AS9120B Lead Auditor
Lead process-based audits of aerospace distributors using the 9101 method
- Duration
- 40 hours
- Modules
- 11
- Final exam
- 75% to pass
- Certificate
- 36 months
- Lifetime access to the course and your certificate
- Verifiable Certificate of Completion. Certificate valid for 36 months.
- 3 exam attempts, 90 minutes each
- Progress saved to your account on every slide
About this course
This course prepares you to lead audits of quality management systems against AS9120B, the aviation, space and defense standard for stockists, pass-through distributors and brokers. It is written for people who will plan audit programmes, lead audit teams, grade findings and defend conclusions, whether as internal lead auditors, second-party supplier auditors or candidates for certification body work.
The clause modules go beyond interpretation to judgment: how to settle a distributor's scope when it uses third-party warehouses, how to grade a counterfeit prevention failure, how to tell a false statement of conformity from a documentation slip, and how to recognize when scattered gaps point to one leadership finding. Scenarios are drawn from certification, surveillance and second-party audits of real distributors.
You will learn the 9101 method as it applies to distribution: writing process effectiveness assessment reports for sourcing, receiving, storage and fulfilment, running stage 1 and stage 2, applying 9104-1 audit time and multi-site rules, and handling counterfeit discoveries and traceability breaks mid-audit. The ICOP scheme, auditor authentication and OASIS are covered so you understand the environment certification body auditors work in.
Shared modules on auditing fundamentals, programme management, the audit process, leading a team, nonconformities and root cause, and reporting and follow-up are expressed in AS9120B vocabulary. Eleven modules with quizzes lead to a timed final examination. Passing earns a PlanetISO Certificate of Completion valid for three years.
What you will be able to do
- Explain the ICOP scheme, the 9104 series, auditor authentication and the role of OASIS in AS9120B certification
- Determine the correct scope for a distributor, including multi-site and third-party storage arrangements and justified exclusions
- Interpret clauses 4 to 10 of AS9120B for a distributor and identify the evidence that demonstrates conformity and effectiveness
- Grade nonconformities in counterfeit prevention, traceability, release and nonconforming product control using 9101 definitions
- Write process effectiveness assessment reports for distribution processes and assign effectiveness levels supported by data
- Plan and lead stage 1, stage 2, surveillance and second-party audits of distributors, including audit time and multi-site sampling
- Lead an audit team through counterfeit discoveries, traceability breaks and pressure to omit findings
- Evaluate corrective action for root cause quality, human factors, flow-down to sources and demonstrated effectiveness
Course outline
- 1
AS9120B overview for lead auditors
The standard in its scheme context: the ICOP scheme, the 9104 series, auditor authentication, OASIS and what certification bodies expect when they audit a distributor.
About 40 minutes, then a module quiz
- 2
Clauses 4 to 6 for lead auditors
Context, scope, processes, leadership and planning viewed from the lead auditor's chair: determining the right scope, judging process maturity and interviewing top management.
About 40 minutes, then a module quiz
- 3
Clauses 7 and 8 for lead auditors
Support and operation in depth, with the distribution additions that carry the most risk: measuring resources, awareness, records, product safety, counterfeit prevention, requirements review, external providers, controlled distribution activities, traceability, release and nonconforming outputs.
About 70 minutes, then a module quiz
- 4
Clauses 9 and 10 for lead auditors
Performance evaluation and improvement: judging whether monitoring, internal audit, management review and corrective action actually drive the distributor's QMS.
About 40 minutes, then a module quiz
- 5
Auditing fundamentals
What an audit is, the principles that make it credible, and what AS9120B requires of internal audit at clause 9.2.
About 40 minutes, then a module quiz
- 6
Managing the audit programme
Establishing and running an audit programme under ISO 19011 clause 5, and how certification bodies plan audits of a quality management system under ISO/IEC 17021-1.
About 50 minutes, then a module quiz
- 7
The audit process
Planning, preparing, conducting and closing an audit of a quality management system, step by step, with the evidence-gathering techniques auditors rely on.
About 55 minutes, then a module quiz
- 8
Leading the audit team
What the audit team leader is responsible for before, during and after an audit of a quality management system, including auditing top management and handling difficult situations.
About 50 minutes, then a module quiz
- 9
Leading 9101 audits of distributors and supplier audits
Applying the 9101 method to a distributor: PEARs for distribution processes, stage 1 and stage 2, audit time and multi-site warehouses, second-party supplier audits, and scenarios on counterfeit discoveries and traceability breaks.
About 60 minutes, then a module quiz
- 10
Nonconformities and root cause
How to recognise, grade and write a nonconformity, and how to judge whether the corrective action under AS9120B clause 10.2 has dealt with the cause.
About 45 minutes, then a module quiz
- 11
Audit reporting and follow-up
Writing a report people act on, verifying corrective action, closing findings, and turning audit results into input for management review at clause 9.3.
About 35 minutes, then a module quiz
Final examination and certificate
40 questions drawn from the course bank. Score 75% or higher to receive your Certificate of Completion.
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- Duration
- 4 hours
- Level
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- Level
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