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RMC Meeting Minutes (Public)

Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday 01/25 – 01/27, 2005

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Attendees:

Registrar Management Committee Meeting Attendees

Tuesday Jan 25 2005

Name Company

(** Voting Members)

**Mike Roberts (Chair) Boeing OEM

**Luiz Brandao Embraer OEM

**Vince May Honeywell OEM

**Mike Gallagher Lockheed OEM

**Mike Hayward Northrop-Grumman OEM

**Guy Johansen UTC OEM

**Rich Vinton Raytheon OEM

**David Stevens Rolls Royce NA OEM

**Rick Downs Textron OEM

**Will Tate Vought OEM

Lori Scheid ANAB AB

Hollie Last SCC AB

Reg Blake IAAR / BSI America CRB

Carl Blazik IAAR / CRS CRB

Ed Bayne Boeing OEM

Tim Lee Boeing OEM

Jay Myers SAE SAE

Sidney Vianna DNV CRB

Jeff Carr NQA CRB

Michael Harrell UL CRB

Pete Kucan PRI Registrars CRB

Fred Becker Intertek CRB

Buck Crenshaw JPL Guest

Bob Cook FAA Guest

Attendees:

Registrar Management Committee Meeting Attendees

Wednesday Jan 26, 2005

Name Company

(** Voting Members)

**Mike Roberts (Chair) Boeing OEM

**Luiz Brandao Embraer OEM

**Vince May Honeywell OEM

**Mike Gallagher Lockheed OEM

**Mike Hayward Northrop-Grumman OEM

**Guy Johansen UTC OEM

**Rich Vinton Raytheon OEM

**David Stevens Rolls Royce NA OEM

**Rick Downs Textron OEM

**Will Tate Vought OEM

Lori Scheid ANAB AB

Hollie Last SCC AB

Cindy Miller RABQSA AB

Reg Blake IAAR / BSI America CRB

Carl Blazik IAAR / CRS CRB

Ed Bayne Boeing OEM

Tim Lee Boeing OEM

Jay Myers SAE SAE

Sidney Vianna DNV CRB

Jeff Carr NQA CRB

Michael Harrell UL CRB

Pete Kucan PRI Registrars CRB

Fred Becker Intertek CRB

Attendees:

Registrar Management Committee Meeting Attendees

Thursday Jan 27, 2005

Name Company

(** Voting Members)

**Mike Roberts (Chair) Boeing OEM

**Luiz Brandao Embraer OEM

**Vince May Honeywell OEM

**Mike Gallagher Lockheed OEM

**Mike Hayward Northrop-Grumman OEM

**Guy Johansen UTC OEM

**Rich Vinton Raytheon OEM

**David Stevens Rolls Royce NA OEM

**Rick Downs Textron OEM

**Will Tate Vought OEM

Lori Scheid ANAB AB

Hollie Last SCC AB

Cindy Miller RABQSA AB

Reg Blake IAAR / BSI America CRB

Carl Blazik IAAR / CRS CRB

Ed Bayne Boeing OEM

Tim Lee Boeing OEM

Jay Myers SAE SAE

Sidney Vianna DNV CRB

Jeff Carr NQA CRB

Michael Harrell UL CRB

Pete Kucan PRI Registrars CRB

Fred Becker Intertek CRB

Brian Hughitt NASA Guest

Buck Crenshaw JPL Guest

Bob Cook FAA Guest

Note: presentations are posted on the RMC web site in the folder under minutes associated to this meeting. Where reference is made in the minutes to See Presentation #x, open the file on the web with the corresponding number.

Meeting Agenda

See Presentation #1

In the minutes below:

· Discussions are documented in Blue

· Actions are documented in Red

· Decisions are documented in Violet

· Discussion Example

1. Action Example

1. Decision Example

Meeting Minutes

1.) Welcome, Introductions, and Overview Mike Roberts

· Mike Roberts explained how the RMC works and reviewed IAQG/AAQG meetings

See Presentation #2

2. Action raised to plan for IAQG OT review of AAQG RMC scheme during the Montreal October 2005 meeting. Need to put a plan together beginning with June Savannah meeting. Concern the Brazil September meeting may not be heavily attended so we need to work this earlier.

· Mike Roberts provided review of IAQG OT and RMC structure

See Presentations #3 & #4

2.) Membership Mike Roberts

2. Mike requested an OEM step up to be in succession for taking on the RMC Chair role and take over beginning 01-2006

3.) RMC Roster Categories Mike Roberts

3. Create RMC “103” writing on membership that clearly defines roles & responsibilities (A.K.A. member / liaison / mailing / consultant -- Mike Roberts to take this action on. Does this link the RMC Web activity??

