In response to feedback, Nadcap has launched a new Task Group for Conventional Machining. The audits will cover a variety of hole making processes, broaching, turning, milling, grinding and edge treatment, such as hand benching, mass finishing and automated processes.
“Many major aerospace companies have internal systems to qualify and audit suppliers performing critical conventional machining processes,” explained the Chair of this new Task Group, John Pfeiffer of GE Aviation. “It makes sense to utilise the infrastructure of PRI - which already administers many process accreditations through Nadcap - to identify common industry requirements that can be audited through one series of checklists, assuring compliance while saving both the primes and suppliers time and money.”
Following more than a year spent in checklist development and four pilot audits to validate the checklists, the Conventional Machining Task Group was approved by the Nadcap Management Council at the February 2010 Nadcap meeting in Rome, Italy.
Arshad Hafeez, PRI's executive director of global business operations welcomed this development: “By adding a new Task Group to the fourteen already in operation, aerospace quality experts are further demonstrating their trust in the Nadcap programme to delivery timely, accurate and cost-effective accreditations throughout the global industry as part of PRI's Customer Solutions & Support (CS&S) mandate.”
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