- Obtain an understanding of how airworthiness and safety knowledge is captured and maintained
- Learn how the information is used by other organisations to prevent repeat errors
- Gain an understanding of how the effective management of corporate knowledge may assist them to improve the airworthiness / safety performance of their own organisations
- Share ideas and approaches to the capture and management of airworthiness / safety data with fellow delegates
Overview
Although the rate of aviation accidents is very low, there is a constant, ongoing effort to maximise aviation safety and reduce the frequency of safety incidents. One obvious approach is to learn from previous incidents and not to repeat these errors. Recent events suggest that there is room for improvement in this respect. In order not to repeat previous errors, aviation organisations need to maintain a “corporate memory” in which their previous knowledge and experience of airworthiness and safety-related issues is managed.
Airworthiness: The Importance of Corporate Memory and Decision Making to Improve Airworthiness
Attend this event to explore the issues surrounding safety and airworthiness-related corporate knowledge in all aspects of aviation including design, manufacture, test and evaluation, maintenance, civil/military operations and regulation. During the course of this event you will gain an understanding of how corporate knowledge is collected, stored and used to inform future action in each of these elements of the aviation industry.
Benefits of attendance:
This event will be of interest to designers, maintainers, aircraft operators and legislators involved in airworthiness and aviation safety management.
Day 1
09:00 - Full day programme
09:00
REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:30
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
09:35
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
10:00
CORPORATE KNOWLEDGE ON SAFETY AND AIRWORTHINESS FOR AEROSPACE
PROPULSION
Paul Harris, Chief Airworthiness Engineer – Defence, Rolls-Royce
• The source of our corporate knowledge on safety and airworthiness for aerospace
propulsion
• How do we capture that knowledge?
• How do we use that knowledge?
10:20
Applying Lessons Learnt In The Design And In-Service Experience Processes
John Saunders, Transnational Airworthiness Integration Manager – Structures,
Hydromechanical and UK External Airworthiness Focal Point, Airbus
• Knowledge capture
• Past experience
- From experts when they retire
- People
- Processes
10:40
The Aircraft Test & Evaluation Perspective
Vincent Hibbert, Deputy Head of Airworthiness, Air Division, QinetiQ
• Celebrating 75 years of test and evaluation of UK Military aircraft at Boscombe Down
• Corporate memory is important to what we do at QinetiQ and has to be part of our culture
• The presentation will offer examples of corporate memory in our work, with a focus drawn
from the personal experience of many years associated with the test and evaluation of
military parachute systems
11:00
DISCUSSION SESSION
11:15
NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:30
Corporate Memory & Decision Making – A Regulator’s Perspective
John McColl, Head of Airworthiness, CAA
• Description of the processes of recording for CAA regulations
• How this has evolved over the years including the effect of EASA and the measures going
forward
11:50
From Compliance to Culture
Keith Rose, General Manager Quality and Learning, British Airways Engineering
• The introduction of SMS and the move to a risk based safety model
• Move from a compliance-based organisation
• Introduction of the engineering safety plan within BA
• The safety culture index
12:10
Data Rich, Information Poor – The Use of BowTie to Mine Data
Jim Carr, Retired RAF Engineer Officer
• Details on MAA management of the UK’s military occurrence reporting system, ASIMS
• The analysis process and exploring the lack of capacity to fully analyse all data received
• Use of BowTie methodology to mine and trend the information
12:30
DISCUSSION SESSION
12:45
CLOSE
Paul Harris: Chief Airworthiness Engineer, Rolls-Royce
Paul Harris joined Rolls-Royce in 1990 having studied Mechanical Engineering. During his 24 years at Rolls-Royce he has worked on a number of Military and Civil projects including the RTM322 engine in the Merlin and Apache helicopters, the JSF LiftSystem© and the Trent 900. This has given him experience of certification programmes and aspects of continued airworthiness with various regulators and customer applications.
Paul’s main area of engineering has been on Control Systems and has covered fuel systems, software, electronics and system engineering. He has also worked on a number of advance projects and research programmes.
John Saunders: Transnational Airworthiness Integration Manager – Structures, Hydromechanical and UK External Airworthiness Focal Point, Airbus
John Saunders is responsible for the certification of the Hawker 800XP, the last version of 125 to be certified in the UK before the type was transferred to Raytheon in Wichita.
On the closure of the Raytheon Corporate Jets Design organisation in the UK, he moved to Airbus at Filton. Following the Airbus Single Company formation, he took a senior role in the Structures and Hydromechanical Airworthiness team and also took on a role as National Focal Point for airworthiness in the UK. He is also Chairman of the ADS Airworthiness Board.
Vincent Hibbert: Deputy Head of Airworthiness, Air Division, QinetiQ
Vincent Hibbert is in his fifth decade of working on the Test and Evaluation (T&E) of UK Military aircraft and associated equipment.
Having studied mechanical engineering, he joined the MOD Graduate Engineer scheme and in his early career worked on the qualification testing of aircraft escape systems, the operation of Boscombe Down’s open-jet wind tunnel and whole aircraft environmental test facility and then moved to evaluation of Tornado’s main mechanical systems.
When DERA created QinetiQ, he moved into a new role as the Technical Manager with oversight of all the T&E activity for Airborne Forces and Unmanned Air Systems (UAS), with direct responsibility for the approval of RTS-related advice to the MoD.
John McColl: Head of Airworthiness, Civil Aviation Authority
John McColl is the Head of Airworthiness and manages a team of surveyors overseeing design, production, maintenance and continued / continuing airworthiness activities.
John started his career with Rolls-Royce at the Hillington facility as a Graduate Trainee. After spending time in production, maintenance, planning, quality, design and development, John’s first position was in quality at the Rolls-Royce maintenance facility at East Kilbride.
John has been with the CAA for 18 years, starting in the Propulsion department and involved in the certification and validation of new engine designs, modifications, repairs, continued airworthiness and organisation approvals.
Jim Carr: Airworthiness Analyst, Military Aviation Authority
Jim Carr is a retired RAF Engineer Officer. He worked for several years in fixed and rotary wing test & evaluation at Boscombe Down with DERA and QinetiQ, before taking the role of Service Manager for the Harrier in its last six years of service.
Jim joined the Military Aviation Authority in 2011 and has been an Aerosystems / Airworthiness Specialist ever since.
Keith Rose: General Manager Quality and Learning, British Airways Engineering
Keith Rose has thirty years’ experience within aviation, of which the last 24 years have been working directly for British Airways Engineering. Keith has experience across multiple disciplines in production, design and support on multiple aircraft types. He is currently Head of Airworthiness and Learning, which includes responsibility for the engineering apprentice and graduate programmes worldwide.
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