by OQRI | Jun 19, 2019 | News
Oxebridge has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FAA to unmask the supplier of potentially defective slat tracks installed on Boeing 737 MAX and Next Generation (NG) aircraft. On June 10th, FAA released an Airworthiness Directive announcing...
by OQRI | Jun 17, 2019 | News
A senior member of the telecommunications standards committee QuEST Forum and ASQ Fellow worked as a senior executive of Huawei and helped the Chinese company improve quality using techniques and methods developed in the US. Jack Pompeo held the position of VP Global...
by OQRI | Jun 15, 2019 | News
The aerospace manufacturer ASCO has shut down all operations “indefinitely” after the company succumbed to a ransomware cyberattack which locked employees out of its systems. ASCO was taken over recently by Spirit Airlines. Boeing and the FAA announced...
by OQRI | Jun 14, 2019 | News
The company responsible for manufacturing a flammable cladding material which led to the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in the UK continues to hold ISO 9001 certification issued by Bureau Veritas and accredited by ANAB. Arconic Inc. of New Kensington PA held ISO...
by OQRI | Jun 5, 2019 | News
Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems was fined $193,000 by the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) for exposing employees to carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, according to an official OSHA release. According to the document, OSHA...
by OQRI | Jun 3, 2019 | News
The regional accreditation body conglomerate European Accreditation (EA) has issued a formal resolution rejecting a clarification on ISO 17065 issued by that standard’s authoring committee, the ISO Committee on Conformity Assessment (CASCO). The move shows that...
by OQRI | May 29, 2019 | News
NQA-USA Quality Director Arlen Chapman was hit with an official complaint alleging multiple violations of accreditation rules after he engaged in an angry phone call with an AS9100 certified client who had hired Oxebridge Quality Resources to assist in resolving open...
by OQRI | May 24, 2019 | News
A paper published by Pennsylvania State University labeled an article written by ASQ State Section Chair William Levinson as echoing “white supremacist” views. The paper, entitled “The White Meme’s Burden: Replication and Adaptation in...
by OQRI | May 24, 2019 | News
A company at the heart of a criminal trial for forging aerospace source inspection records held AS9100 certification issued by NSF-ISR at the time the crimes were committed. According to the FBI, an employee with PMI Industries of Rochester NY intentionally falsified...
by OQRI | May 16, 2019 | News
Dr. Melvyn Langford, formerly of the UK National Health Service, has written an article debunking the “5 x 5” risk matrix approach and, by extension, the concept of Risk Priority Numbers (RPN). The US aerospace industry, in particular, reinforces the use...
