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ASACB News!
The following companies have
achieved certification to the Aviation, Space and Defense management system
standards:
ASACB Training Announcements Our next Workshop will be held on August 30,
2017. This workshop will address the new
AS9120B requirements. The presenter will be Walter Sam O'Connor, Vice President
Technical Services for ASACB. This workshop
is open to ASA Members, ASA-100 Accredited companies and ASACB certified
clients and any other organization certified to AS9120A. The cost for members,
accredited companies and certified clients is $300.00 and for non-members,
non-accredited companies and non-certified clients is $500.00. Registration is
required and will be available on our website at www.aviationsuppliers.org/Workshops after June 30, 2017. ASACB will be offering additional workshops in the
upcoming months. Stay tuned for announcements on the following Training
workshops:
Amazing Introductory
Promotional Offer for New ASACB Clients ASA is pleased to announce an amazing offer to new
ASACB clients. Any organization that attends an ASA ISO or AS Standards
Workshop and subsequently contracts with ASACB for certification services will
receive a discount on those services (limitations apply, see below). Which
incredible offer will you choose?
Discounts apply to the 1st year of services and
are only offered to new clients who are seeking ISO 9001, AS9100/AS9110/AS9120
initial certification services through ASACB. The discount does not apply to
audit travel or fee expenses. Days are counted as calendar days. For questions
and additional information, please contact Sam O'Connor. ASACB will be offering 90 minute workshops on the
following topics during the July 9-11, 2017 ASA Annual Conference.
Transition information There are only 15 months remaining
for the transition to the new ISO 9001/AS9100/AS9110/AS9120 standards. Organizations that are AS9100/AS9110/AS9120 and waiting on release of the new
revisions should already have or are in process of implementing the
ISO9001:2015 standards new requirements. ISO 9001:20015 is the base standard
for all the newly revised and pending release AS series standards. This will
aid in getting your organization prepared to achieve the transition deadline of
September 15, 2018 for AS9100/AS9110/AS9120. All transition audits must be completed by June 15, 2018 per industry
requirements listed in Supplemental Rule SR003 which can be located at https://www.iaqg.org/oasis/login The SR003 document is located under the
section titled "9100:2016 Series Quality Management System Transition" in
paragraph two last sentence. If you should have any questions please
contact Sam
O'Connor, Vice President Technical Services
ASA/ASACB or George
Ringger, Accreditation Manager ASACB for
clarification or concerns. ASACB Transition Complete ASACB has successfully transitioned
its AQMS accreditations for all three AS9100 industry standards as of May 11,
2017. All audits that begin on or after June 15,
2017 will be to the new revisions of AS9100D/AS9110C/AS9120B. Transition Aid The
ASACB has a gap assessment worksheet to aid in the transition to AS9100D that
is based on input from the IAQG. It can be downloaded via the following
link; Gap
Assessment AS9100D. It may also be accessed
from the ASA's Website at: AQMS:2016
Transition Policy; scroll to the bottom of the
bottom of the page and click on Gap Assessment AS9100D. Quality Management Standards
for the ASD Industry. The following documents have been
created by the Aviation, Space and Defense Industries (ASD) and released through
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) for use by organizations supporting and
supplying a product or service to the ASD industries. You can purchase or access these documents at
www.sae.org.
ASA News!
Government Affairs and Legal News: "Last Certificated
Agency" on SPEC 106: What Does it Mean? One of
ASA's members wrote to us with a Spec 106 question. It's a question we've heard
before. At its root, the question is, "What does block 13C on the ATA Spec
106 form ("Last Certificated Agency") mean and whose name do we put
into that block?" Read
more...
Receiving Inspectors are Not Preforming Maintenance In a
Victory from common sense, the FAA issued a legal interpretation that confirms
that receiving inspector's who are receiving articles for stock are not
performing maintenance activities and therefore are not among the personnel who
are required to be subject to DOT-regulated drug and alcohol testing. Read
More...
DOT OIG's Audit Report of
FAA's Oversight of the SUPs Program and FAA's Response The following "Results In Brief" excerpt is from the office of the Assistant Inspector General for Aviation Audits' letter to the FAA. We suggest thoroughly reading the letter and the report in its entirety to understand the FAA's corrective actions and timelines. FAA's process for monitoring and investigating SUPs is not as effective as it could be, because of recordkeeping weaknesses and the lack of a management control to capture and accurately report the number of SUPs. Read more... ASA Events!
ASA 2017 Annual Conference: Information is Power! 16 General Session Presentations and 20 Workshops ASA2017 Conference Agenda is Now Available On-Line!
Hyatt Regency Hotel Room Block Cut-Off is Friday, June 16th.
Quality Committee Meeting - July 9, 2017, Reston, VA The next QC Meeting is scheduled for July 9, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency, Reston, VA. Separate registration is required. Also, be sure to make your hotel reservations accordingly. If you have any questions please contact Tony Brigham. |
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