UNCONFIRMED MINUTES



UNCONFIRMED MINUTES

22-26 OCTOBER 2007

Pittsburgh Marriott City Center

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania

These minutes are not final until confirmed by the Task Group in writing or by vote at a subsequent meeting. Information herein does not constitute a communication or recommendation from the Task Group and shall not be considered as such by any agency.

MONDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2007 (CLOSED SESSION)

A Closed meeting was held with only Primes attending. During this time the following items were addressed…Audits in Task Group and Staff Engineer Review were reviewed and discussed. A succession plan for the Task Group Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary was reviewed and approved (See attached presentation for details.). Auditor statistics were reviewed to establish auditor performance since July 2007. Staff Engineer Delegation status and maintenance data was reviewed.

MONDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2007 (OPEN SESSION)

1. Opening Comments

1. Call to Order/Quorum Check

The Composites Task Group Meeting was called to order by David Watson at 1:00 pm. A quorum of qualifying members was established. 15 primes

1. Introductions

2. Routing of Attendance List

The attendance list was routed for signatures.

|User Members Present |

|Name | |Company |

|Peter |Atwell |Airbus |

|Mike |Bemis |Goodrich Aerostructures |

|Peter |Bonarrigo |Bombardier |

|Sharon |Bull |Rolls Royce |

|Jeff |Conrad |Cessna Aircraft Co. |

|Marty |Couey |Hawker Beechcraft |

|Lucia |Cutillo |Alenia Aeronautica |

|Marsha |Davis |Lockheed Martin |

|Kevin |Dowling |Spirit AeroSystems |

|Joe |Dwyer |Rolls Royce |

|M’hamed |El Haouari |Bombardier Aerospace (Canada) |

|Marcel |Francois |SAFRAN Group |

|Arceli-Angelina |Gabriel |The Boeing Company |

|Udo |Goessler |Eurocopter |

|Olivier |Goupillon |Eurocopter |

|Brett |Hemingway |BAE Systems |

|Mark |Jackson |Vought |

|Jamar |Johnson |Bell Helicopter |

|Betty |Kocsis |Honeywell |

|Doug |Ladd |The Boeing Company |

|Eric |LeFort |Sonaca |

|Frank |Lennert |The Boeing Company |

|Lance |Loeks |The Boeing Company |

|William |Macias |Goodrich |

|Leah |Markowitz |Honeywell |

|Andreas |Mastorakis |GE Aviation |

|Patricia |Matkowski |The Boeing Company |

|Angelina |Mendoza |Goodrich |

|Rick |Ouellette |The Boeing Company |

|Keith |Panuska |Lockheed Martin |

|Doug |Prenovost |Northrop Grumman |

|Engin |Sabuncu |Cessna Aircraft Co. |

|Gregory |Sayler |MD Helicopters |

|Frank |Thomas |Bombardier |

|David |Watson |Bombardier |

|Other Participants/Members Present |

|Name | |Company |

|Richard |Alkire |Hexcel, WA |

|Frank |Anderson |The M&P Lab |

|Michael |Ashton |Hexcel |

|Bryon |Ater |BG & S Peening and Consulting |

|John |Augsback |Parkway Products |

|Mitch |Birzer |General Dynamics |

|Robert |Bragg |General Dynamics |

|Paul |Braun |Cincinnati Testing Laboratories |

|John |Brunet |OCM Test Labs |

|Elmer |Cardwell |General Dynamics |

|Michelle E. |Colunga |OOALC Hill AFB |

|Eric |Dirats |Dirats Labs |

|Ben |Flores |AASC |

|Brian |Gallagher |Henkel |

|Miguel |Gerdel |Thermal Structures |

|Phillip |Gill |Royal Plastic Mfg |

|Niko V. |Gjaja |The M&P Lab |

|Dane |Gowryluk |Bristol Aerospace |

|Dave |Gray |Mitchell Labs |

|John |Graham |DACA Machine and Tool |

|James |Kernan |Corpus Christi Army Depot |

|Dave |Kimber |ATK Aerospace Structures |

|J.F. |Lemmen |Denel SAAB Aerostructures |

|Jessica |Mager |Avcorp Industries |

|Mary |Marshall |Albany Engineered Composites |

|June |Mason |Albany Engineered Composites |

|Brian |McCrory |Delsen Testing Laboratories |

|T.W. |Newton |Aircraft X-Ray Labs |

