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Reference

Kuiper, D. (2010, April 14). Two-Tier Strategy to Support Instrumentation Needs of Local Aerospace Industry. PACE. Retrieved April 24, 2011 from http://www.pacetoday.com.au/news/two-tier-strategy-to-support-instrumentation-needs

Summary

            In this article, the author talked about a two-tier strategy to support instrumentation needs of local aerospace industry. According to the author, the Institute of Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (IICA) made a joint group with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) to fix concerns by manufacturers about non-compliance with some of international standards in instrumentation and calibration areas in the aerospace industry. He mentioned that this non-compliance was extensive between the people who were an interest in this field such as external contractors and sub-contractors. Therefore, the IICA and its RMIT collaborators made a two-tier strategy to help those contractors and sub-contractors to become compliant with their requirements. According to the author, the first strategy that they made was to make training courses designed to address the areas that contractors and sub-contractors were not understood such as lack of understanding of international standards, or the airlines’ equivalent to parallel codes that are used by the large aircraft manufacturers. Also, he mentioned that the RMIT and industry experts will supervise these courses. The second-tier strategy was initiation of a registration system. As the author said, this system will maintain a list of those companies and individuals who complete the courses. According to the author, this two-tier strategy was geared to fix the gap in this area of aerospace maintenance. Also, he said that auditors can access the system and assist in facilitating their scheduled audits by seeing which companies are deemed to be compliant.

Reaction

            I enjoyed reading this article because it is interesting; however, it tends to the business more than my major, but it talks about the institute of Instrumentation, Control, and Automation, and the making of two strategies to support instrumentation needs. I think the tow strategies are a great way to reduce the misunderstanding of some international standards, and to reduce the problems between external contractors and sub-contractors in the same field. The thing that I like in this article is the first strategy which is training courses. I think this strategy is common these days, especially in the biggest companies and some general administration. When they want to make new things or to fix anything, they make training courses to help their faculties and to improve their administration. In Saudi Arabia, especially the company that my father is working in, when they want to make a new project, they send some of their employees to many countries to take training courses. Six months ago, they sent my father to the USA, Dubai, and Egypt to take some courses about the new project that they want to make in the company. I think this way is not just to learn from those courses. It helps the employees to learn other cultures and other work ethics.