IMS is experiencing high growth within the aerospace industry and require some additional sub-contract auditors for the AS9100 and AS9120 standards.
If you are interested or know of anyone who would be interested then please contact IMS through the contact details on our website.
Its many years behind schedule and Millions of Dollars over budget but it looks like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is finally about to take off. The Dreamliner is approximately 50% composite which is relatively new technology when applied to the aerospace industry and probably a large factor in the delays to the aircraft.
I wonder if Boeing get in trouble for late deliveries as I know their suppliers get in trouble?
At an event at Boeing’s facility in Everett, Washington, Administrator Babbitt presented Boeing executives with two certificates for the design and production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner with Rolls-Royce engines.
“Today’s achievement could not have been possible without the professionalism and dedication of the FAA team involved in the certification,” said Administrator Babbitt. “The engineers, inspectors and flight test pilots all worked diligently to ensure our high safety standards were met.”
Boeing made its initial application to the FAA on March 28, 2003 and the program was launched in April 2004. The first 787 rollout ceremony was on July 8, 2007 at Boeing’s Everett assembly factory. The airplane first flew on Dec. 15, 2009, and the six flight test airplanes have since accumulated more than 4,645 flight hours, with approximately 25 percent of those hours flown by FAA flight test crews. More than 200,000 hours were logged by FAA technical experts who were involved in the type certification of the 787.
The airplane will use 20 percent less fuel and produce less noise compared to similarly sized airplanes. It was designed and manufactured by suppliers and partners around the world and integrated at final assembly. The 787 incorporates many capabilities of the nation’s Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen.
The European Safety Agency (EASA) also issued a same day validation of the FAA Type Certificate of the 787.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued on Friday 26 August 2011 to Boeing a Type Certificate for the Boeing 787-8 aircraft. This EASA certificate recognises that Boeing has demonstrated compliance to the EASA Type Certification Basis with applicable airworthiness and environmental requirements.
When handing over EASA type-certificate to Boeing, Patrick Goudou, EASA Executive Director said: “This is a great achievement. I am particularly proud of the dedication and efficiency demonstrated by EASA certification teams in dealing with new certification challenges such as the use of composite material which account for more than 50% of the aircraft’s primary structure”.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and EASA worked closely together during the certification of the aircraft, the FAA being the primary authority for all American designs, and EASA the validating authority. Boeing received the FAA Type Certificate simultaneously at a joint ceremony organised Friday in Seattle.
Type certification is a prerequisite to the first delivery to airline customers. The Boeing 787-8 has now completed all certification requirements prior to its entry into service later this year with the Japanese Airline All Nippon Airways (ANA). The first European airline to operate the Boeing 787-8 will be Poland’s national carrier LOT with the first delivery expected in March 2012.
The Boeing 787-8 can carry between 210 and 250 passengers over a distance of 7,650-8,200 nautical miles (14,200-15,200 km). Its in-service record will now be monitored through continuing airworthiness activities.
Above information is courtesy of EASA.
BREEAM is an environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings and now has over 200,000 buildings with certified BREEAM assessment ratings and over a million registered for assessment since it was first launched in 1990. Many clients of IMS apply the BREEAM requirements to their management systems and in some cases have achieved considerable energy and cost savings by introducing the requirements.
BREEAM sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design, construction and operation and has become one of the most comprehensive and widely recognised measures of a building’s environmental performance.
A BREEAM assessment uses recognised measures of performance, which are set against established benchmarks, to evaluate a building’s specification, design, construction and use and will begin from the planning stage. The measures used represent a broad range of categories and criteria from energy to ecology and include aspects related to energy and water use, the internal environment (health and well-being), pollution, transport, materials, waste, ecology and management processes.
An initial assessment establishes the potential performance of the building and this is monitored and improved throughout the project to receive a full score at the end. The scoring mechanism is stringent and to achieve a good or excellent rating is a significant achievement.
A Certificated BREEAM assessment is delivered by a licensed organisation, using assessors trained under a UKAS accredited competent person scheme, at various stages in a buildings life cycle. This provides clients, developers, designers and others with:
Clients, planners development agencies, funders and developers use BREEAM to specify the sustainability performance of their buildings in a way that is quick, comprehensive, highly visible in the marketplace and provides a level playing field.
Property agents use it to promote the environmental credentials and benefits of a building to potential purchasers and tenants.
Design teams use it as a method to improve the performance of their buildings and their own experience and knowledge of environmental aspects of sustainability.
Managers use it to reduce running costs, measure and improve the performance of buildings, empower staff, develop action plans and monitor and report performance at both the single building and portfolio level.
For Further information visit the BREEAM website
ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems will establish a framework for industrial plants, commercial facilities or entire organizations to manage energy. Targeting broad applicability across national economic sectors, the standard could influence up to 60 % of the world’s energy use.
Energy is critical to organisational operations and can be a major cost, whatever the activities. An idea can be gained by considering the use of energy through the supply chain of a business, from raw materials through to recycling and thinking about not only the cost impact but the environmental impact.