|W.F. |Newton |Aircraft X-Ray Labs |

|Yeow |Ng |NCAMP |

|Krish |Patni |D-J Engineering |

|Art |Pecant |DACA Machine and Tool |

|Steve |Peery |CHI |

|Duane |Praymayer |Bristol Aerospace |

|Jim |Rossi |Westmoreland Mech Testing & Research |

|Don |Russell |Toray Composites |

|Victor |Schonberger |Israel Aerospace Industries |

|Steve |Schrameyer |Cytec Engineered Materials |

|Dave |Scott |Hitco Carbon Composites |

|Jean |Scott |OO-ALC Hill AFB |

|Jeff |Sharp |General Dynamics |

|Andy |Sinclair |Bodycote Testing Group |

|Steve |Stafford |General Dynamics |

|Gene |Stupin |General Dynamics |

|Gary |Thompson |Darotem Engineering |

|David |Tomasitis |PTI Industries |

|Dennis |Walmsley |Brookhouse Composites Ltd. |

|Fritz |Watson |AASC |

|PRI Staff Present |

|Rebekah Foutz |PRI Staff (Warrendale, PA) |

3. Review of Agenda

The Staff Engineer (Rebekah Foutz) reviewed the agenda for this Composites Task Group, October 2007, Nadcap meeting in Pittsburg, PA with the Task Group members present.

4. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the 16-20 July 2007 Composites Task Group Meeting were reviewed. A motion was made for approval of the minutes, seconded, and all were in favor with no disapprovals. Therefore, the minutes were approved as written. All meeting minutes will be available on the PRI web site at pri-.

5. Secession Planning Announcement

1. Succession plan for the Task Group Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary was reviewed and approved.

1. Each position will have a term of two years minimum. The vice chair moves to chair position and a new vice chair will be selected. The secretary position will be asked to alternate among volunteers.

2. The following are the members who will be transitioning into each position:

• Mike Bemis – Composites Task Group Chair

• Kevin Dowling – Composites Task Group Vice Chair

• Leah Markowitz – Task Group Secretary

3. The transition will be as follows:

• During the February 2008 meeting, Mike Bemis will transition the Secretary role to Leah Markowitz. During the October 2008 meeting, David Watson will transition the chair to Mike Bemis and Andreas Mastorakis will transition the vice chair to Kevin Dowling. The two year term period begins in October 2008.

2. Staff/Auditor Report

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1. Specific items of interest to the Composites Task Group since July 2007 included:

1. 11 Primes have mandated AC7118 Rev A

2. Conducted annual Auditor Training

3. 2007 Audit Projections

• 150 Projected

• 125 scheduled/conducted 66/36/23 in America/Europe/Asia respectively

• 83% of plan

• 73 certifications issued

4. Pareto of Nonconformances

• An updated NCR Pareto chart was presented which detailed the most recurring findings to date for Composites audits conducted in 83 past audits. The Paragraph in which findings were most prevalent was 11.3.2 – Are document work instructions available to operator and does the procedure(s) accurately reflect the manufacturing process?

• This presentation, including the specific questions, can be viewed on under Public Documents – Composites.

6. Auditor Base Status

5. The current auditor base status was presented to the Task Group. There are currently 6 auditors with one located in the Europe Sector and 5 located in the Americas Sector.

6. ITAR/EAR

1. 125 composite audits

2. 53 of them (46%) have no ITAR/EAR restrictions

3. Metrics

1. PRI presented the Composites Task Group metrics and reviewed the status of each.

▪ Year to date audits – Green

- Goal is to have excess capacity of 30%

- Actual excess capacity is 57%

▪ Certs issued – Green

- Goal is to have ................
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