Urbana rt. 55 controls the fate of Aerospace???????

We were told today by our Plant leader, the head guy here at Urbana, that we will have a DNV audit next week. What he said was absolutely chilling.

He said, due to repeat audit findings, that next weeks audit, should Urbana fail, would lead to the suspension of one of our certificates.

The chilling part. When the plant leader said our certificate, he clarified that it means Aero Honeywell's certificate. The business as a whole only gets one and you can't sell aircraft parts without it. He said if would impact 15 different Aero sites if we fail next week.

Plus we're going to get the white glove treatment. Minor findings will have a major impact, and major findings... I don't even know.

I promise to do my part. How could it get to this, and why didn't any of us one the floor know this? Why are we finding out 6 days before this audit?

Also, one thing he told us is that we've lost 40% of our workforce since COVID. Do to the 2020 RIF, retirees, hiring freezes, and retention problems, we are 40% lighter then what we were 2 years ago. And you wonder why we had quality issues after the most tenured employees we had were fired, retired, or walked out.

Now this may become the fatal snake bite to hit us in the rear if a newbie says the wrong thing. Jesus christ.... I'm sorry everyone. I'll do my best to look around and help out.

Honeywell leadership at Urbana 55, if you're reading this: Treat this like October Inventory. Shut everything down Wednesday to have everyone inspect their work station, their work center, and their department. Have supervisors and workflows ready to answer any questions, and train people for the audit. Have your quality and training people on the floor to help. Shore up ALL issues with Learning Hub and computer access immediately and in person. You can not trust a mass email.

Thursday resume production, but have a mock audit on everyone, everywhere.. Immediate discuss, coach, and correct any findings immediately during the mock audit. Discuss a plan to correct any findings that were not immediately able to be corrected.

Friday Discuss in detail to the workers on the floor the mock audit findings, and ENSURE AND VERIFY immediate corrective action of all finding by the end of day. Ensure any obstacle a floor worker may have is solved including electronic access to Learning Hub or the various web clients we use. Ensure that any additional coaching necessary is followed up on by the end of the day.

Mock audit the plant Saturday, and fix what you find Saturday and Sunday.

Do not relent of fixing and coaching things as the audit is on going. You had better have this place audit ready by Sunday, but don't fu----g stop just because it is Monday.

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I believe it is still true that since all of Aero operates under a common Quality System (manual), it was deemed appropriate (and cost saving) to audit one Aero site as representative of all Aero sites for compliance with AS9100 specification and remain certified as in compliance. If there are problems, see DNV site at https://www.dnv.com/assurance/Management-Systems/procedure-suspension-withdrawal.html.

The FAA does its own audits separately.

@1lni.
Please do your own homework.

There is NO WAY DNV CAN PULL THE CERT. That is Gov't issued. DNV can temporarily shut down Urbana with major findings but I doubt DNV would do that without giving the site to action major findings.

I'll bank on my experience in working with DNV to clear major findings

Thank MM for this, another example of his poor leadership, this has been brewing for years and he did nothing about it. Wait to see what heads roll if it doesn't go well, it won't be his, but it should.

"we are 40% lighter then what we were 2 years ago. And you wonder why we had quality issues after the most tenured employees we had were fired, retired, or walked out."

Congratulations on being LEAN!

@hld

Wrongo.

The cert covers ALL sites. You fail, you bring down all other sites with you.

Please do your homework before posting erroneous information.

I say, "Let the bodies hit the floor"

https://www.dnv.com/services/iso-9001-quality-management-3283 See the link. DNV is simply a quality management audit organization that companies pay for their services. When you pass the audit the company can claim they are ISO-9001 certified. (or whatever section they are wanting to certify to)
It IS site specific and a site that fails the audit has no effect on other Honeywell sites. BTW, it has nothing to do with the FAA.

Good. About time somebody started doing audits again.
FAA has been missing in action for two decades and it cost lives( 737max).
Do your job. Dont skip steps or paperwork.

Yeh, I heard that same thing over and over and over again when this Audit rolled around. Just relax and do your part. Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid

Scare tactic by your site leader. HW will not be shut down. Too much money involved.

We were told, and did, the same thing for our site about 4-5 years ago. There will be findings, that is a given. If you’ve been doing your internal reviews all along, and don’t underestimate what you will be up against, you will be fine.

DNV is being paid by Hon. They won't shut you down and certainly would not shut down Hon.
A major OEM or Gov't audit may suspend your site but not DNV.

Years ago when Boeing shut down Deer Valley that action did not impact other sites. And DV wasn't completely shut down. Just every Boeing shipment had to be inspected.

Sounds like a motivation ploy by your site.

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