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AS9100 Rev C Information

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• What do I need if I already have AS9100 B?
• AS9100 Rev C Transition Schedule
• AS9100 Revision Objectives
• List of Significant Rev C Changes (by clause)
• AS9100 Rev C Articles
• What about AS9110 and AS9120 Revisions?
• AIQG Press Release on AS9100 Rev C Changes

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• Purchase a copy of the 2009 AS9100 Rev C
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What if I already am AS9100B?

• We published Rev B-C transition products for everyone - including previous customers.
• This page, along with IAQG information is all you need to transition from Rev B to Rev C

Transition schedule

This IAQG Timeline outlines the transition timeframe for AS9100 Rev C

• Rev C registration audits won't happen until Q310 at the earliest so you should decide if you want to register to AS9100 Rev B or Rev C.

• IAQG Recommends implementing Rev B for now, and being aware of the Rev C changes. Buy our AS9100 Rev B products now if you plan on achieving registration BEFORE Q3-2010, and you will be eligible for the AS9100 Rev C upgrade kit.

• The AS9100 Store offers documentation in both Rev B and Rev C, but recommends starting with Rev B now - rather than waiting. We offer an upgrade path from Rev B to Rev C.

• Read Quality Digest Article summarizing the AS9100C conversion timeline

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AS9100C Objectives:

Incorporate ISO 9001:2008 changes

Expand scope to include land and sea based systems
for defense applications

Ensure alignment with IAQG strategy (on-time, on-quality
performance)

Adopt new requirements based on stakeholder needs
Improve existing requirements where stakeholders
identified need for clarification

Here is a rationale for the changes from the IAQG

List of significant changes AS9100C:

This document reviews the changes from AS9100b to AS9100c in detail, but here is a summary:

Scope extended beyond Aviation & Space to now include Defense

Risk - an undesirable situation or circumstance that has both a likelihood of occurring and a potentially negative consequence. (Key to applying Risk Management)

Special Requirements - Those requirements which have high risks to being achieved thus, requiring their inclusion in the risk management process. Factors include:

• Product or Process Complexity
• Past Experience
• Product or Process Maturity

Critical Items - Those items having significant effect on the product realization and use of the product; including safety, performance, form, fit, function, producibility, service life, etc.; that require specific actions to ensure they are adequately managed. Examples include:

• Safety Critical Items
• Fracture Critical Items
• Mission Critical Items
• Key Characteristics

Delete requirement to create a document showing the relationship between AS9100 requirements and the organizations documented procedures.

NOTE: Auditors need to identify appropriate documented procedures as an inherent part of the audit

Management responsibility for measuring 'product conformity' and 'on-time delivery' and for taking appropriate remedial actions

Requirement to evaluate customer satisfaction using specific QMS information, then develop plans that address deficiencies

New requirement for planning and managing product realization in a structured and controlled way to meet requirements at acceptable risk, within resource and schedule constraints.

New requirement to implement a risk management process applicable to the product and organization covering: responsibility, criteria, mitigation & acceptance

Structured in line with ISO 10007 requirements

The organization must have a process to plan and control the transfer activities

Expanded to cover permanent transfer

Objective and reliable data from external sources may be used during supplier selection and evaluation

Where the organization utilizes test reports to verify
purchased product, the data in those reports shall be acceptable per applicable specifications. The organization shall periodically validate test reports for raw material.

Requirement to validate the production processes, documentation and tooling are capable of producing parts and assemblies that meet requirements. This process shall be repeated when changes occur that invalidate the original results (e.g. engineering or manufacturing
processes changes).

Redundant to ISO 9001 text, too prescriptive.

When the organization uses sampling inspection as a means of product acceptance, the sampling plan shall be justified on the basis of recognized statistical principles and appropriate for use (i.e., matching the sampling plan to the criticality of the product and to the process capability).

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AS9100 Rev C articles

"Ready for Takeoff" by L.L. 'BUDDY' Cressionnie (07/08) Quality Progress Article

ASQ Article "Revised AS&D Standards Take Flight"

Aerospace Standards: Going Where No One Has Gone Before by Sidney Vianna, DNV

Quality Digest Article summarizing the AS9100 C conversion timeline

What about AS9110 and AS9120 Revisions?

AS9110A (Maintenance)is now published (Jul/09).
The changes are similar with those of AS9100 Rev C. Read about the AS9110A Changes

AS9120A (Distribution) is now published (Jul09).
The changes are similar with those of AS9100 Rev C. Read about the AS9120A Changes

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NOTE: Most information provided by the IAQG

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