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Why IAQG-1 SMC Is a Better Way To Manage

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The IAQG-1 Standards Management Committee (SMC) is a subcommittee of the
International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) Standards Council. It was created in 2022
as the result of the industry’s push for a single standards development organization (SDO)
activity, who would help release documents in a more timely and consistent way.

The committee make up fluctuates, with around seventy primary voting members, who are
industry experts from member companies, certification bodies, accreditation bodies and the
like.
In addition, there are a number of liaison members that preview the documents and provide
feedback and comments, although their affirmative vote is not mandatory for release. With
the new structure, their names have slightly morphed: from International Document
Representative (IDR) to International Document Sponsor (IDS) and from Sector Document
Representatives (SDR) to Sector Document Liaison (SDL).
The SMC is responsible for approximately 30 standards and ensures the mandatory five-
year review cycle is met for all these documents, also addressing the needs of their
stakeholder organizations through these updates.
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The committee’s SDO activity is governed by an operating procedure (#210) and follows a
similar structure to the previous methodologies employed, with some differences.
Previously, each structure would take an internationally prepared document and ballot for
approval. One problem with this methodology was that the balloting timelines were largely
misaligned and slowed down the release process of new and modified standards.
Additionally, the naming convention and the revision indicators varied by sector, which made
a “decoder ring” necessary in order to establish technical equivalence. For example, the
AS9100D (the QMS requirements for aviation, space, and defense organizations) is
equivalent to the JISQ-9100:2016 and the EN9100:2018 documents.
If that sounds confusing, it’s because it was. Now, the new IAQG-1 SDO activity wil release
all documents under a single balloting process and with the same document number (e.g.,
IA9104/1:2024). When the next version of AS9100 is released, it too wil have been renamed
under this new numbering system and called IA9100, with the revision indicator being the
year of release.
There were also changes to the translation process. Under the new SDO activity,
documents wil be translated into several languages as a part of their release process, to
ensure availability to global organizations that need it. These languages include German,
French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean, with English remaining
the primary language and others being considered on an ongoing basis.
According to Don McFarland, NSF technical scheme manager, Aerospace, “IAQG-1 SMC has
become the one stop shop for all things IAQG. Although it may seem like a simple rebranding
of the standards to a different naming convention, it was a huge step forward in the global
harmonization of the scheme. It has sped up the release process of documents to the
various stakeholders and ensured that the industry’s intellectual property is protected for
many years to come through a sustainable framework.”

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