Quality manager joins Nadcap committee

Paul Evans, quality manager at NDT Inspection and Testing, has been appointed one of only two European sector representatives on the recently restructured Nadcap supplier support committee.

Paul Evans, quality manager at NDT Inspection and Testing, has been appointed one of only two European sector representatives on the recently restructured Nadcap supplier support committee.

Paul Evans, quality manager at NDT Inspection and Testing, has been appointed one of only two European sector representatives on the recently restructured Nadcap supplier support committee.

The appointment is for two years and aims to support the supplier community to understand and manage the stringent requirements involved in obtaining Nadcap approval and to improve supplier communications and awareness of Nadcap compliance requirements.

Nadcap is the international programme which allows industry oversight of the quality control and fitness for purpose of specific manufacturing processes and products in the aerospace sector, with the objective of developing a world-class special processor supply base for the global aerospace industry.

By means of specific task groups, it covers special processes from coatings to composites and from heat treatment to welding and integrity testing.

NDT Inspection and Testing recently became the first Supplier Voting Member in the UK to the Non-Destructive Testing task group and is one of only three throughout Europe, enabling direct representation to be made to the major aircraft manufacturers worldwide on a range of quality issues that a affect all industry suppliers in this demanding field.

In his new appointment, Evans will represent the interests of all members of the supplier community, in all task groups in Europe, and work with the Nadcap Management Council to enhance the effectiveness and economic value of the Nadcap system for the mutual benefit of suppliers and primes.

As Evans explained, "NDT Inspection and Testing places great value on its Nadcap Merit status and my new appointment is demonstration of the company's total commitment to quality in general and to the Nadcap programme in particular." NDT Inspection and Testing is one of the UK's largest independent inspection service providers and a centre of excellence for radiographic, advanced ultrasonic imaging and a wide range of more traditional inspection services using state-of-the-art solutions to inspection problems.

It has recently been awarded Merit status for its NDT operations in its Northern, Central and Southern UK sites.

This extends the interval between audits and is widely acknowledged as an endorsement of a company's quality performance commitment to its customers.

The company is also UKAS-approved to ISO EN 17025 and has quality approvals from a number of major aerospace companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, MBDA, BAE Systems and their prime contractors.

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