AS9100

AS9100
Quality Management Systems - Requirements for Aviation, Space and Defense Organizations
First published 1998 (1998)[1]
Latest version Revision C
2009
Organization Society of Automotive Engineers
Base standards ISO 9001
Domain Aerospace Industry
Website standards.sae.org/as9100c/

AS9100 is a widely adopted and standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry. It was released in October, 1999, by the Society of Automotive Engineers and the European Association of Aerospace Industries.[1][2]

AS9100 replaces the earlier AS9000 and fully incorporates the entirety of the current version of ISO 9000, while adding requirements relating to quality and safety. Major aerospace manufacturers and suppliers worldwide require compliance and/or registration to AS9100 as a condition of doing business with them.[3][4]

History

Prior to development of AS9100 standards for Quality Management Systems, the U.S. military applied two specifications to supplier quality and inspection programs, respectively, MIL-Q-9858A, Quality Program Requirements,[5] and MIL-I-45208A, Military Specification: Inspection System Requirements.[6] For years these specifications had represented the basic tenets of the aerospace industry. However, when the U.S. government adopted ISO 9000, it withdrew those two quality standards. Large aerospace companies then began requiring their suppliers to develop quality programs based on ISO 9000.[7]

AS9000 (1997) Aerospace Basic Quality System Standard

As aerospace suppliers soon found that ISO 9000 (1994) did not address the specific requirements of their customers, including the DoD, NASA, FAA and commercial, aerospace companies including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, GE Aircraft Engines and Pratt & Whitney developed AS9000, based on ISO 9000, to provide a specific quality management standard for the aerospace industry.[8]

Prior to the adoption of an aerospace specific quality standard, various corporations typically used ISO 9000 and their own complementary quality documentation/requirements, such as Boeing's D1-9000 or the automotive Q standard. This created a patchwork of competing requirements that were difficult to enforce and/or comply with. The major American aerospace manufacturers combined their efforts to create a single, unified quality standard, based on ISO 9001:1994, resulting in AS9000. Upon the release of AS9000, companies such as Boeing discontinued use of their previous quality supplements in preference to compliance to AS9000.

AS9100 (1999)

Although AS9000 satisfied immediate needs, it was recognized that OEMs operate globally--a trend that would only increase, so a global standard was needed. The new standardized document, called 9100, was still based on ISO 9001:1994(E), although it was published separately by each country's aerospace association or standards body (AS9100 in the U.S). AS9100 added 55 aerospace industry specific amplifications and requirements to ISO 9001:1994.[9]

AS9100 Revision A (2001), Model for Quality Assurance in Design, Development, Production, Installation and Servicing

During the rewrite of ISO 9001 for the year 2000 release, the AS group worked closely with the ISO organization. As the year 2000 revision of ISO 9001 incorporated major organizational and philosophical changes, AS9000 underwent a rewrite as well. It was released as AS9100 to the international aerospace industry at the same time as the new version of ISO 9001.

AS9100A is actually two standards references in one publication; Section 1 defines an updated QMS model aligned with the updated ISO 9001:2000 publication while Section 2 defines a legacy model aligned with ISO 9001:1994. Organizations that in year 2001 were operating a QMS based on ISO 9001:1994 were permitted to conform to Section 2 with the expectation that they would then transition their QMS to Section 1.[10][11]

AS9100 Revision B (2004), Quality Management Systems – Aerospace Requirements

As the period for transition from the 1994 to 2000 standards passed, AS9100B was released in 2004 as an administrative revision to delete Section 2 of the Revision A standard.[12]

AS9100 Revision C (2009), Quality Management Systems - Requirements for Aviation, Space and Defense Organizations

The update of AS9100 from revision B to C is largely to address the following question: “Our supplier is repeatedly late on delivery and failing to meet our requirements, how is possible that they still have their AS9100 certificate?” That is, the AS9100C changes are driven by repeated delivery of non-conforming product and repeated late delivery by organizations that held AS9100A/B certifications. Those organizations had documented controls that conformed to the standard; however, there were insufficient processes in place to assure effectiveness of those controls. The response in this AS9100 revision is to elevate the requirements for Risk Management and to make Risk Management an integrated theme throughout the standard.[13]

A major challenge to AS9100B-compliant organizations was the new AS9100 auditing standards defined in AS9101 Revision D, which eliminates the clause-based compliance checklist and requires organizations to provide evidence of effectiveness of their systems and processes.[14]

Summary of Changes between AS9100B and AS9100C:[15]

AS9100 Revision C was released in January, 2009,[16] with considerable delay in application of the new version in audits, largely due to the delay in the release of AS9101 Revision D and auditor training to the increased auditing rigor of that update.[17]

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References

  1. 1 2 Aerospace's AS9100 QMS Standard
  2. ↑ Aerospace Industry Readies for the AS9100
  3. ↑ AS 9100 - Aerospace Quality
  4. ↑ Aerospace AS9100, AS9110, AS9120
  5. ↑ "Transposed Government Specification MIL-Q-9858A". Retrieved 2015-02-20.
  6. ↑ "MIL-I-45208A". Retrieved 2015-02-20.
  7. ↑ "New Quality Standards: A Status Report". Quality Digest. December 1997. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  8. ↑ Larson, Elizabeth R. (February 1999). "New Quality Standards: A Status Report". Quality Digest. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  9. ↑ Gordon, Dale K. (June 2003). "One Approval Accepted Everywhere". Quality Digest. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  10. ↑ AS9100A, Model for Quality Assurance in Design, Development, Production, Installation and Servicing", SAE International Aerospace Standard , p. 2
  11. ↑ Jonhson, Wayne E. (February 2007). "AS9100: On Course and Gaining Altitude". Quality Digest. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  12. ↑ ibid.
  13. ↑ "AS9100 Webinar- Reviewing Rev. C Changes (Webinar #1: AS9100's Revision C)". SAI Global. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
  14. ↑ "The New AS9100/AS9110/AS9120 & AS9101D Explained - What It Will Mean for You". Eagle Force, Inc. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  15. ↑ "AS9100 Webinar- Reviewing Rev. C Changes (Webinar #1: AS9100's Revision C)". SAI Global. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
  16. ↑ SAE International Publications
  17. ↑ Jonhson, Wayne E. (2010-01-03). "Update on AS9100 Revision C - What it means to your company". Quality Digest. Retrieved 2015-02-18.


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