BS/EN 9278-2018 pdf download.Aerospace series – General Principles of Obsolescence Management of chemicals, materials and processes.
— customer monitoring (identification of customers’ requirements);
— supplier monitoring (sharing requirements with the suppliers, being proactive with them on the subject of obsolescences, etc.);
— commercial and financial monitoring (suppliers);
— tactical monitoring: policy produced by suppliers (decision of halting a production), interprofessional pooling:
— strategic monitoring (technological road map, market trends);
— internal monitoring: availability of the organisation’s resources (means, competences);
— monitoring of practices and crafts.
For these distinct perimeters, weak signals shall be taken into account in order to support a risk proactive approach. For example, monitoring is likely to be alerted by the evolution of the financial condition of a supplier, the evolution of order volumes and the perspectives concerning materials, processes, mechanical parts, etc.
This monitoring comes under all the organisation operators, but a dedicated network should be structured, covering the totality of monitoring perimeters and able to gather the maximum information possible (common means), within the organisation or outside it (customers, suppliers, professional unions, higher level organisations, etc.) in order to supply obsolescence management.
This network must be able to analyse these information and, when relevant, to alert at the earliest the
organisation in case of obsolescences proven and endured.
This monitoring may be passive or active, especially when orders are less frequent with a supplier.
Active monitoring consists in gathering and analysing information (ensuring at the utmost that data are collected exhaustively) after the perimeter is defined. It includes interrogating the supply chain and/or databases. To this end, a unique format of interrogation of the supply chain can be implemented. For example, in respect to the REACH regulation Article 33, the RG.Aéro 000 714 provides with a protocol acknowledged by the aerospace sector. The Safety Data Sheets (SDS) constitute an information source as [or the composition of chemicals. However these sheets are not exhaustive on the product compositions.
Passive monitoring refers to the case in which the organisation receives information naturally and analyses it.
5.7 Contractualising obsolescence management
Contractual requirements should be developed throughout the supply chain.
Here a contractual requirement reference document should be defined for suppliers, in order to obtain the information necessary to obsolescence management.
These obsolescences clauses specify:
— notification modes (means and schedules);
— participative fees for the solution in case the notification deadline was not observed;
— stock constitution modes if relevant (minimum quantity).
These clauses are progressively applied through new collaborations or renewal of existing collaborations.
This service is offered following various options, which are:
— Monitoring and detection of potential, proven or endured obsolescences: the list of obsolete components is established and annually updated for a product or a list of products. No solution is required.
NOTE This case can only apply for a supplier of components.
— Inquiry: one or several solutions are considered and offered once obsolescence is proven for a product or a list of products. Their implementation is subject to the agreement of the organisation that finances them. The study of these solutions can be required before the obsolescence Is proven.
— Complete resolving of the case: in compliance with the specification, the supplier guarantees that his products will not be subject to manufacturing or reparation halts due to obsolescences.
When the organisation supplies the material necessary to its supplier, the organisation is in charge of obsolescence.
6 What comes under the programme
6.1 General
The following tasks belong to the programme:
— assessing necessary budgets and ensuring a financing in order to implement processes.
The totality of these tasks shall rely on programme management and chosen norms, for example
EN 9200.
6.2 Collecting the programme speciticities
Programme specific data that may have consequences on the obsolescence management plan should be gathered:
— development, production and support durations during the operating and maintenance phases;
— industrial structure;
EXAMPLE Transfer of production, technologies, development, depth of supply chain, etc.
— produced quantity (units, multi-units, series, etc.);
— import requirements and export controls (e.g.: ITAR);
— specific customer’s requirements (e.g.: forbidden chemicals);
— requirements of configuration management (see EN 9223-100);
— organisation’s specific requirements;
— feedbacks capitalised by the organisation during similar cases.
6.3 Defining the strategy at the programme level
The programme manager defines his working method (strategy) consistently with the organisation and programme structure in a specific chapter of the programme management plan or of the risk management plan, or in a plan dedicated to the obsolescence management. This strategy specifies the chosen structure, in agreement with his organisation, programme and client’s practices.
Implementing this strategy aims at making the product as resistant as possible to obsolescence. As such its mission is essentially proactive. This strategy brings the information pieces to the programme manager concerning the identified risks, helps in decision processes aiming at reducing these risks and keeps track of the decision elements in document managed in configuration (e.g., the definition justification data tile, following the RG.Aéro 000 15).BS/EN 9278-2018 pdf download.
BS/EN 9278-2018 pdf download
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