1. Validate quality, while exposing and adjusting substandard shop floor processes;

2. Deliver uniform repair practices to all customers—Big or small;

3. Retain hard earned customers by reducing warranty claims utilizing industry recognized documentation and calibration;

4. Focus employee's attention on critical processes;

5. Bring job documentation and calibration up to industry standards;

6. Motor end users recognize EASA as the electromechanical authority and place a high value on their third-party oversite.

It takes from three to five hours. If the service center is well prepared, has supplied us with shop documentation beforehand and if equipment/instruments are calibrated and calibration certificates are organized-it takes about three hours. However, if shop documentation is lacking, equipment and instruments are not calibrated, it can easily take five hours.

NO. With digital cameras, email document attachments, facetime we shouldn’t need to return. Of the eighty Accreditation audits we’ve conducted, we’ve never had to return.

At the conclusion of the onsite audit, we have a meeting with service center interested staff to discuss things that are going well, and issues that must be addressed. Staff members will have an opportunity to present their position, establishing an agreement as to next steps and a date to complete any open tasks. A “To-Do” list is created within a few days of the onsite audit, e-mailed to the service center with:

1) Instrument, equipment, and/or documentation to be addressed;

2) Necessary proof and method of delivery to satisfy that the adjustments occurred;

3) An agreed upon date of completion from the post-audit meeting;

4) A “drop-dead” date of completion, unless arrangements are made and;

5) Date of completion.

Yes. Balance equipment is covered on page eight of the EASA Accreditation Checklist, indicating balance equipment may be calibrated "by service center or an outsource firm". If in-house we strongly suggest having a written procedure that includes a calibrated scale, fixture designed and used exclusively for the purpose, fixture storage designation, certificate, calibration log, and identify qualifications of personnel to accomplish the task.

Yes, effective June 26, 2020 EASA announced the change, giving accredited members a choice between in-person or remote (virtual) onsite audits. However, a service center's initial onsite audit may only be conducted in-person.