Copernicus Technology Ltd (CTL) undertook an in-depth, aerospace industry-wide survey of No Fault Found (NFF) issues during the period December 2011 to March 2012 and has now published the survey’s findings report.  The report is an essential read for anyone affected by NFF.  Not only that, it is extremely relevant to any technology sector suffering from NFF, in addition to aerospace.

The results show that No Fault Found (NFF) continues to occur in significant quantities, incurs major avoidable cost, and impacts on output and availability. Despite that fact, however, 67% of the survey participants could not quantify the cost impact or availability impact of NFF on their organisation. The survey findings also revealed that intermittent faults ranked highest by far as the leading root cause of NFFs.

The report also contains insights into the current methods used when dealing with NFF problems, but it also reveals that those methods are not in fact considered to be the most effective solutions with which to tackle NFF. 

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Copernicus Technology Ltd (CTL) has successfully achieved the internationally recognised standard for Quality - ISO9001:2008 – underlining its credentials as the leading specialist in Intermittent Fault Detection and No Fault Found solutions Europe. CTL was externally accredited by the British Assessment Bureau in July, and the successful evaluation earns CTL the right to display the ISO 9001 logo to demonstrate their conformance to the standard.ISO 9001 was first introduced in 1987 and requires organisations to demonstrate that they ‘do what they say they do’ and that they have a quality management system in place to ensure consistency and improvement; leading to high levels of performance and customer satisfaction. Certified organisations are committed to continuous improvement and are assessed annually to ensure progress is being maintained. CTL is no exception in this regard, and its fully integrated Quality & Continuous Improvement Management System (QCIMS) enables us to provide excellent product and service reliability and process controls, all of which means lower costs for its customers.CTL Operations Director, Phil Eastwood, said, “We are delighted and to have achieved ISO 9001 certification because it underlines our commitment to our customers and to our focus on Quality and Continuous Improvement. Most customers don’t get to see their suppliers’ ‘back-office’ processes and so this certification helps to give them confidence in those processes and in our overall ability to provide them with a quality solution right first time, every time.

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CTL's Technical Director Jim Cockram was a guest speaker at the recent University of Highlands and Islands' (UHI) Perth College inaugural Student Conference. This 2-day event, entitled "Discovering New Horizons in Aviation: Engineering, Technology, and Sustainability" was a great success and proved to be a winning formula for future events to be held by UHI's Department of Aeronautical Engineering.

Jim's talk introduced the concept of Intermittent Faults and how they can be detected. He remarked that if there was one thing he would like the audience to remember from his talk which included diagnosing aircraft faults in maintenance scenarios: "don't just change boxes and components speculatively but try and understand and determine the root cause."
Following on from the success of this presentation, CTL was invited by UHI to consider becoming more involved in lecturing to future courses and to mentoring students wishing to learn more about the phenomenon that surrounds "No Found Found" and dealing with intermittent faults. Prof Andrew Rae said that these were interesting times ahead of us all and he looked forward to expanding the curriculum to include such an important subject.

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Copernicus Technology Ltd (CTL) is playing an active part in national and regional debates over the future for Scottish Aerospace & Defence industries, first in Edinburgh at The Scotsman’s A&D conference on the 3rd of March, and today at Moray Chamber of Commerce’s new networking platform “Science, Space and Stars”.

CTL was at last week’s landmark conference entitled “What Future for Aerospace and Defence Industries in Scotland?” held at the headquarters of The Scotsman newspaper. Chaired by The Scotsman’s Executive Editor Bill Jamieson the conference featured the keynote speakers including Robin Southwell (CEO of EADS UK) and Global Scot Angela Mathis (CEO of Think Tank Maths) and was rounded off by the keynote address delivered by Crawford Ghillies, Chairman of Scottish Enterprise. The full conference is summarised in a downloadable PDF document at this link. Pictured left is CTL’s Billy Rolls, who throughout the conference was in permanent demand to provide demonstrations of the award-winning Ncompass Intermittent Fault Detections equipment!Barely a week later, at the launch of Moray Chamber of Commerce’s networking group “Science, Space and Stars”, the implications of collaboration between Moray industry and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) industry sectors was discussed in detail at UHI’s Moray campus.

The launch event was headlined by an outstanding presentation from Professor George Fraser, the Director of Leicester University’s Space Research Centre. Originally hailing from Moray, Prof Fraser has spent his entire career at the cutting edge of Space technology and presented a fascinating insight into the huge extent to which UK is quietly succeeding in being a leading manufacturer and innovator of space instrumentation and satellite technology. Could Moray get involved in the Space sector and carve a high-growth niche for itself? Prof Fraser’s presentation concluded by saying that whilst people might normally say “Why here?”, what they should actually be saying is “Why not?”!From events of this type it is clear that the undisputable link between STEM, Aerospace and Defence businesses is being continually strengthened across Scotland and there are huge opportunities in the future for those businesses – from global players to SMEs – with the vision, the courage and the ability to ‘go for it’. Copernicus Technology Ltd typifies exactly that kind of organisation.

We are at the vanguard of innovating real solutions by exploiting the full capabilities of 100% unique Ncompass Intermittent Fault Detection technology to make No Fault Found and Intermittent Faults a thing of the past, and to bring to market brand new methods for assuring the integrity of electrical and electronic equipment throughout the entire platform/system life-cycle. These technologies and methods deliver step-changes in capability by vastly reducing the cost of maintaining aircraft whilst at the same time driving up their availability and reliability. The US DOD are convinced, and so are our latest UK customers. Are you?

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