FAA - NASA Workshop on Composite Material Control August Embassy Suites - Rosemont Chicago, Il 1

2 Welcome  Thanks you for taking time from your summer activities to support this effort  We appreciate the time each of you has spent on looking at the documents and preparing for the workshop.

3 Balancing Needs  Interested Parties √Customers, Current & Potential - material quality √Testing Labs - standardization of test methods √Regulators - compliance with regulations √Manufacturers - financial returns Standardization Customers Manufacturers Testing Labs Regulatory Agencies

4 Specifications/Standards  Past  Little or no improvement in material performance. Meeting requirements was simply a “badge of the wall.”  Development did not involve all interested parties.  Insufficient return on investment or no business advantage.  Future √Material exceeds interested parties expectations. Meeting requirements means continual improvement. √All interested parties share common values, culture of trust & empowerment. √Customer loyalty, retention of market share gain.

5 Specifications/Standards  Past  Quality Assurance was a post activity event, focused on inspection & test after product was made.  Quality Assurance acted as a regulator to control the supply of material. Sorted good products from bad & authorized release of only good product.  Collection of data.  Future √Quality Control focus on preventing failures during the process. √Quality Control reviews key processes [e.i. Last 3 months of data] to establish if the process/material properties are stable. √Collection of data for a purpose.

6 Vision of Composites Control  Current state of the art –What we can do now –Best Practice  Short term improvements –Two to five years to accomplish –Current investigated new techniques  Long term improvements –Ten years + –Focused research to develop identified and yet to be discovered characteristics and techniques

7 Workshop Objectives  The objectives of this workshop are to: –Review the results and recommendations of this FAA sponsored research on material procurement and material processing specifications. –Assess current industry practice and recommended FAA directions for shared specifications and databases. –Recommend further research activities where current quality assurance methods and techniques do not achieve a desired degree of composite materials reliability.

8 Review the results and recommendations of this FAA sponsored research on material procurement and material processing specifications.  This Afternoon we will review and critique the documents.  Each author will discuss the philosophy and technical details of their document  A team of reviewers will give the workshop a view of the documents from their perspective.  We have selected a diverse group of reviewers to get a broad view of these documents including suppliers, OEMs and regulators.

9 Assess current industry practice and recommended FAA directions for shared specifications and databases.  On Wednesday – We will divide into two groups to allow discussion on each document  Material Procurement Criteria  Material Processing Criteria –These discussions will be summarized at the end of the morning. –We will then as a group review key discussion areas developed in the morning breakout sessions.  Thursday –Develop the comments and criteria into useable actions. We will also discuss extension of these criteria to other processing techniques. –Application of the control principles to new processing techniques.

10 Recommend further research activities where current quality assurance methods and techniques do not achieve a desired degree of composite materials reliability.  On Thursday we will explore the areas of composite control which are not well defined. –Identify current QC techniques that need improvement. –Determination of key characteristics that define an acceptable product. –New techniques and procedures that will give the level of control and repeatability of a metallic material

11 Operating Procedures for the Workshop  Please refrain from interrupting the presentations today. We have provided ample time for discussion. (A full day)  Please wait to be recognized before asking questions or making comments.  We will take a short five to ten minute break each hour.  Each morning and afternoon there will be a refreshment break.  A sponsored lunch is being held tomorrow in this room.

12 Refreshment Breaks  Tuesday Afternoon –3:30 PM  Wednesday –9:30 AM –3:00 PM  Thursday –10:00 AM

13 Tuesday Afternoon  Introduction  Address by FAA Composites NRS Address by FAA Composites NRS Address by FAA Composites NRS  Shared Databases Shared Databases Shared Databases –Steve Ward  Material Procurement Criteria Material Procurement Criteria Material Procurement Criteria –Will McCarvill  Material Processing Criteria Material Processing Criteria Material Processing Criteria –Gregg Bogucki  Industry Reviewers –13 Reviews from cross-section of stakeholders –Rich Moulton, Dan Ruffner, Larry Coulter, Ric Abbott, Molly Stone, Cindy Cole, Mark Chris, John Adelmann, Steve Peake, Sam Tiam, Mike Stuart, Cecil Schneider Dan RuffnerLarry CoulterRic AbbottMolly Stone Cindy ColeMark ChrisJohn AdelmannSteve Peake Mike StuartCecil SchneiderDan RuffnerLarry CoulterRic AbbottMolly Stone Cindy ColeMark ChrisJohn AdelmannSteve Peake Mike StuartCecil Schneider

14 Questionnaires  The following 2 questionnaires are concerned with information requirements for developing material, part fabrication and processing specifications/standards. E - Information Requirements for Creating Material Specifications F - Information Requirement for Creating Part Fabrication & Processing Specifications

15 Wednesday Afternoon Agenda   1:30 Review of Group A&B Discussions   2:45 Economic Issues (E)   3:30 Time Monitoring for Stability& Linkage between Database and Specifications (TM/DL)   4:45 Specification Oversight (Approval&Monitoring)(SO)

16 Thursday Agenda   8:00 – –Current Material Focus- Review of Current State of the Art Identification of Research Needs   8:45 – –Other Product Forms Focus- Review of Current State of the Art Identification of Research Needs   10:30 – –Identification of Needs   10:50 – –Regulatory Policy on Criteria for Material Procurement & Processing   11:30 – –Wrap Up   11:45Adjournment

17 Questionnaires  The following 4 questionnaires are concerned with information requirements for material acceptance into a shared database. A - Testing & Documentation Requirements for Cured Material/Resin Properties B - Testing & Documentation Requirements for Uncured Material Properties C - Information and Recommended Practices for Part Fabrication, Personnel, Processing & Inspection D - Test Coupon Fabrication & Test Conditions

18 Comment Return  John Tomblin –Attn: FAA/NASA Workshop –1845 N. Fairmount –Wichita, KS  Comments to: –Subject: FAA/NASA Workshop