AS 9100

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Quality Systems - aerospace - model for quality assurance in design, development, production, installation, and servicing

Developed, following on from TS 157, the AS 9100 standard defines additional and complementary quality management system requirements to ISO 9001, for organisations working in the aerospace industry.

To assure customer satisfaction, aerospace industry organisations must produce, and continually improve, safe, reliable products that meet or exceed customer and regulatory authority requirements. The globalisation of the aerospace industry, and the resulting diversity of regional/national requirements and expectations in today's world, has complicated this objective. End-product organisations in today's world, face the challenge of assuring the quality of, and integrating, product purchased from suppliers throughout the world and at all levels within the supply chain. Aerospace suppliers and processors face the challenge of delivering product to multiple customers having varying quality expectations and requirements.

As a consequence of these forces, the aerospace industry established the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) for the purpose of achieving significant improvements in quality and safety, and reductions in cost, throughout the value stream. The organisation, which includes representation from aerospace companies in the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and Europe, prepared the AS 9100 international standard, which standardises quality management system requirements for the aerospace industry. The establishment of common requirements, for use at all levels of the supply-chain, by organisations around the world, aims at improving quality and safety, and decreasing costs, by the elimination or reduction of organisation-unique requirements and the resultant variation inherent in these multiple expectations.