AS9100 Aerospace Standard

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AS9100 is a standard for the aerospace industry, which the Aerospace division of SAE International and the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) maintains.  The latest revision of the standard is AS9100D.

AS 9100 takes ISO 9001 and expands its requirements and recommendations to suit the nature of aerospace and defense.

Some additional AS9100D requirements are:

  • Quality Management System addresses customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements
  • Requirement for documented information maintained with content defined (can be called quality manual)
  • On-time delivery performance measured
  • Management Representative with unrestricted access to top management
  • Process for the recall of monitoring and measuring equipment requiring calibration or verification
  • Awareness of product or service conformity, product safety and ethical behavior
  • Data protection processes
  • Management of critical items
  • Product safety during the product life cycle
  • Prevention of counterfeit parts
  • Specific test requirements during design and development
  • Specific requirements for external providers
  • Extended production and service provision
  • Non-conformity control process

Additional AS9100 terms and definitions:

  • Counterfeit Part
  • Critical Items
  • Key Characteristics
  • Product Safety
  • Special Requirement (high risk)

AS9110 – Quality Management System Requirements for Maintenance Organizations

AS9110 provides additional criteria for the maintenance and repair of private, commercial and military aircraft.

AS9120 – Quality Management Systems Requirements for Aviation, Space and Defense Distributors

AS9120 was specifically designed for aerospace suppliers