---
title: "AIMS"
description: "An AI management system: the governance structure, roles, controls and continual-improvement loop that ISO/IEC 42001 certifies."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/aims
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
---

# AIMS

An AI management system: the governance structure, roles, controls and continual-improvement loop that ISO/IEC 42001 certifies. An AIMS is not the AI Act's Article 17 quality management system.

- Developed in: [ch. 22, The management-system trio](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/principles-and-standards#the-management-system-trio)
- Chapters: [ch. 07, Maturity Model](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/maturity-model) · [ch. 08, Regulatory Map](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/regulatory-map) · [ch. 22, Principles & Standards](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/principles-and-standards)
- Contrast with: [QMS (Art. 17)](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/qms-art-17)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-aims

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.