{"id":6398,"date":"2025-09-23T20:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minjeng.com\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:41:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:41:45","slug":"ia9100-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minjeng.com\/en\/ia9100-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"AS9100 to IA9100 Complete Analysis: Key Points, Timeline, and Preparation Guide for the 2026 New Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

As industry demands evolve rapidly, AS9100:2016 (Rev. D) has undergone a comprehensive revision and will be renamed IA9100. This is not only an update to the quality management standard, but also an effort to ensure that the quality management system (AQMS) in the aerospace and defense sectors can meet modern challenges, customer needs, and regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IA9100 vs. AS9100: What are the five core changes?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although the IA9100 standard, which evolved from AS9100, has been ten years in the making, its architecture remains based on ISO 9001, while incorporating several new elements to more comprehensively address contemporary industry risks. The following are the five key core concepts of the new IA9100:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Strengthen Quality Culture
    The new IA9100 emphasizes leadership responsibility, ethical behavior, human factors engineering, and continuous improvement, with its core being "culture implementation \u00d7 customer orientation." Clauses 0.1, 5.1.1, and 7.1.4 explicitly require the documentation of quality culture and ethical behavior, such as establishing ethical codes and providing training.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Raising Information Security Awareness
    The new standard incorporates core information security concepts similar to ISO 27001:2022, covering data protection, cyber threat protection, remote monitoring, and electronic record security. The core concept is "information security integration \u00d7 data protection." Clause 7.1.7 requires enterprises to establish and document a complete information security protection plan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Implement Advanced Quality Planning (APQP)
    IA9100 encourages proactive planning of product design and processes, and strengthens cross-departmental and supply chain collaboration, with the core being "risk prevention \u00d7 consistency". The new version of clause 8.1.3 emphasizes product safety analysis (such as FMEA), while 7.1.5.1 requires measurement system analysis (such as MSA), and 8.1 and Annex B recommend implementing the APQP mechanism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Expanding Supply Chain Resilience
    The new IA9100 significantly strengthens supply chain management, covering control of secondary suppliers, counterfeit parts protection, and foreign object damage (FOD) management. Its core principle is "full-chain transparency \u00d7 controllable risk." Clause 8.4.3 requires the establishment of a supplier map and strengthens counterfeit prevention mechanisms and foreign object damage prevention requirements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Adopt a risk-based thinking approach.
    The new version integrates risk management into every stage, including design, manufacturing, internal auditing, and work transfer, with its core being "comprehensive prevention \u00d7 systematic control." This goes beyond risk assessment; it systematizes the concept of "escalation" to ensure that risks are detected and addressed promptly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    IA9100 Revision Timeline and Response Strategies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Although the IAQG document mentions that a standard synchronized with the new version of ISO 9001 will not be released until 2026, the IAQG may still release a new version based on the existing ISO 9001:2015 if ISO 9001 is not updated. The expected timeline is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n