(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- SAE International’s Americas Aerospace Quality Standards Committee has completed Standard AS9003—“Inspection and Test Quality Systems—Requirements for Aviation, Space, and Defense Organization,” and it is now available for purchase.

This quality standard is designed for suppliers that produce noncomplex products for aviation, space, and defense customers. This release replaces the 1994 version of AS9003 and is modeled after the current process-based version of AS9100 as well as the Mil-Q-9858/Mil-I45208 quality system architecture that existed for decades within the Department of Defense.

Standard AS9003 provides contractors a less costly alternative to AS9100 for smaller suppliers that manufacture simple build-to-print product. It provides a set of requirements that apply to the inspection and test of noncomplex product, and provides assurance that product-configuration requirements and customer expectations will be met. Non-complex products are defined as products whose conformity can be fully verified by the customer upon receipt.

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