3. RMC Voting Members are the 11 OEMs
RMC Members are the current 11 OEMs, ABs, IAAR reps, and At Large Members
RMC Liaison are active participants
RMC Members and Liaison have access to the RMC private web site

· Mike lead clean up of the SAE AAQG RMC “roster”

4.) Voting Mike Roberts

4. RMC re-affirms no change to existing appendix B, clause B4 of AIR5359

5.) Incorporation Jay Myers

4. RMC Voting members will need to sign off the incorporation papers once SAE has them ready

6.) IAQG/AAQG Documentation Status Mike Roberts/Ed Bayne

See Presentation #5

5. Action for Colin Clarke to present AIR 5493 implementation plan during Fort Worth meeting. (AAQG will release as revision to 5493)

7.) RMC Participation Ed Bayne

· Updated the RMC participation on activities

See Presentation #6

8.) Documentation Team Vince May

6. AAQG documents being released are not consistent with the SAE Technical Style Manual - Who is responsible to ensure the documents meet the standard?? - Mike Roberts to take to the AAQG LT for guidance as SAE may be in position to hire an editor to perform function

7. Action for documentation team to review and provide recommendation at Forth Worth March meeting for RMC 101, 104, 105

8. Mike Roberts to coordinate OASIS implementation on existing data for scoring change with 9101C team & OASIS Team

9.) Process Team Reg Blake

See Presentation #7

9. Process Team to provide update in March AAQG meeting on alignment to AS9104

10. Vince May, Reg Blake, Colin Clarke, and Tim Lee to put time line (implementation plan) on how the process mapping ties to documentation ties to surveillance for Fort Worth meeting

10.) Surveillance Team Tim Lee

See Presentation #8

11. Buck Crenshaw, JPL & Lori Scheid to provide Tim Lee their respective nondisclosure agreement form for possible modification / plagiarizing for common RMC form.

12. Mike Roberts to check with Julio Perez on Oversight Standard Team team make up guidelines for IAQG surveillance (CRBs included??)

13. Tim Lee to work up proposed answer to: Should an AAQG Member not be able support the schedule and they cannot find a replacement, the action to be taken is_____ [provide to RMC in Forth Worth]

5. To the extent possible, we expect AAQG Member participation in follow up to cancelled or failed audits

11.) ANAB Report Lori Scheid

See Presentation #9

12.) IAF Report Lori Scheid

See Presentation #10

13.) SCC Report Hollie Last

See Presentation #11

14.) IAAR Report Reg Blake

See Presentation #12

15.) OASIS Jay Myers

· Jay provided live demo of OASIS enhancements, including the ability to turn on or off tier 2 data

· New enhancements in the works include a link for recent changes (auditors / accreditations, etc) certificate image download and certified supplier excel spreadsheet download

14. Mike Roberts to review with IAQG OT the possibility of adding link for CRB transfers in OASIS

16.) AIR 5493 rewrite Carl Blazik / Hollie Last

See Presentation #13

15. 5493 team to send draft writing(s) to RMC members, CRBs, and Cindy Miller (RABQSA) for review by March Fort Worth Meeting

16. Colin Clarke team to address competency in 5493

17.) RABQSA Report Cindy Miller

See Presentation #14

17. Reg Blake to put together a couple slides for Fort Worth describing the process change for auditor certification RABQSA

18.) Auditor Review Team Rick Downs

See Presentation #15

6. RMC determined the Auditor sub team will review and vote on CRB & AB approvals

18. Rick Downs to discuss with Colin Clarke where the RMC goes with the reviewing of individual course trainers

19. Vince May’s re-write team to ensure AIR 5359 appendix B & C agree with each

7. To be compliant with 5359 and still have the auditor sub team perform the review of ABs, CRBs, and Auditors, the sub team needs to maintain a population of a simple majority of voting members.

8. Will Tate and Vince May to join auditor sub team

9. ANAB to send CRB and Auditor requests to RMC Auditor Sub Team only and not full RMC

19.) INMETRO Report Luiz Brandao

See Presentation #16

20. Luiz Brandao requested Mike Roberts to discuss with Julio Perez the inclusion of the Brazilian 9100 equivalent, NBR15100 in OASIS or list the current technically equivalent writings in OASIS

20.) RMC Website Rich Vinton

See Presentation #17

10. Keep two years of minutes available on Public site

11. Keep until SAE removes on Private site

21. Rich Vinton to research and update resolution log

22. Mike Roberts to update members list and provide to Rich Vinton for posting to web

23. Rich Vinton to change RAB to ANAB and also add OASIS link

24. Rich Vinton to add link called “other links” and remove the SCC, Oasis, IAQG unique links

25. At the private RMC website
Update the information related to the purpose and responsibilities of the RMC

26. Meeting Minutes
Identify the PRIVATE Minutes of Meeting’s from the public ones

27. Photos
Rich Vinton to delete irrelevant/old photos such as number 4

28. RMC Oversight data
Tim Lee is keeping the data in this section. Tim Lee will let Rich Vinton know what data needs to be kept and what data can be discarded, even though Tim believes that the data is already cleaned.

29. RMC Other documents
Hollie will look for a copy of the SCC approval

30. RMC Action items log
Lori (ANAB) will capture the action items from last two AAQG minutes of meeting and transpose them on to a log, to be kept updated, from here on.

