My client is a small (50-60 people) design , assembly and integration house, with all manufacturing operations outsourced. About 50% of its business is industrial machines , mostly one of a kind , no formal customer quality requirements , the other 50% is subcontracts to aerospace contractors. The company QMS is presently ISO9001registered. Lately the aerospace customers press for upgrading the QMS to AS9100.
Management would like a dual QMS whereas only the aerospace projects would be under AS9100.
Intuitively I think this is not feasible and wonder if a registrar would even agree to such duality. Does anyone think this is feasible? If as I assume, it is not, does anyone have ideas for good arguments to convince management to change their mind?
Our registration certificate has both AS9100B and ISO9001:2000. We provide ground support equipment, both Aerospace and Industrial.
So what is the problem?