Nuclear Industry Assessment Committee Overview

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Nuclear IndustryAssessment Committee Overview

• ASQ Energy Environmental Conference
• August 28, 2006
• Ed Stankiewicz
• Joseph Oat Corporation
• NIAC Chairman

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Presentation Overview

• Brief history of NIAC
• Organization structure
• Benefits / recent audit activity
• Comparison of NIAC / NUPIC approaches
• Success examples
• Status summary

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History

• Founded in 1994 by 11 Charter members
• Patterned after the NUPIC concept subject to some
  interesting challenges
• Needed to address the anti-trust (collusion)
  aspects of competitors sharing audits
• Sharing arrangement resulted in an innovative
  ratio technique to address assessment assignments
• Amended charter / checklists in 2003 /2004
• Include DOE complex suppliers
• Include Transportation and Storage 10CFR71 /
  10CFR72
• Current membership is at 76 members

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Organization Structure

• Executive Officers
• Steering Committee
• Compliance Committee
• General Membership

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Organization Structure

• Executive Officers
• Chairman Ed Stankiewicz Joseph Oat Corporation
• Vice-Chair Rosalie Nava Crane Nuclear Inc.
• Secretary John De Kline Enertech
• Treasurer John Salasky Axion Technical Services
• Responsible for general direction of NIAC
  activities as identified by the Steering Committee

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Organization Structure

• Steering Committee
• Executive Officers
• Up to 8 additional elected members
• Control and issuance of NIAC documents (meeting
  minutes / procedures / audit plans and schedules)
  
• Administration of NIAC funds
• Identify matters subject to approval of the
  General membership
• Issues of noncompliance
• Membership fee and dues structure
• Changes to NIAC operating procedures or NIAC
  charter

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Organization Structure

• Compliance Committee
• Three person committee
• Led by an elected chair person
• Identify noncompliance issues for Steering
  Committee or General Membership action
• Charter issues
• Attendance at annual meeting / performance of
  scheduled audits
• Performance of scheduled assessments
• Assessment quality issues
• Late issuance of assessment reports
• Lack of follow-up
• Quality Issues

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Organization Structure

• General Membership
• Currently 76 members
• Attend annual membership meeting (November)
• Plan / perform assigned assessments
• Conduct assessments as a safety-related service
• Maintain Lead Auditor qualifications (ASME NQA-1
  / ANSI 45.2.23)
• Obtaining supplier authorization to perform as a
  NIAC audit and share results
• Provide audit plans / reports and follow-up
  information to sharing members

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Benefits

• Supplier quality assurance programs are evaluated
  using a consistent basis.
• Standard methodology is utilized for the
  performance of supplier assessments.
• Member companies save on audit costs by the
  sharing of assessment results.
• Suppliers save on audit costs by a reduction in
  the number of assessments conducted.
• Interface and cooperation between industry peers
  is increased.

Collectively NIAC members have improved the
quality of our audit processes to benefit of our
customers as well as our industry
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Audit activity and savings

• Estimated aggregate member savings over last 5
  years - 2.5 Million
• Based on dues, annual meeting attendance and
  performance of one assessment and receiving two -
  payback period for participating member is in the
  first year

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Comparison NIAC / NUPIC

• Organization and Objectives
• Similar approaches and goals
• Executive leadership / committees
• Audit performance
• Equitable sharing arrangement
• NUPIC performs joint assessments
• NIAC charter prohibits joint assessments
• Members evaluate / accept assessments under their
  individual QA programs
• Similar benefits and cost savings to
  participating members
• Stable, institutionalized and effective processes
• Approaches have achieved industry / NRC acceptance

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Some successes - examples

• Ability to address emergency needs
• Supplier of needed raw material not on QSL / AVL
• Normal fire drill would require dispatch of
  auditor to audit and qualify supplier - 3 to 5
  day cycle time
• Review NIAC database indicated a NIAC member had
  performed an audit
• NIAC at its best!!
• Contacted auditing member
• Processed authorization letter / forms
• Obtained / evaluated supplier audit report (pdf /
  overnight mail)
• Qualified supplier for use
• NIAC success - same day / next day cycle time

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Some successes - examples

• Ability to address routine needs
• Overseas supplier of fabricated components needed
  by participating NIAC member
• Participating member had audited and qualified
  supplier
• Routine request processed to share audit avoiding
  overseas travel
• NIAC success - evolving global nature of
  participating NIAC members is becoming evident as
  sharing of European and Asian suppliers is
  becoming more common

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Status summary

• Weve grown
• Weve expanded beyond the nuclear utility supply
  base
• Processes continue to be stable and efficient
• Continuing to benefit participating members
• Continuing to benefit the nuclear industry
• Adapting to the global economy
• Sharing increased number of European and Asian
  supplier assessments
• Membership expanding to non-US suppliers

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