AS 9120 Aerospace Certification
To ensure safety, quality, and reliability in the aviation, space, and defense industries.
AS 9120 Rev B, the latest version released in 2016, aligns with the ISO 9001:2015 standard, which sets the foundation for a robust quality management system.
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As 9120 certification is specifically designed for distributors in the aerospace industry, ensuring that they meet stringent quality and safety requirements.
Meet Compliance Requirements
Compliance, organizations can demonstrate their commitment to following legal and regulatory obligations, industry standards, and best practices.
What Is It?
The aerospace industry is global and highly diverse. Organizations must maintain visibility and control over products, services and supply chains at all levels of maturity.
The AS 9120 Aviation, Space and Defence Distributors Quality Standard enables distributors to establish globally recognized quality management systems. It provides an effective framework to assist with establishing practices and procedures to ensure safe and reliable operations.
AS 9120 specifies requirements for a quality management system when an organization needs to provide products and services, or enhance customer satisfaction, in compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
The organization must understand the external and internal factors that may affect its ability to achieve the desired results.
Leadership is critical to a quality management system’s success, requiring visible commitment, clear communication and a strong customer focus.
Planning is a fundamental aspect of a quality management system (QMS), and it involves several key elements, including quality objectives, risks and opportunities, and change management.
Organization to have the necessary resources, competent personnel, awareness, effective communication, and appropriate documented information to support the functioning and continual improvement of the QMS.
It ensures that requirements are met, risks are effectively managed, safety is prioritized, and continuous improvement is achieved.
The organization must determine what is to be monitoring, measurement, and analysis, organizations can proactively identify issues, trends, and opportunities for improvement within their processes
AS 9120 requires a commitment to continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, and the delivery of safe and reliable products and services in the aviation, space, and defense sectors.
Next Steps
We can help your organization to implement or optimize AS 9120.
Start
- Purchase the AS 9120 Standard
- Undertake building expertise and ensuring a successful
Implement
- Contact QCI Global to discuss requirements, time and costs.
- Perform and option pre-assessment.
- Perform a gap analysis.
Certify
- Undertake a Stage 1 audit
- Complete a detailed Stage 2 audit
- Upon successful certification, display the ‘Five Ticks’ StandardsMark™
Maintain
- Conduct annual Surveillance Audits
- Recertify to AS 9120 every three years
- Establish and continuous improvement culture
Optimize
- Market for brand and promotional benefits
- Optimize commercial teams
- Ensure stakeholder awareness
The True Cost of Quality
The actual costs of their operations, including the costs of quality, organizations can gain better visibility into their financial performance, optimize resource allocation, and make data-driven decisions to improve efficiency, effectiveness
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