International Production and Airworthiness Certification Conference February 2002. Global Manufactur

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International Production and Airworthiness
Certification ConferenceFebruary 2002.Global
Manufacturing

• Frank P. Paskiewicz
• Walter Gessky

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Production and Airworthiness CertificationConfere
nce - February 2002

• Areas discussed during the Production and
  Airworthiness conference
• Structure and impact of EASA,
• Co-ordination between Design and Production,
• Industry activities through the IAQG,
• Authority oversight of distributors,
• e-Commerce and e-Forms,
• Global Manufacturing
• This presentation will center on Global
  Manufacturing.
• The objective of which was to establish a process
  for working together to solve common issues and
  to standardize or institute common requirements
  and processes.

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Goal

• Enhance safety by working with the international
  airworthiness authorities and industry to
  establish a system where aircraft products and
  parts
• can be manufactured anywhere,
• move quickly and seamlessly to the end user,
• are supported by electronic documentation
• and there is one authority action for each
  industry action.

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Why This Initiative

• Increased reliance on global suppliers
• Supplier control consistently top problem area
• Independent Authority/Industry initiatives have
  had minimal positive effect
• FAA audit data
• Feedback from other authorities
• Data is flat
• Industrys move toward common requirements and
  processes
• Authorities must evolve with industry

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Why This Initiative

• FAA/JAA Conference
• Few Production Airworthiness representatives
• Little time dedicated to Production
  Airworthiness issues
• Saw a need for a separate meeting that would
  include more than FAA and JAA countries.
• Created the Production Airworthiness Conference
  for countries that have a bilateral with the U.S.

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Goal

• Enhance safety globally by working in
  partnership with the international airworthiness
  authorities and industry to establish a system
  where aircraft products and parts...
• Authority actions
• Industry actions

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Authorities

• Production Airworthiness Conference
• First held in Brussels, BL, February 1999
• A one-sided series of presentations by the FAA on
  our processes with discussion from other
  authorities on how the FAA could change to better
  fit their processes.
• Second held in Washington, DC, August 2000
• More of a lets get to know one another through
  presentations from other authorities meeting
• Third held in Brighton, UK, February 2002
• Working meeting where agreements were made to
  work towards common processes and requirements

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Authorities

• Brighton Meeting
• Attended by approximately 40 attendees
  representing 20 countries
• Focus of meeting was on Global Manufacturing
• Authority Actions
• Common Requirements and Processes in PAH
  Surveillance, Supplier Control and Airworthiness
  Certification
• Industry Actions
• Brainstorming identified ?60 ideas of which ?85
  were for the authorities and ?15 were for
  industry

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Authorities

• Brighton Meeting (continued)
• Identified the top ten issues - agreed to work
  three
• Common definitions of terms between authorities
  (priority parts, supplier, subcontractor, etc.)
• Establish minimum supplier surveillance
  standards.
• Authorities to set common supplier control
  standards for manufacturers at some common level
• Recognition of local NAA Production Approval
  system as basis for common surveillance process

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Authorities

• Brighton Meeting (continued)
• Remaining seven issues from the Top Ten
• Global standardisation of authority requirements
  and procedures
• More agreements between authorities recognise
  end products not necessarily harmonise systems
• Common requirements common rules (include other
  parties such as subcontractors)
• Harmonise method to determine the level of
  surveillance that authorities will perform on
  their manufacturers
• Standardise the content of contractor-subcontracto
  r agreement
• Manufacturers only to subcontract activity that
  they have the technical competence to control.
  Only subcontract capacity not capability
• Create common requirements for auditing
  subcontractors by the contractors and use for
  authorities surveillance process

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Current Process
FAA collaborates with
IAQG
AAQG
Problem
AIA GAMA
ARSA ASA
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Current Process Results
IAQG
AAQG
Problem
AIA GAMA
ARSA ASA
No shared vision Poor planning Poor
coordination Redundant efforts Missed industry
segments Missed targets
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Current Initiatives
The IAQG / AAQG have approximately 16 open
Projects and Studies
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Future Direction

• Linking authority and industry initiatives
  through involvement with
• Production and Airworthiness Conference
• FAA/JAA Harmonization Conference
• Industry Association Meetings
• Establish work program based on
• high risk/historical problems
• current initiatives under way
• new initiatives based on Goal statement
• feasibility return on investment
• Establish working groups to design/deliver
  products
• Not Necessarily Industry Group/Association
  Specific

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Summary

• Global Manufacturing remains significant
  challenge
• Past present initiatives have had minimal
  success
• Lack of communication coordination between
  Authorities and Industry have been counter
  productive
• Significant improvements can only be realized if
  the Authorities and Industry collaborate
• common goals
• joint planning
• joint initiatives
• industry-wide acceptance implementation
• monitoring effectiveness

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• Questions