Bureau Veritas is urging all organisations to begin transition preparations for the update to the AS9100 Series aerospace industry standard.
This comes ahead of the 15 June 2017 deadline which states that all audits completed after then must be undertaken to the new version of the standard.
All organisations who are certified to the current standard will need to transition to the new version by 15 September 2018.
A representative from Bureau Veritas, said: “In accordance with SR003, issued by the International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG), all certified organisations should have now informed their current Certification Body of their intentions to transition to the new version of the AS9100 series of standards. Any organisations that have not done so should act immediately.”
The company continued added: “From our experience of helping a large number of our clients comply with AS9100 in the UK, our advice would be to act quickly and take action towards compliance now.”
AS9100 is a widely adopted and standardised quality-management system recognised by all major aerospace and defence original equipment manufacturers, and was revised to reflect the changes to ISO 9001, made in 2015.
The standard provides a structure for process control, defect prevention, reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain, continual improvement and effectively meeting customer requirements.
This revision of AS9100 is designed to improve the certification by establishing standardised methods for best practices and continual improvement.
Changes include strengthening the process approach to be more explicit, enabling organisations to better identify and manage risk, emphasising the importance of change management and ensuring greater flexibility with documentation.