the ISO 9001 standard, which make it specific to aerospace quality management. The most important additional requirements involve product safety, product realization and planning, counterfeit parts, configuration management, supplier management, configuration management, raw material testing, and human factors.

Is AS9100 certification right for my organization?

AS9100 certification is absolutely the right thing for your organization if you want it to exist as a part of the global aerospace supply chain. It is the benchmark standard for the aerospace industry, and achieving it shall demonstrate your organization’s commitment to meeting the highest quality standard. It would hence assure the safety and credibility of your products, enabling you to become a supplier to the industry leaders or giant organizations.