AS 9120 Aerospace Certification
To ensure safety, quality, and reliability within the aviation, space, and defense industries, certification to AS 9120 is essential.
AS 9120 Rev B, released in 2016, aligns with ISO 9001:2015, offering a solid foundation for a robust quality management system, specifically for aerospace distributors.
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AS9120 certification is specifically designed for distributors in the aerospace industry, ensuring that they meet stringent quality and safety requirements.
Meet Compliance Requirements
Compliance demonstrates an organization’s commitment to legal, regulatory, and industry standards, as well as best practices.
What Is It?
The aerospace industry operates on a global scale and demands high levels of oversight and accountability. The AS 9120 standard is designed for distributors in the aviation, space, and defense sectors.
It provides a recognized quality management framework to ensure traceability, safety, and reliability across products, services, and supply chains. By adopting AS 9120, organizations can streamline operations, reduce risk, and enhance supply chain integrity.
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
Understanding the true cost of quality enables organizations to gain clearer visibility into their financial performance, optimize resource allocation, identify inefficiencies, and make data-driven decisions that enhance operational effectiveness and profitability.
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