AS 9100 Quality Management System for MRO

To assure customer satisfaction, aerospace industry organizations must produce, and continually improve, safe, reliable products that meet or exceed customer and regulatory authority requirements. The globalization of the aerospace industry, and the resulting diversity of regional/national requirements and expectations, has complicated this objective. End-product organizations 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.

SAE Aerospace, an SAE International Group and the aerospace industry established the International Aerospace Quality Group (lAQG) for the purpose of achieving significant improvements in quality and safety, and reductions in cost, throughout the value stream. This organization includes representation from aerospace companies in the Americas , Asia Pacific, and Europe . AS 9100 standard has been prepared by the lAQG.

AS 9100 standardizes, to the greatest extent possible, quality management system requirements for the aerospace industry. The establishment of common requirements, for use at all levels of the supply-chain, by organizations around the world, should result in improved quality and safety, and decreased costs, due to the elimination or reduction of organization-unique requirements and the resultant variation inherent in these multiple expectations.

ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees.

International Standard ISO 9001:2000 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 176, Quality Management and quality assurance, subcommittee SC2, Quality Systems.

ISO 9001:2000 is the third edition of ISO 9001. This third edition of ISO 9001 cancels and replaces the second edition (ISO 9001:1994) together with ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9003:1994. It constitutes a technical revision of these documents. Those organisations which have used ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9003:1994 in the past may use this International Standard by excluding certain requirements in accordance with 1.2 of the ISO 9001:2000 requirements.

ISO 9001:2000 international standard specifies requirements for a quality management system when an organisation

1. needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements, and
   
   
2. aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable regulatory requirements.