The new Safety Management Systems (SMS) regulation will be published on Friday April 26. A pre-publication version of the rule is currently available for inspection. The new regulation will expand the applicability of FAA’s SMS rule to include type certificate (TC) holders and production certificate (PC) holders. It will also expand the scope to include … Continue reading
Safety Management Systems (SMS) is being adopted as a standard practice across the manufacturing industry. We will be discussing SMS at the Annual Conference in November. This is a review of the status of SMS regulations for manufacturers in some jurisdictions. United States The FAA is expected to take their existing SMS rule (which applies … Continue reading
The FAA has published a draft Sequencing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for public comment. This is a very important document for the industry and the industry needs to offer their comments. Continue reading
How do you mark and identify PMA parts that are designed to interface with (or attach to) TSOed articles. And how do you identify them on the PMA supplement? This is a challenging issue because the current rules anticipate PMA parts being installed on PC products (not on TSOA articles). This article tackles the identification issue based on existing FAA guidance. Click on the article title to read the entire article. Continue reading
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