Who is eligible to grant AS9100
AS9100-AS9110-AS9120 Certification?

ANAB Accreditation for Aerospace Management Systems

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The Aircraft, Space and Defense (AS&D) industries want their suppliers to be AS91xx certified. This certification must be issued by CBs accredited to the AS standards by a body recognized by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) or the Americas Aerospace Quality Group (AAQG). ANAB is recognized to accredit CBs to AS9100, AS9120, and AS9003.

A CB must conform to ISO/IEC 17021 and be accredited for ISO9001 by ANAB (or another IAF MLA signatory) for a year prior to applying for AS accreditation. In addition, the IAQG has the following standards:

SAE AS9104 Series of Standards

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AS9104 Standard outlines the requirements for aerospace quality management system (AQMS) certification programs in the Americas Aerospace Quality Group (AAQG).

AS9104 consists of three documents:

AS9104/1 - Requirements for Aerospace Quality Management System
Certification/Registration Programs
AS9104/2 - Requirements for Oversight of Aerospace Quality Management System Registration/Certification Programs
AS9104/3 - Requirements for Aerospace Auditor Competency and Training Courses

AS9104/1 is currently being drafted. AAQG intends to remove AS9014 when all of its requirements are incorporated in the AS9104 trilogy.

ISO 17021:2011 Conformity Assessment

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is a network of standards institutes from 159 countries with a central office in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the member network. Â ISO is a non-governmental organization that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors, and is the largest standards organization in the world.

Buy ISO 17021

One of these standards is â€œISO/IEC 17021:2011 Conformity assessment
-Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systemsâ€, which in effect stipulates the requirements for Registrars who certify organizations to ISO management standards like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, etc.

People often say â€œISO Certifiedâ€ but ISO does not issue certificates or certify individual companies to any standard. They are issued by certification/registration bodies (also called Registrars or CBâ€™s), which are independent of ISO. CBâ€™s need to be accredited by an IAF member to be internationally recognized.

ISO/IEC 17021 ensures international acceptance of the CBâ€™s certifications (i.e. your AS9100 certificate) by requiring that all Accreditation bodies (ANAB, etc.) belong to an internationally accredited organization, like the IAF.Â Likewise, the IAF ensures that CBâ€™s comply with ISO/IEC 17021.

Some Quality System Registrars are not accredited by IAF, and thus are not meeting ISO 17021 â€“ and will not be internationally recognized. Make sure that you choose a Registrar who is
accredited by an IAF member (ANAB or the equivalent of ANAB in your country or region).

When you receive your registration certificate, it should display the ANAB and the IAF logos and unfortunately without them, you are not officially AS9100 certified.

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