NAMSA QA Organization

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NAMSA QA Organization
Presented to Host Nation Conference03 June 2008
Presented by Pierre Graas
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A few words
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The Quality Management System
ISO 9000 QUALITY ASSURANCE part of quality
management focused on providing confidence that
quality requirements will be fulfilled

• Rockets Missiles Programme certified ISO
  90021994 in 1995
• NAMSA certified ISO 90021994 in 2000
• Certified ISO 90012000 in 2002
• Workshop certified AS/EN 9100 in 2007
• Calibration lab will be accredited ISO 17025 in
  the next future

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Quality functional organization
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Our Quality Management approach

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Quality Manager
 Our Quality Manager 
 Quality commitment, quality commitment 
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QA, the statutory framework

• NAMSO Charter (approved by NAC)
• The Board of Directors shall be solely
  responsible for general policy decisions as well
  as the issue of directives to enable NAMSO to
  carry out its mission.
• NAMSO FD 254  NAMSA Quality Assurance 
• NAMSA must discharge its responsibilities for the
  assurance of the quality of materiel and services
  provisioned on behalf of its customers
• The Programme Manager is responsible for QA
  within his Programme
• The Procurement Division Chief is responsible
  for
• the application of contractual QA requirements as
  determined by the Programme Office
• the placing of requests for GQA and their
  co-ordination.

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NAMSO FD 254  NAMSA Quality Assurance 

• The contractual responsibilities shall be
  implemented through the NAMSA Quality Assurance
  Regulation NR-254-01.
• This Regulation shall designate the
  responsibilities for implementing the
  requirements of STANAG 4107.

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NR 254-01 NAMSA QA Regulation

• NAMSA customers are responsible for
• specifying in their orders to NAMSA any
  requirement for a QA standard, or delegating to
  NAMSA the application of the QA selection
  criteria and providing the necessary technical
  data to do so
• informing NAMSA of any requirement for GQA
  services for their orders. If GQA services are
  required, then an AQAP must be specified, and the
  risks which warrant the requirement for GQA
  services must also be described.
• When customers specify quality requirements in
  their orders, then NAMSA is to ensure that
  customer requirements for quality are fulfilled.
• NAMSA is responsible for forwarding a RGQA to the
  relevant NQAA.

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The GQA process at NAMSA
Customer is decision-maker
No
AQAP added if relevant
No
Customer Order
RQGA included
AQAP included
NAMSA
Yes
GQA added if relevant
Yes
Training, Supervision
Supplier
QA Office
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The consequences
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Thank you for your attention