ISO 50001 will provide public and private sector organisations with management strategies to increase energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve energy performance.
The standard is intended to provide organisations with a recognised framework for integrating energy performance into their management practices and can be integrated with ISO 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 due to its common elements.
For further information on the ISO 50001:2011 standard, download the publication from the ISO Standards website here
The new Aerospace standards are now in full swing and organisations are begining to be assessed to the new versions of AS9100, AS9120 and AS9110 (2009 versions).
Many users of the old standards will be familiar with the AS9101 checklist and some organisations used this for their internal audit processes. The AS9101 document has been revised and is now an integral part of any organisations aerospace management system and careful consideration needs to be given to its use. Although it is not a mandatory document to be used internally, organisations seeking approval to any aerospace standard needs to be aware of its contents as there are significant requirements built into the AS9101 document which need to be complied with in order to gain certification.
One of the major changes within the standards is the requirement to audit by process rather than clause based auditing. Organisations need to ensure that they are performing effective internal audits by using the process approach to not only verify that the system is in compliance with the standard requirements but to also ensure that inputs and outputs to each process is defined and the process interactions are being controlled. Further information on process based auditing will follow in subsequent blog updates.
Processes need to be identified and controlled, there are no defined methods for this but tools such as process flowcharts, turtle diagrams and SIPOCS are commonly used.
You will find within the AS9101 document a form called the Process Effectiveness Assessment Report, commonly known as the PEAR. This is a tool which will be used by the Certification Body and can be used by organisations if they wish. It will help organisations to identify the processes within their system, the monitoring and measurement requirements within that process and to establish if that process is effective. Organisations can be compliant to the requirements of the standard but the process can be ineffective if it is not meeting the monitoring and measurement results required by the system or customer requirements.
There are many requirements built within the AS9101 document which need to be complied with and Certification Bodies will be requiring a significant amount of information to aid in the planning of the audit prior to any auditing activities taking place.
ISO is Short form of International Organization for Standard. ISO 9001:2008 require an organization to develop a quality management system that fits the product & Process requirement as well as regulatory requirement AS an ISO 9001:2008 certified company.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) presents statistics on European and worldwide civil aviation safety on an annual basis. The statistics are grouped according to type of operation, for instance commercial air trasnsport, and aircraft category, such as aeroplanes, helicopters and gliders.
2010 was a very good year for aviation safety in Europe. It was the first year that no fatal accident in commercial air transport operations occured in the history of aviation in Europe both for helicopter and aeroplane operations. Also, the fatal rate of scheduled passenger operations with aeroplanes was significantly lower in Europe than in the rest of the world.
The total number of accidents for commercial air transporters within the 27 European Union Member States of EASA was 26, the number of fatal accidents was 0 which is the first time this has ever occured which shows that continued safety systems introductions within the Aerospace Industry.
The total number of accidents for aircraft below 2250 kg within the 27 member states of EASA was 449, the number of fatal accidents was 53 which although high, is consirably lower than 2009 figures of 533 accidents and 65 fatalities. 15% of these accidents were related to Business travel.
In other world regions the number of fatal accidents increased from 39 to 47.
Between the years of 1948 and 1968 there was a 10 fold improvement from 5 to 0.5 fatalities per 100 million passenger miles flown. For 2010 this rate is estimated’ to have stayed at 0.01 fatalities per 100 million miles flown.
The types of accidents vary but there are observations made and trends identified. In recent years the proportion of accidents which included the categorisation of ARC (Abnormal Runway Contact) has overall increased. Such accidents usually involve long, fast or hard landings. Often during such accidents the landing hear or other parts of the aircrat are damaged. There is also an increase in the percentage of accidents involving RAMP (ground handling) events. These accidents involve damage to the aircraft by vehicles or ground equipment or the incorrect loading of an aeroplane. We will all be pleased to know that accidents attributed as (DFIT) ‘controlled flight into terrain’ appear to have an overall decreasing percentage (think that means crashing into trees).
The most significant accident category in relation to Air Traffic Management issues is the ‘collision between aircraft moving on the ground and vehicle/person/obstruction(s)’. The root cause of these reported accidents is ‘unauthorised penettration of airspace (also known as airspace infringements), aircraft deviation from Air Traffic Control clearance.
Download the full EASA Annual Safety Review 2010.
All certification bodies were required to be approved to offer the new AS9100, AS9120 and AS9110 certification services as of 1st July 2011.
All audits within the aerospace sector from now on have to be performed to the new revision, audits to the old revisions are not valid and will not be performed.
All organisations currently holding an old revision certificate have to be fully compliant by 1st July 2012.
Ensure that you are ready for your next assessment and that you have signed your declaration regarding your compliance to the new standard.
If you need any advice or information on your own certification then please do not hesiate to contact IMS International.
Spaces still available for the IRCA Registered ISO 14001:2004 Lead Auditor course held in Redditch 25th – 29th July 2011.
To book a space contact IMS on 01376 500068 or email info {at} imsworld(.)org
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