Description / Abstract:
SCOPE:
This document provides guidelines for consolidation and
standardization of commercial jet transport
parts, materials, and processes currently defined by two or more
company or industry standards.
Included in this ARP are processes for selecting and evaluating
standardization opportunities as
well as a procedure for initiating the development and release of
global aerospace industry
standards. These practices are intended to be used when two or more
company standards appear to
have significant overlap or in fact be technically identical. Benefits
of such standardization
efforts include part numbers and potentially reduced inventory levels,
reduced errors, reduced
qualification costs, and reduced equipment life cycle costs.
This ARP is intended to be used by any two or more companies involved
in the aerospace industry
that wish to benefit from standardization. For the purpose of this
document, companies undertaking
such a standardization effort shall be referred to as a
standardization committee.
The goal of such a standardization committee is not the actual
development of an industry standard,
but the identification of a valuable standardization opportunity. The
actual development of the
industry standard which will support the standardization effort will
take place within an
established Standards Developing Organization (SDO) according to the
rules of due process.