Top quality standard - Fed up with multiple manufacturing process audits from various aerospace companies? Nadcap is hailed as the answer: an industry-standard approach

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Heard of Nadcap? If you are supplying services such as shot-peening, EDM, ECAA, heat treatment, NOT or laser processing to aerospace primes and their suppliers, then you have or you will, Nadcap is becoming an ever more frequently heard term around the supplier base. Shot-peening specialist Impact Finishers, part of the Wheelabrator Group, first heard the term in 2004, explains the company's quality manager, Christian Tyroll, "The year before last we started to receive communications about Nadcap from Rolls-Royce and Boeing, Both Boeing and Rolls-Royce have made Nadcap accreditation mandatory for shot-peening and/bthers are now getting on board. But before that we had had communications about SAE AS9100 (see page 70), which is an extension of the ISO 9000:2000 standard with additions covering aerospace issues such as controlling inspection stamps, In fact, you have to have SAE AS9100, or another nominated equivalent standard, before you can go for Nadcap."