31. RMC procedures
Documentation sub team to go over RMC 101, 104 and 105 for review and comments

32. The IAQG Other party Scheme - information
The folder to be renamed to IAQG Oversight team information

33. Other folders to be created with the material developed by the sub teams

34. The RMC folder in the AAQG private website shall be deleted, since the information there is outdated.

35. Mike Roberts to provide info on web stating what is part of ICOP and what is not part of ICOP

21.) Risk Based Surveillance Tim Lee

See Presentations #18 & #19

36. RMC Washington DC meeting attendees to review Risk Tool and send comments to Tim Lee by February 28, 2005.

37. Tim Lee & Lori Scheid to “clean-up” data shown in the assessment (appendix 7) oversight metric and then present in March Fort Worth meeting

22.) NASA Supplier Initiative Brian Hughitt

See Presentations #20 & #21

23.) OASIS Clean-Up Mike Roberts / Jay Myers

· Double Entries

· Old Entries

· Multi-site issues

38. OEMs and CRBs to review OASIS entries and ensure accuracy of information

· Discussion on having OASIS generated Certificate numbers was not supported by the CRB community. Certificate numbers are assigned by CRBs and are unique to their system and become a unique identifier linked to the client - CRBs do not want to change their numbering convention(s)

24.) Surveillance: RMC102 ==> AS91XX Tim Lee

12. RMC102 to include performance based risk assessment in draft rev 4

39. Tim Lee to have Rev 4 of RMC102 available for March Fort Worth Meeting (March 22, 2005)

25.) AIR5493 Issues Mike/Hollie/Carl/Rick

13. To be renumbered as an AS document (versus the AIR format)

14. To the greatest extent practical, There [shall or should] be no duplication between 9104, 5359, 5493 and doc 102

15. RMC endorses the use of competency approach for auditors

16. RMC recognizes accredited auditor programs, but is not in position to mandate as a requirement - is a CRB business decision.

17. RMC recognizes that ABs have the right to subcontract the auditor approval process. If they do subcontract, the ABs are responsible for the oversight of the subcontracted function, subject to oversight by the RMC

18. RMC endorses the addition of AB auditor and AAQG Member surveillance / oversight representatives competency requirement to 5493 as a separate section from CRB auditor competency

19. Auditor oversight belongs in 5359 and not 5493

20. 5493-1 is not to include special section for shared 2nd party auditors - only define an auditor - 5359 describes the 2nd party process

21. 9003 will be included in 5493

22. 5493 is to not require a prerequisite that AAs and AEAs first be lead auditors.

23. Leave the term AA in 5493, ensuring it stays in compliance with the term “Auditor” as described in 9104

· 5493 to take into consideration the e-learning methodology (Class durations)

24. 5493 to set content requirements for courses - 5359 to set out the approval process for courses

40. Draft 5493 to be available for March Fort Worth Meeting (March 22, 2005)

26.) AIR5359 Working Session Mike Roberts / Vince May

· New Revision Format / What's Included

25. Make 5359 as small as possible, removing any information documented in 9104, Doc 102, or 5493

26. To only contain the AAQG sector unique requirements, ultimately becoming the sector unique requirements document including oversight, competency, 9003, etc items

27. To be renumbered as an AS document (versus the AIR format)

28. Writing Team Members
Vince May - Lead
Fred Becker
Buck Crenshaw
Luiz Brandao
Reg Blake
Hollie Last
Boeing individual to be named (Tim Lee to provide Boeing name)
Will Tate
ANAB member to be named (Lori Scheid to provide ANAB name)
Cindy Miller

29. Include in the new 5359, a trilogy chart showing the relationship and major scope, purpose of each in the trilogy

41. Team to create matrix showing correlation to FAA order 8120.12

30. Include section describing and authorizing use of OASIS

31. Include section that deals with the RMC and includes legitimizing lower RMC writings

32. Include guidance on AAs (what approval is, who approves AAs, AA roles etc)

33. Include AS9003

34. Do not include AS9006 (as the AAQG LT has determined AS9006 would not be part of the ICOP scheme)

35. Add section on Communication, (notification of change, complaints, escalation, etc)

36. Show AAQG web page link with directions to access RMC public site in reference document section

42. 5359 re-write to be available for March Fort Worth Meeting (March 22, 2005)

43. 5359 draft ready for comment by June Savannah meeting

27.) Issues Mike Roberts

· AS9003

44. Mike Gallagher to garner support and create a request (presentation) to be made to AAQG / IAQG to raise AS9003 to an International Harmonized status with ICOP/OASIS recognition

· Discussed Conflict of Interest -- OEM Auditors - this is awareness only -- no current action required

· AS9101B vs C issues will require changes to/in OASIS

45. AEA requirements to be defined by Colin Clarke’s Auditor Review sub team (2 & 15, etc.)

· Software Auditor Requirements

· AA Auditor - future / requirements / listing

· Heads up - AAQG members will be starting to request Data Mining from RMC - what data and what format??

46. EAQG-OPMT -- Who from the RMC will go as Rep?? Embraer looking at supporting - if so, get with Tim Lee for protocol and presentation material Luiz provide yes or no to Mike Roberts by Monday 1/31/2005

· RMC Org and Sub-team Assignments

47. Each sub team leader to provide Mike Roberts their team rosters by 2/4/2005

· New RMC Assignments