The OEM Myth Is Dead:Boeing Needed AS9100 And Went 24 Years Without It A Wake Up Call for Supplier

NEW YORK - Amzeal -- For more than two decades, Boeing required every supplier, machine shop, processor, and service provider to maintain accredited AS9100 certification through ANAB or an internationally equivalent accreditation body. Yet Boeing itself—despite being the world's largest aircraft manufacturer—operated 24 years without holding an AS9100 certificate, without appearing in OASIS, and without undergoing the independent third‑party verification required by the standard. In October 2003 ANSI-ANAB came out with supplier bulletin Heads Up-22 which mandated AS9100 suppliers must be on the OASIS – Online Aerospace Systems Information System which is run by the IAQG- International Aerospace Quality Group at this time IAQG was 65% run by Boeing. The bulletin state no AS9100 supplier could refuse to be on the OASIS data base or pay database fees. If they did their certification was taken away. Of special note Boeing, IAQG-OASIS, FAA sit on the members of management or members roster ANSI-ANAB BOARD

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This revelation dismantles the long‑standing "OEM exemption" myth repeated by quality professionals who insisted Boeing "didn't need AS9100 because they're the OEM." That claim is false. AS9100 contains critical clauses that cannot be self‑declared, self‑audited, or self‑approved, including:

• Clause 7.1.5 – Monitoring and Measuring Resources — Requires independent verification of calibration systems, measurement traceability, and equipment control. No organization can certify its own calibration system.
• Clause 8.5.2 – Identification and Traceability — Requires objective evidence of part traceability, configuration control, and material integrity. These controls must be validated by an accredited third party.
• Clause 9.2 – Internal Audit — Requires an impartial, competent, independent audit of the organization's quality system. No company can audit its own audit program.

These clauses exist to prevent exactly what occurred: a major manufacturer BOEING operating without independent oversight of calibration, traceability, supplier control, and nonconformance management.

Some professionals attempted to hide behind FAA certification as if it replaced AS9100. It does not. FAA certification is a finished‑aircraft approval, not a process‑control system. The FAA does not audit calibration systems, validate process controls, verify supplier quality, certify traceability chains, or approve internal audit programs. AS9100 and FAA certification serve two different functions, and one cannot replace the other. Without AS9100, an organization has no independently verified quality system, and without that, it has no business manufacturing aircraft or aircraft parts.

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In June 2024, Boeing Vice President of Quality Elizabeth Lund told Reuters that Boeing was "willing and prepared" and compliant with AS9100 and performing audits as if certified to AS9100. October 2024, quality expert Daryl Guberman traveled to Everett, Renton, Auburn, and Northfield, Washington, spending nearly a month on the ground. Through direct conversations with many Boeing employees across departments and shifts, he confirmed that not a single employee had ever heard of AS9100, had ever been trained in AS9100, or had ever participated in internal audits. This on‑site investigation demonstrates that Lund's public statement was false.

Compounding the issue, Boeing held a seat on ANAB's Management Systems Accreditation Committee for at least ten years (2014–2024), with authority to grant, suspend, and withdraw accreditation of certification bodies. During this same period, Boeing remained uncertified. This conflict undermines the integrity of the entire accreditation ecosystem.

Suppliers were forced to comply. Boeing did not. Quality professionals were told to accept the OEM myth. The record shows the opposite.

This press release is issued to ensure suppliers, regulators, and the public understand the scope of the systemic failure: AS9100 was mandatory for Boeing, and Boeing went 24 years without it. No media, No Legal Team, No Government Committee, has brought the true root cause of failure at Boeing to the forefront. Only QA Expert & Boeing Shareholder Daryl Guberman has with the "GUBERMAN-ANOMOLY"