Aerospace Industry

A focus on Supply Chain Management

Leading aerospace companies increasingly require their suppliers to become certified to AS9100 and/or AS9120. This trend to concentrate on only a few strategic suppliers", places a heavy emphasis on supply chain management - a development that resulted in significantly increased demand. With an increase to more than 300 certified sites worldwide, UL DQS ranks among the most significant certification bodies for the aerospace industry. The offices of DQS GmbH in Germany and UL DQS Inc. in USA hold strong market positions.

AS9100 / AS9120

Aerospace industry suppliers that compete in an environment of high-risk products, either goods or services, benefit from the AS9100 and 9120 standards. For the manufacturer (AS9100) or retailer (AS9120), these standards strategically enhance their quality management system.
 

What can be achieved?

• Continual improvement
• Increased error prevention
• Strengthening of reliability and process capability in an organization's value chain
• A high degree of customer satisfaction
• Employee satisfaction

AS9100 standards offer a framework for comprehensive quality management systems based on ISO 9001:2008.

Define

In the course of neutral and independent assessments, the well-qualified UL DQS auditors focus on the identification of potential for improvement. This approach supplies significant momentum for improving productivity beyond the simple confirmation of conformance.

Benefits of certification include:

• Visible sign of the fulfillment of OEM requirements
• The organization is listed as a competent supplier in the OASIS database
• Cost savings Integration of requirements from the normative and legally regulated areas
• A transparent and logical structuring, release, and alteration of requirements,
• specifications, and products - by way of a configuration management

Do you have a question regarding your transition to AS91XX:2009?

UL DQS provides support to its clients who are currently making the transition to AS91XX:2009. It is our goal to work with them to make this transition seamless. Do you need additional information or have a question about the transition that we can help with? Simply fill in the required information below and submit your question. You will receive a personal response from an RAB QSA approved AS91XX:2009 Aerospace Experienced Auditor (AEA).