Nadcap: Friend or foe to the supplier?

Author:  Shot Peening Staff
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 20 / Issue 1, Winter 2006
Doc ID:  2006002
Year of Publication:  2006
Abstract:  
The Nadcap program is administered by the not-for-profit Performance Review Institute (PRI). PRI's stated goal is to ensure that aircraft and aero-engines are of the highest quality to ultimately protect the public. Before Nadcap, the responsibility for assuring subcontractor quality was shouldered by individual aerospace companies. Nadcap believes that it will assist the industry in working together to end the duplication of effort, the inconsistent application of standards and the unnecessary costs associated with redundant audits. Nadcap goes on to state that it will actually reduce redundant auditing in the aerospace industry because it: -Establishes stringent industry consensus standards that satisfy the requirements of all participants -Reduces routine special process audits -Conducts more in-depth, technically superior special process audits -Improves supplier quality throughout industry through stringent requirements -Reduces costs through improved standardization -Utilizes technically superior auditors to assure process familiarity -Provides more frequent audits for primes, fewer audits for suppliers