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AAQG |
American Aerospace Quality Group |
A cooperative organization within the aerospace industry in the Americas. For more information, go to their website; http://www.sae.org/aaqg.
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AC |
Audit Criteria |
The document that you are audited to, available for download in www.eauditnet.com.
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AIA |
Aerospace Industries Association |
An association that represents Americas’ leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, space systems, aircraft engines, missiles, material, and related components, equipment, services, and information technology. For more information, go to their website; http://www.aia-aerospace.org/.
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AIAG |
Automotive Industry Action Group |
A not-for-profit association, designed to reduce cost and complexity within the automotive supply chain and to improve speed-to-market, product quality, employee health-and-safety and the environment. For more information, go to their website; http://www.aiag.org.
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AIR |
Aerospace Information Reports |
An SAE document that is a compilation of engineering reference data, historical information, or educational material useful to the technical community. For more information or to obtain a copy of any document, go to www.sae.org.
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ALT |
Alternate Voting Member (Nadcap) |
A qualified individual designated by a Voting Member in their absence.
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AMD |
Aerospace Materials Division |
An SAE Group whose objective is to coordinate and utilize the knowledge, expertise, and skills of its members in promulgating and maintaining materials and process specifications conforming to sound, established engineering and materials practices in the aerospace industry. For more information on this group, including upcoming meetings, a list of work in progress and more, click here.
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AMEC |
Aerospace Metals
Engineering Committee
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An SAE Committee under the AMD whose goal is to provide the aerospace industry and government agencies, in the public interest, with the technical benefits which accrue from cooperative activities and through the synergistic interchange of ideas and experience of members. For more information, and a work in progress list, click here.
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AMS |
Aerospace Materials Specification |
An SAE Aerospace standards publication. For a list of documents, or to order one, go to; http://www.sae.org/standardsdev/aerospace/newamstd.htm
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ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
A private, non-profit organization that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. For more information, go to their website; http://www.ansi.org/.
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ANAB |
ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board |
Accredits US certification bodies for ISO 9001 quality management systems (QMS) and ISO 14001 environmental management systems (EMS), as well as a number of industry-specific requirements. For more information, go to their website; http://www.anab.org/.
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AQS |
Aerospace Quality Systems |
A Nadcap Task Group that conducts audits to demonstrate compliance of quality systems to AC7004, based on AS9003. For more information, click here.
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ARP |
Aerospace Recommended Practice |
The Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) is an industry approved recommendation generated by a sub-committee on a specific topic area. To find more information on any ARP, go to the Standards section on the SAE website at http://www.sae.org/technical/standards/ and search for your topic.
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AS |
Aerospace Standard |
SAE specifications for the aerospace industry. To obtain a copy of any aerospace standard, go to www.sae.org.
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ASTM Intl |
A brand name, formerly
known as American
Society for Testing and Materials
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A world wide voluntary organization that develops technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. For more information, go to their website; www.astm.org. |
