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Thursday, March 4, 2010

My Customer Wants Us Certified to AS9100, HELP!

You are a small business owner who has just been told you must become certified to AS9100 in order to continue to receive business from your largest customer. You have been putting this off for some time, hoping you would be able to wait until the economy gets better. Now what, you have a deadline and you haven’t got a clue how to get there from here? The best advice, find a competent consultant and get some training to the standard.

Those organizations who recruit good consultants get the job done roughly twice as fast. By helping you avoid mistakes, a good consultant can help you get the job done faster. But only a good consultant can do this. Not all consultants are created equally, and it is important to select a consultant that is right for you. A reputable consultant works hard to ensure that you fully own your quality management system at the time of registration.

Key services you will require, if you have no idea what you are doing or how you will do it are as follows:

1. Required documentation development and implementation
2. Training: Quality policy and objectives, Management review, Corrective and Preventive action, Internal auditing, AS9100 Overview, Risk analysis, Overview of the Complete QMS, Collecting and analyzing data.
3. If software is being used to facilitate and run your quality system, you will also need training and implementation services for this.
4. Implementation of a competency, awareness and training program, internal audit, corrective and preventive action programs, management review and overall continual improvement programs.
5. Conduct internal audits for entire system (all processes), one high level internal audit to the AS9101C checklist in preparation for registration audit.
This is just a short list of services that you may need to accomplish your goal of certification to AS9100. Depending on the size and complexity of your organization and processes more may be needed. A good consultant can help you determine your individual needs.
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2 comments:

  1. MouradoMarch 16, 2010 at 7:30 AM

    Hi,

    In fact my company is often offering services like simulation and CAO services with catia for aeronautics field.
    I don' t know if my company should be certified AS9100

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  2. UnknownMay 4, 2010 at 11:23 PM

    Hello Mourado,

    Getting an AS9100 certification is not that hard for every organization, big or small. If your company has an ISO9100-based quality standards already implemented, I think your company can get certified with no serious issues. Just go to an AS9100 registrar to discuss these things.

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