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IAQG ASD Industry Specific Knowledge Course (TCSS 002) - eLearning

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This e-Learning IAQG-certified course provides personnel with Aviation, Space and Defence (ASD) industry specific knowledge and demonstrable understanding of the principles, requirements, controls and application of the ASD topics.

IAQG approved (certified) course (TCSS 002)

The requirements contained in IAQG Training Course Specification Sheet (TCSS 002) are met in full (24 CPD hours credit)

also meets the AS13100 (Table 5) regulatory training requirements

The course includes detailed introductions of the principles, requirements, controls and application across the ASD industry.

course planning and delivery in full conformity with IAQG Course Planning and Delivery Requirements (TCSS 005)

Course details

Introduction to this e-Learning Course and Delegate Workbook

  • e-Learning course instructions

  • Exercise: download Delegate Workbook

Advanced product quality planning (APQP) & Production part approval process (PPAP) – AS9145

  • What is APQP?

  • What is PPAP?

  • PPAP submission/re-submission

  • APQP & PPAP applicability and application

  • Product Development Process (PDP)

  • AS9145 and related ASD standards

  • AS9145 quality tools/techniques and conformity

  • The APQP phases

  • Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

  • APQP ‘cascade’ through PBS & PDP

  • Benefits of, and Obstacles to, APQP deployment

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 4.1 (a) Advanced product quality planning (APQP) & Production part approval process (PPAP) – AS9145

  • 4.1 (b) Advanced product quality planning (APQP) & Production part approval process (PPAP) – AS9145

  • 4.1 (c) Advanced product quality planning (APQP) & Production part approval process (PPAP) – AS9145

Change control

  • Design activities, design authority and configuration

  • AS9116 requirements for Notice of Change (NOC)

  • Notice Of Change (NOC) submittal process

  • Change proposal information and change types

  • NOC data and NOC form

  • Change impact analysis tool (IAQG template)

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.11 Change control

Containment, cause analysis, and corrective action

  • AS9100 and ARP9136 requirements

  • The 8D process

  • The 8D stages and ‘deliverables’

  • The 8D steps

  • Visualizing the 8D steps and timelines

  • Case Study – background

  • D0 – start immediate containment and define problem

  • D0 – Illustration

  • D1 – appoint the 8D practitioner (i.e. facilitator) who establishes the team

  • D1 – Illustration

  • D2 – define and quantify the problem

  • D2 – Illustration

  • D3 – complete, optimize and verify interim containment actions

  • D3 – Illustration

  • D4 – determine and prove root cause(s) including ‘human factors’

  • D4 – Illustration

  • D5 – define and select permanent corrective actions

  • D5 – Illustration

  • D6 – implement and validate permanent corrective action(s) – check their efficacy

  • D6 – Illustration

  • D7 – prevent recurrence of the problem and promulgate the solution

  • D7 – Illustration

  • D8 – recognise and congratulate the team

  • D8 – Illustration

  • The 8D Report

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 4.3 (a) Containment, cause analysis, and corrective action

  • 4.3 (b) Containment, cause analysis, and corrective action

Configuration, identification and traceability

  • Defining configuration and configuration management

  • ISO 10007:2017 ~ Quality management – Guidelines for configuration management

  • Applicable terms and definitions

  • Importance of configuration and configuration management

  • AS9100 configuration management requirements

  • Objective of configuration management

  • Configuration management process

  • Principles and functions of configuration management

  • Configuration management functions and principles

  • Configuration management application in the product life cycle

  • Program life cycle configuration progress

  • Configuration management building blocks

  • Configuration management tools

  • Part identification and traceability

  • Configuration item identification numbers

  • Identification (marking) of aerospace parts

  • Part marking in the aerospace sector

  • Defining product traceability

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.2 Configuration, identification and traceability

Critical items and Key characteristics

  • Interrelationship of special requirements, critical items and key characteristics

  • Special requirement (SR)

  • Critical Item (CI)

  • Key Characteristic (KC)

  • AS9103 ~ Aerospace Series – Quality Management Systems Variation

  • Management of Key Characteristics

  • Defining statistical control

  • Establishing statistical control

  • Sequence: statistical control ~ process capability

  • Process ‘capability’ determination

  • AS9103 – Process Control Document (PCD)

  • Ongoing monitoring of KCs

  • Monitoring using the 8 industry standard tests

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.12 (a) Critical items and Key characteristics

  • 1.12 (b) Critical items and Key characteristics

Design and development

  • Product development process (PDP)

  • Product design and development process

  • The DfM, DfA and DfMA approaches

  • Design Failure Mode & Effects (DFMEA)

  • Design verification plan and report

  • Design validation testing

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 2.1 Design and development

First article inspection (9102)

  • Purpose of a FAIR

  • FAI planning activities, requirement and steps

  • Status of a FAI and partial FAI requirements

  • The FAIR forms and their contents

  • Control of FAI records and variable/attribute data

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.1 (a) First article inspection (9102)

  • 1.1 (b) First article inspection (9102)

External provider approval and control

  • Understanding AS9100 ‘external provider’ requirements

  • Approval status and performance monitoring

  • Demonstrating products/services meet requirements

  • Delegated verification and test reports

  • Work transfer requirements

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.3 External provider approval and control

Human factors

  • Human factors in aerospace/defence

  • Identifying possible human factors

  • Identifying and verifying probable human factors

  • Countering human factors – remove blame, boost results

  • Designing human factors training programmes

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 2.3 (a) Human factors

  • 2.3 (b) Human factors

Foreign object damage/debris (FOD) prevention program

  • FOD – terminology, definitions and consequences

  • FO and the escalation to FOd resulting in FOD

  • The AS9146:2017 standard and requirements

  • The NAS 412 guidance document

  • Program Management (4.1)

