Bureau Veritas urges organisations to begin transition to updated aerospace standard

This comes ahead of the 15^th June 2017 deadline, which states that all audits completed after this date must be undertaken to the new version of the standard. In addition to this, all organisations who are certified to the current standard will need to transition to the new version by 15^th September 2018.

The AS9100 is a widely adopted and standardised quality management system recognised by all major aerospace and defence original equipment manufacturers, and was revised to reflect the changes to ISO 9001 made in 2015. The standard provides a structure for process control, defect prevention, reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain, continual improvement and effectively meeting customer requirements.

A spokesperson from Bureau Veritas said: “In accordance with SR003, issued by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG), all certified organisations should have, by 1st March 2017, informed their current certification body of their intentions to transition to the new version of the AS9100 series of standards. Any organisations that have not done so should act immediately.

“From our experience of helping a large number of our clients comply with AS9100 in the UK, our advice would be to act quickly and take action towards compliance now. Although the deadline may seem like a while away, it is worthwhile consulting your certification company in order to get an update on what you need to know and which changes in the auditing process will impact you. In taking these steps now, you could avoid or curb the potential penalties that may come from late or non-compliance.”

The revision of AS9100 is designed to improve the certification by establishing standardised methods for best practices and continual improvement.

Bureau Veritas has already begun to undertake a series of transition audits for organisations in line with the new standard.

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