AS9100
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AS9100 is a widely adopted, quality management system or standard for aerospace industry. It was introduced by Society of Automotive Engineers in the Americas and the European Association of Aerospace Industries in Europe in October 1999.
AS9100 replaces the earlier version AS9000, and fully incorporates the entirety of the current version of ISO9000 while adding additional requirements relating to quality and safety. All major aerospace manufacturers and suppliers worldwide command compliance and/or registration to AS9100 as a condition of doing business with them.
[edit] History of AS9100
Prior to the adoption of an aerospace specific quality standard, various corporations typically used ISO9000 and their own complementary quality documentation/requirements, such as Boeing's D1-9000 or the automotive Q standard. This created a patchwork of competing requirements that were difficult to enforce and/or comply with. As a result the major American aerospace manufacturers combined their efforts to create a single, unified quality standard, resulting in AS9000. Upon the release of AS9000, companies such as Boeing discontinued use of their previous quality supplements in preference to compliance to AS9000.
During the rewrite of ISO9000 for the year 2000 release, the AS group worked closely with the ISO organization. As the year 2000 revision of ISO9000 incorporated major organizational and philosophical changes, AS9000 underwent a rewrite as well. It was released as AS9100 to the international aerospace industry at the same time as the new version of ISO9000.
AS9100 is currently at Rev B.
