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Nadcap is the
leading worldwide cooperative
program of major companies designed to manage a cost-effective
consensus approach to special processes & products and provide
continuous improvement within the aerospace and automotive industries.
Nadcap
Mission
The Nadcap
mission is to provide international,
unbiased, independent manufacturing process and product assessments and
certification services for the purpose of adding value, reducing total
cost, and facilitating relationships between primes and suppliers.
Expert
Resource provides Nadcap consulting
Nadcap
process and product certification is provided by Performance Review Institute.
PRI is the only auditing company approved by the aerospace industry to
offer official certification audits.
Expert
Resource provides full Nadcap
consulting and training services such as Nadcap training, gap
assessments, document development, internal auditing, and NCR
(corrective actions) consulting services to prepare a company for the
PRI Nadcap audit. 100% of our clients (hundreds) pass their first
attempt at certification!
Funding:
Many of our clients qualify for State
and/or US Federal funding for
training. This reimburses costs associated with consulting and
registration. Please contact
us
for more information.
Nadcap
Programs
There are
various Nadcap quality standards for
different products, manufacturing processes and services. Please click
on any of the standards listed below for a more detailed listing.
Each of the
Nadcap Programs above include
sub-programs. For instance, Heat Treatment has at least 10 Alloy
Families, 16 Processes, and 3 Services.
To view the Nadcap
Audit Checklist Listing, please Click
Here.
Why
become Nadcap Accredited?
There are two
primary reasons for seeking
accreditation. The most obvious reason is that your customer is making
accreditation mandatory for doing business. The second reason is
because the various standards will ensure that consensus-based best
practices are implemented for increasing quality of a product process
or service. ISO 9000 only prescribes general requirements for business
management. Nadcap goes much further to ensure the quality of a
specific area of your business, based on detailed and proven
methodologies.
How
do you implement Nadcap?
Expert
Resource provides a step-by-step roadmap for accreditation.
Typically, the first step is to implement AS9100 or AC7004
(International Aerospace Quality Management Systems). ER specializes in
the integration of these requirements with comprehensive training,
consulting and document development.
After
conformance with one of these Quality
Management Systems, the next step is for ER to perform a Nadcap gap
assessment to one or more specific product, process or service
standards/specifications/audit checklists. The result is a gap
assessment report, which will identify each objective finding, its
interpretation for your company’s specific operations, and
recommendations for corrective actions. This gas assessment report will
dictate the customization of an Expert Resource proposal for
Nadcap-specific implementation.
ER will
provide hands-on assistance for each
Nadcap program, which may include a gap assessment, process
development, training, internal audit, PRI Nadcap audit preparation and
any assistance with NCR corrective actions.
Expert
Resource’s roadmap to Nadcap
Accreditation will put you on the road to success. By contacting ER,
you are ensuring that your Nadcap system will be done right the first
time with experts in your industry. ER will expedite your timeline to
accreditation and will minimize your internal business disruption with
our hands-on approach.
Non-Conformance
Reporting with Root Cause & Corrective Action Training
ER provides a
one-day session of on-site training
for non-conformance reporting with root cause analysis and corrective
action training (NCR-RCCA).
Lack of proper NCR-RCCA training is
the area of Nadcap compliance in which most companies will fail, adding
unforeseen costs to the program and build months of frustration. To
prevent Nadcap audit failures and build on the Nadcap Merit Program
(reducing auditing costs), ER highly recommends that all Top
Management, Quality Personnel, and Nadcap-related process personnel
attend this one-day training session. Each session will allow a maximum
of 20 trainees. Nadcap has a very stringent and particular format for
NCR-RCCA. Nadcap requires that teams of employees work together on each
NCR-RCCA found during the PRI audit. Therefore, teams should be trained
together, have a common approach and unified expectations.
| Nadcap Testimonials for Expert Resource |
"Our choice to use Expert Resource for developing an effective Quality
Management System was instrumental in attaining a Nadcap accreditation.
The experience and industry background that the consultant brought to our company made all the difference in the world."
-- Joel Clemons, Q.A. Manager, Elite Metal Finishing, LLC
"ER helped us customize and implement a multi-certified Quality
Management System. In addition to ER's efficient implementation
process, the end results were astounding. The process was a smooth
transition and easily maintainable. With the help of ER's specialized
consultants, our initial certification was achieved with zero findings.
Throughout many
AS9100 assessments, Nadcap re-certificaitons, and customer audits, the
total number of findings have been far and few between."
-- Todd Steging, Operations Manager, Tri-Fitting Manufacturing
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