  • Operations (4.2) and Area designation (4.3)

  • Examples of signage and area designation

  • Examples of signage/area designation and entry permissions

  • Training and personnel access (4.4) and Product protection (4.5)

  • Housekeeping and clean-as-you-go (4.6) and consumables, hardware, and personal items accountability and control (4.7)

  • Tool accountability and control (4.8)

  • *Knowledge checklist

  • 2.4 (a) Foreign object damage/debris (FOD) prevention program

  • 2.4 (b) Foreign object damage/debris (FOD) prevention program

Material handling and preservation of products

  • AS9100 requirements for material handling and preservation of products

  • Minimum requirements for product preservation

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.4 Material handling and preservation of products

Nonconforming material management

  • AS9100 requirements for nonconforming product containment and disposition

  • AS9100 requirements associated with the scraping of products

  • AS9100 requirements for responding to nonconformities

  • Knowledge checklist

  • *1.5 Nonconforming material management

Operational risk management

  • Identification of operational risks

  • Proactive management of operational risks

  • Concepts of risk management and Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)

  • FMEA cross-functional team

  • PFMEA emphasis, scope, prioritization and plan

  • Process Flow Diagram (PFD)

  • Identifying sources of variation

  • The PFMEA ‘worksheet’ – detailed PFMEA risk analysis

  • Ranking risk – [S], [O] & [D]

  • Sources of FMEA Rankings & Action Priority (AP)

  • Risk evaluation and prioritizing actions

  • The PFMEA worksheet ‘sections’

  • Deploying action plans – improvement strategies

  • Revision control of PFMEA documents

  • Knowledge checklist

  • *1.6 (a) Operational risk management

  • *1.6 (b) Operational risk management

Special processes, including Nadcap

  • Defining ‘special processes’

  • Nadcap (Nadcap is not an acronym today!)

  • Nadcap – eAuditNet

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.7 (a) Special processes, including Nadcap

  • 1.7 (b) Special processes, including Nadcap

Sampling inspection or testing

  • Requirements and reasons for sampling

  • Sampling terminology

  • Consumer’s Risk vs. Producer’s Risk

  • OC (operating characteristic) curve

  • Engineering specifications vs. Consumer protection

  • Defining sampling inspection/testing and AS9138

  • Sampling inspection schemes

  • Example: Sampling inspection tables

  • Example: Sampling inspection tables (Minitab®)

  • C=0 sampling plans

  • Reasons for adopting C=0 sampling plans

  • Comparisons of sample plans types

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.8 Sampling inspection or testing

ASD regulatory requirements

  • Fundamental aviation terminology

  • Aeronautical (type certificated) ‘products’

  • Aeronautical articles (parts and appliances)

  • Aeronautical ‘critical parts/components’

  • International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

  • European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)

  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

  • CAAC – Civil Aviation Administration of China

  • Military Aviation Authority (MAA)

  • National Aviation Authority (NAA)

  • Hierarchy and structure of the ‘implementing rules’

  • Definitions of design, production and maintenance aeronautical organizations

  • Annex I – Part 21 ~ design-production coordination

  • Requirements for a production organization’s QMS

  • Form 1 – Authorised Release Certificate

  • Sources of additional information –

  • AMC, GM and ‘Easy Access Rules’

  • EASA eRules – aviation rules for the 21st century

  • Type Certificate (TC) – for aeronautical products

  • Technical Standard Order (TSO) – for aeronautical articles

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 3.1 (a) ASD regulatory requirements

  • 3.2 (b) ASD regulatory requirements

  • 3.2 (c) ASD regulatory requirements

Safety management systems (SMS)

  • Defining a Safety Management System (SMS)

  • 1. Safety policy

  • 2. Safety Risk Management

  • 3. Safety assurance

  • 4. Safety promotion

  • Relationship between the SMS and the QMS

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.9 Safety management systems (SMS)

Product safety

  • Understanding the need for product safety

  • AS9100 requirements relating to product safety

  • Understanding ‘hazards’ and ‘risks’

  • AS9100 product safety requirements

  • Assessment of hazards and management of associated risks ~ reactive

  • Assessment of hazards and management of associated risks ~ proactive

  • The “6M” method analysis of events affecting safety

  • Role of ‘communication’ and ‘awareness’

  • Creating a ‘just culture’ and ‘ethical behaviour’

  • The drivers and consequences of non-compliance

  • Definition and role of compliance training

  • Targets and methods of safety training

  • Air crash deaths – minuscule but don’t get complacent!

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 2.3 (a) Product safety

  • 2.3 (b) Product safety

Production processes and product verification/validation

  • Production processes – controlled conditions

  • Turtle diagram – visualizing controlled conditions

  • AS9100 requirements for production processes

  • Avoiding errors in the workplace

  • Instilling consistent use of work instructions

  • Product verification/validation

  • Product testing requirements

  • Knowledge checklist

  • 1.10 Production processes and product verification/validation

Prevention of counterfeit parts

  • Definition of counterfeit parts

  • Counterfeit parts commodity types

  • Standards/Guides relating to counterfeit parts

  • AS9100 requirements

  • Personnel (awareness) training

  • Parts obsolescence monitoring programme

  • Controls for acquiring genuine product

  • Proactive risk identification/mitigation

  • Assuring traceability of parts and components

  • Reasons for losing traceability

  • Verification and test methodologies to detect counterfeit parts

  • Monitoring of counterfeit parts reporting from external sources

  • Quarantine and reporting of suspect or detected counterfeit parts

  • Knowledge checklist

Qualifications & benefits

This e-Learning course can be complete in 24- to 30-hours.

Downloadable certificate of successful completion, indicating the examination/assessment criteria has been met.

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