Aerospace Standards Newsletter Volume IV, Issue 1 June 2013 Creating globally harmonized standards. Moving industry forward. Issue Highlights: SAE and international partner recognized by Beijing Municipal SAE and international partner recognized Science and Technology Commission ..................................................................C1 Airline/Maintenance/Regulation panel discussions held at IVHM by Beijing Municipal Science and and SHM committee meeting ...................................................................................2 Technology Commission IVHM: A new technological paradigm...........................................................................3 SAE International officially received the status of “Excellent International Technical sessions, exhibit, committee meetings highlight upcoming 2013 AeroTech Congress ............................................................................................4 Partner of the Beijing International Cooperation Base for Science and Aerospace standards, regulations and economics on the agenda “ for Technology” by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission on September SAE International meeting.....................................................................4 January 30th. This credential is a core part of improving innovation capability Inaugural SAE aerospace alternative fuels symposium held in Brussels ...........5 through cooperative international projects. New recommended practice addresses quality and process improvement .......6 SAE International’s long-term partner in the aerospace industry, the New committee, working group chairs named ...........................................................7 China Aero-Polytechnology Establishment (CAPE) was approved by the SAE’s Aerospace Engineering magazine teams with NASA’s Defense Commission to be a Base for Standardization, Quality and Reliability in the Tech Briefs .......................................................................................................................7 Aerospace Manufacturing Industry. Citing SAE’s standing in the industry and South Carolina SAE Section tours Boeing facility ......................................................8 building on existing collaborative efforts, CAPE identified SAE as its strategic SAE Aerospace Standards Corporate Contribution Program .................................9 international partner. Technical committee meeting schedule .....................................................................10 SAE standards development committees seeking experts and volunteers .....11 This government recognition and resulting support will help CAPE and SAE Volunteer recognition: document sponsors ...............................................................12 International jointly create great value. With CAPE as the standardization Nominate a deserving individual for an SAE award................................................14 center of China’s aviation industry, and SAE as the global leader in aerospace Technical Standards Board Outstanding Achievement Award winners named ...14 standards, the organizations form a strong team able to assist Chinese aviation enterprises become part of the global aviation industry. World Headquarters, 400 Commonwealth Dr., Ed Manns, Global Manager of SAE International’s Aerospace Standards Warrendale, PA 15096 USA; +1.724.776.4841 and Gary Schkade, General Manager of SAE International’s operations in Europe, 1 York Street, London, China both expressed their full commitment to future increased cooperation W1U 6PA, United Kingdom; + 44 (0) 207 0341250 with CAPE. Joint focus areas will support the increased awareness and www.sae.org implementation by the Chinese enterprises of SAE’s latest global technical standards. This will include training and consulting as well as promoting knowledge exchange through forums and workshops. Document Publication SAE-I Document Number Published Publication Status Jan-May 2012 2013 Issued 99 34 Revised 443 175 Reaffirmed 874 411 Cancelled 228 4 Stabilized 22 66 To review recently published document titles, visit http://www.sae.org/standardsdev/aerospace/ newastds.htm The China Aerospace Polytechnology Establishment (CAPE) delegation and Gary Schkade, SAE International Director of Asia Pacific Business Development, at CAPE’s SAE International: The largest, most Headquarters in Beijing, the site of an earlier meeting between the two organizations respected aerospace standards to discuss areas of cooperation. development organization. Airline/Maintenance/Regulation panel discussions IVHM: A new technological paradigm held at IVHM and SHM committee meeting Adapted from an article which previously appeared in Aerospace Engineering magazine SAE International’s HM-1 Integrated Vehicle Health Management and G-11SHM The aims of Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) include improved safety through the use Structural Health Monitoring and Management committees held a special panel session of diagnostics and prognostics to fi x faults before they are an issue, as well as improved availability of featuring representatives from airlines, maintenance organizations and regulatory agencies at fl eets through better maintenance scheduling. their March meeting at the Lufthansa Aviation Center, at Frankfurt Airport. The panels featured In the past, OEMs and suppliers had very little say on how an airplane was used or maintained. That representatives from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), UK Military Aviation Authority responsibility fell mostly on the shoulders of the operators. Parts were shipped according to the (MAA), TAP Portugal, Lufthansa Technik, and All Nippon Airways. requirements and timing of the aircraft owner. SAE has dedicated technical committees and panels that are developing recommended practices Today, operators—i.e., airlines—are moving away from such tasks, concentrating their attention on and standards for propulsion systems, powerplants, structures, landing gears and other systems, as profi tably running the business of fl ying. OEMs and suppliers, on the other hand, are taking over the well as the integrated vehicle itself. business of guaranteeing that the planes are ready and able to fl y as expected. That’s the new contract: Simon Waite and Alastair Healy of EASA, and RAF Squadron Leader Sean Perkins spoke at the availability, reliability, deep asset knowledge, and readiness. The cost of ownership is thus kept on budget, “Regulators Panel” portion of the meeting. Waite discussed the regulatory approach to structural maximizing the potential for bigger margins. The impetus for the IVHM value proposition on the OEM integrity in the light of “ARP646: Guidelines on Structural Health Monitoring for Aerospace side is a commercial one – the desire to increase or maintain revenue by moving into maintenance, or to Applications,” a forthcoming recommended practice developed by SAE’s G-11SHM committee. compete in a market that is being eroded by low-cost component suppliers. He used examples of standards and regulations for detection and monitoring on rotorcraft and small fi xed wing aircraft, and urged early dialog between SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) stakeholders and regulators. Healey discussed the legacy of vehicle health management for rotorcraft, and noted that the industry will drive innovation in IVHM which the regulator will address as required. He also noted the potential for IVHM to support safety, and described how the organization must maintain an acceptable, pre-defi ned level of airworthiness and safety through writing certifi cation and operating requirements, and ensuring compliance with regulators regarding the introduction of new maintenance practices. EASA is participating in the SAE HM-1 IVHM committee. Perkins discussed the Military Aircraft Authority (MAA), which has been established to address airworthiness of military aircraft. Among the MAA’s goals, he said, are producing a mixture of mandated and good guidance materials, establishing maintenance credits, and providing a regulatory framework that enables evolution. Examples were provided of instances in which fi xed and rotary wing military aircraft currently utilize health monitoring systems Participants in the “End Users Panel” were Nuno Goncalves Soares of TAP Maintenance and Engineering, Olaf Ronsdorf of Lufthansa Technik, and Katsuo Matsuura of ANA. Soares discussed how the airline has installed an aircraft health monitoring system with the goals of quickly trouble-shooting in-fl ight, performing maintenance more quickly, and reducing time on the ground. He noted that IVHM was important but that NFF (No Fault Found) was a key challenge. Ronsdorf, the Lufthansa Technik representative on the SAE Aerospace Council, In 2011, the SAE IVHM Steering Group defi ned IVHM as the “unifi ed capability of a system of systems to described how Lufthansa performs Engine Condition Monitoring on 1,520 engines, using their own assess the current or future state of the member system health, and integrate that picture of system health or OEM developed algorithms. He discussed the desire for reliable condition based maintenance within a framework of available resources and operational demand.” In November 2010, the SAE committee (CBM) for aircraft systems which can affect operations to reduce unscheduled groundings and HM-1, Integrated Vehicle Health Management was established to develop standards related to IVHM. maintenance and increase aircraft availability. He also noted the need for partnership