Competence requirements reach your suppliers too. Where a supplier performs a special process, an inspection or a test for you, the purchase order and your requirements should state any qualification of their people that you or your customer require, and your supplier oversight should check it. The supplier tools in the Supplier Performance and Recovery Kit cover this; the point here is that the same evidence you expect of your own people applies to theirs.
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A management aid, not certification or a registrar audit. Using it does not by itself show conformity to AS9100D or any other standard, and your customers' requirements may add to it.
Clause numbers refer to AS9100D (SAE AS9100 Rev D) unless another document is named. The standards' text is not reproduced here: use your own licensed copy.
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