Results of NL Aerospace NDT meeting
Information meeting
Netherlands Aerospace Non Destructive testing Board
In July 2005, the Netherlands Aerospace NDT Board was founded. Between this foundation and the situation as of today many things happened. Therefore the Board has decided that it would be very useful to organize an information meeting for all stakeholders of NDT within the aerospace business.
This meeting has taken place on June 20th, 2008.
Present at that meeting were:
Dick Dam KLM E&M (chairman of the Board)
Arie Stroo MOOG Holland (secretary of the Board)
Ton v.d. Minkelis Stork Fokker (thesaurier of the Board)
Dick du Pon NLR (member of the Board)
Franc Buijsen TIAT (member of the Board)
Piet van Es Chromalloy (member of the Board)
Jaap van der Lei Lineservices (member of the Board)
Chris van Lieshout Transport and Water Management Inspectorate
Freek v.d. Pal Transport and Water Management Inspectorate
Richard Dukker Standaard Aero
Peter Loonen Chromalloy
Maarten Ottevanger KLM E&M
Gerdinand Sijbring EPCOR
Danny Goergen MOOG Holland
Gerard van der Nat NLR
Frank Jansen NAG (branche-organisation)
The agenda of this meeting was:
1. Welcome and opening Dick Dam
2. History and status of the Board Arie Stroo and Ton v.d. Minkelis
3. From inspectorate point of view Chris van Lieshout
4. Pause
5. Status European situation Dick Dam
6. Lunch
7. Workshop NDT (techn., proc., org.) Frank Jansen and Ton v.d. Minkelis
8. Closing Dick Dam
De presentations of the items 2., 3., 5. en 7 have been attached to this minutes.
An additional attachment is a detailed list of the items which has been put under the attention of EASA by the European Forum (see item 5 of the agenda).
The workshop (item 7. of the agenda) resulted in the following items:
- The Board was founded because of the EASA Part 145, in particular AMC 145.A.30(f), without this regulations, the Board most probably would never have been founded
- On the other hand, the existence of the Board really has an added value, mainly in the field of networking and harmonization (both national and European)
- Non Destructive testing within the Aerospace Business is a specialism which is very important, directly linked with safety
- Until now, the activities of the Board have been concentrated on the fulfillment of the already mentioned EASA requirements
- An area which needs more attention is information management. There already is a website, but not too many people are aware of its exsistence.
- Also the authorities agree that they can play a role to inform the stakeholders about the existence of the Board, e.g. by highlighting this at audits
- It might be a good idea to organize regular meetings (e.g. once a year) with all L3’s in the Netherlands
- Also direct contact with OEM’s and/or other specialists might be an opportunity
The Board will take these suggestions into consideration and agrees that they really have certain obligation to promote the importance of NDT within the Aerospace Business.
The chairman thanks everybody for their useful contribution and closes this very valuable meeting.