ASACB Training Announcements
Our next Webinar is scheduled for June 1, 2017. This webinar
will address the topics of Risk Based Thinking and Operational Risk Management. The presenter will be George Ringger, Accreditation Manager, ASACB. This webinar is open to ASA Members, ASA-100 Accredited companies and ASACB
certified clients. The cost for members, accredited companies and certified
clients is $99.00 and for non-members, non-accredited companies and
non-certified clients is $145.00. This webinar will begin at 11:00am EDT and
end at 12:15pm EDT. Registration is required and will be available on our website
at www.aviationsuppliers.org/Workshops after May 19, 2017. Your registration
confirmation will include the login information.
ASACB will be offering
additional workshops in the upcoming months. Stay tuned for announcements on
the following Training workshops:
- AS9120B Transition
July in the Dallas, TX area.
- AS9120B Transition
August in the Chicago, IL area.
- AS9100D Third
quarter location to be announced.
- AS9110C Third
quarter location to be announced.
ASACB will be offering 90 minute workshops on the
following topics during the July 9-11, 2017 ASA Annual Conference:
- Product Safety as it
relates to AQMS AS9100D/AS9110C/AS9120B
- Required Documentation
as it relates to AQMS AS9100D/AS9110C/AS9120B
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?
- Contract with ASACB within 7
days of attending the workshop - receive a 10% discount on audit day rate.
- Contract with ASACB after 7
days of attending the workshop - receive a 5% discount on audit day rate.
Discounts apply to the 1st year of
services and 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.
Transition Information
There are only 16 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.
Key Dates
Request for Quotations for initial
certifications to any of the AS series standards received after May 1, 2017
will be quoted to the 2016 revisions of the applicable standard sought. ASACB is taken this measure to ensure that
newly contracted and existing clients will be audited to the revisions of
AS9100C/AS9110B/AS9120A before the June 15, 2017 deadline. - An email notification is being sent out by the IAQG via OASIS to
all AQMS certified organizations and approved certification bodies entitled, "Effective June 15, 2017 Auditing will be to the AS9100D:2016 Version."
- 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.
Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) and
Aerospace Information Report (AIR)
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.
- ARP9356
Declarable Substances Recommended Practice
- AIR5317
A Guide to APU Health Management
- AIR5487
Aircraft Tire History
Miscellaneous
The International Accreditation Form
or IAF has posted a ballot draft to update for the Mandatory Document for the
Transfer of Accredited Certification of Management Systems Issue 2, IAF
MD2:201X. ASACB will review and discuss
any impact to our existing transfer process.
Any changes required within our transfer process will be immediately
updated and clients that are in the process of transferring will be notified if
these updates impact their transfer of certification.
