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 While ASA-100 competes with AS 9120, many distributors serve multiple industries - and therefore choose the broader AS 9120 in order to capture the ISO 9001:2015 certification which accompanies AS 9120.
+While ASA-100 is more specific for distributors, it contains many antiquated and traditional non-value added requirements. For example, it requires a documented "Quality Manual", it fails to adequately address a metrological confirmation (aka calibration) system - and requires calibrations to be "traceable" to an international or national measurement standard for all measuring and test equipment (when applicable)". Apparently, the authors of both ASA-100 & AS 9120 have still not heard the news about [[https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si/si-units|SI units]].
 **SAE AS 9120 — Quality Management Systems - Aerospace Requirements for Stockist Distributors** \\
-If you're a distributor serving both aerospace and non-aerospace industries, AS 9120 may be a good choice for you.
+If you're a distributor serving both aerospace and non-aerospace industries, [[https://www.sae.org/standards/content/as9120/|AS 9120]] may be a good choice for you. While AS 9120 will force your business to also comply with ISO 9001:2015, at least AS 9120 addresses "risk". While the language in AS 9120 & ASA-100 is ambiguous on the topic, both allow you to determine whether nonconformities are "common cause" (with no assignable root cause) vs. "special cause" (with an assignable root cause) variations.
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