Maitland FL — Somec, a division of SNK America, has begun a Rapid AS9100 upgrade program with Oxebridge Quality Resources. The company is currently certified to ISO 9001:2000 by Perry Johnson Registrars.
The upgrade will bring Somec up to compliance to AS9100 Revision C, which includes the requirements of ISO 9001:2008. Because registrars are currently required to audit to AS9100 Revision B, Oxebridge is ensuring backward-compliance to the previous revision of the aerospace quality system standard as well. Third party registrars cannot certify quality systems to AS9100 C until official rules and audit-day tables are published.
Somec is a contract machining and manufacturing company specializing in complex CNC parts, of both small and large size. It services commercial, industrial, military and aerospace clients. Somec also builds its own Prodigy GT-27 high precicion gang tool lathe for sale to other machining companies. The company began as U.S. Can in 1955, and expanded into complex machining for a wider range of industries.
Oxebridge’s Rapid AS9100 upgrade service takes an ISO 9001 registered company and brings it into compliance with the aerospace standard in only a few weeks, depending on size and scope of the company. Somec has approximately 75 employees at its Maitland FL campus, and Oxebridge has developed an implementation plan that will upgrade the company to full AS9100 B/C compliance with only seven days of work by Oxebridge, spread out over a few week period.
Somec will then invite Perry Johnson Registrars back in to assess their compliance, and upgrade their current certification to full AS9100 registration.
For more information on Somec, visit www.somecmfg.com.
For information on Oxebridge’s AS9100 and its aerospace programs, click here.
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Christopher Paris is the founder and VP Operations of Oxebridge. He has over 35 years’ experience implementing ISO 9001 and AS9100 systems, and helps establish certification and accreditation bodies with the ISO 17000 series. He is a vocal advocate for the development and use of standards from the point of view of actual users. He is the writer and artist of THE AUDITOR comic strip, and is currently writing the DR. CUBA pulp novel series. Visit www.drcuba.world
