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peterd
Hi All,
We are a group of stockists of metal who also subcontract heat treatments, grinding, pre-machining and first stage operations as well as supply chain management.
About a year ago we decided to go for EN/AS9100, with a sligt shove from our customers. AS/EN9120 was just coming out for stockist distrinutors so we bought it and compared the requirements.
In the end we decided that as we do value added activities we fell outside the scope of AS9120 and plummed for the AS9100. We dulely got the cert and lived happily ever after.
However today our sister company had an audit from our registrar, plus his boss, two guys from our national body and one from the aerospace forum in the UK.
The question of our discussion came up and the general concensus from these worthy people was that we should be approved to AS9120 as we are a stockist. We questioned the value added bits and there reply was that we should go for both certs.
This seems a bit strange to me. AS9100 exceeds the requirements of AS9120 so why the problem? There are some specific references to requirements in AS9120 but we already meet them. The suggestion was that we identify which bits of which standard each of our processes meet.
Has anyone else encountered this? I know we are a bit of a special case but any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers
Peter
We are a group of stockists of metal who also subcontract heat treatments, grinding, pre-machining and first stage operations as well as supply chain management.
About a year ago we decided to go for EN/AS9100, with a sligt shove from our customers. AS/EN9120 was just coming out for stockist distrinutors so we bought it and compared the requirements.
In the end we decided that as we do value added activities we fell outside the scope of AS9120 and plummed for the AS9100. We dulely got the cert and lived happily ever after.
However today our sister company had an audit from our registrar, plus his boss, two guys from our national body and one from the aerospace forum in the UK.
The question of our discussion came up and the general concensus from these worthy people was that we should be approved to AS9120 as we are a stockist. We questioned the value added bits and there reply was that we should go for both certs.
This seems a bit strange to me. AS9100 exceeds the requirements of AS9120 so why the problem? There are some specific references to requirements in AS9120 but we already meet them. The suggestion was that we identify which bits of which standard each of our processes meet.
Has anyone else encountered this? I know we are a bit of a special case but any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers
Peter