Industry News Barron Industries earns NADCAP Accreditation for Digital Radiography


Barron Industries has taken another step to ensure its precision investment castings meet the stringent quality standards of the aerospace industry. The Michigan-based manufacturer has achieved NADCAP Accreditation for Digital Radiography, a Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) process for aluminum, steel and stainless steel components. NADCAP is the acronym for The Aerospace and Defense


National


Contractors Accreditation Program – a global cooperative program of major companies designed to manage a cost-effective consensus approach to special processes and products and provide continual improvement within the aerospace and defense industries. NDT is just one of the special processes that NADCAP includes in its scope of accreditation services. Digital Radiography is becoming the preferred industrial imaging method because of ongoing technological advancements and the significant reduction in price. Computed


radiography (CR)


cassettes use phosphor imaging plates to capture the X-ray image, instead of traditional X-ray film. The CR cassette goes into a reader to convert the data into a digital image. World-leading aerospace companies such as Airbus, The Boeing Company, GE Aviation and Rolls-Royce work together with industry suppliers to agree to the standard that a supplier must attain in order to become and remain NADCAP approved. Increasingly, aerospace companies will only sub-contract with NADCAP approved suppliers, as this is a globally recognized industry-wide standard of work ensuring that a part purchased from India is of similar quality to a part originating from Detroit. NADCAP


accreditation proves


Barron’s in-house radiography complies with the strict requirements of the aerospace and defense industries. Daily system performance checks


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ensure detection of even the slightest indications, and regular audits verify the company maintains requirements of NADCAP, as well as our aerospace customers, including GE


Aviation,


Boeing and others. Barron Industries is also NADCAP


Certified for Penetrant Testing, another form of Non-Destructive testing. The Penetrant


Testing process


involves applying a fluorescent penetrant to the surface of the test piece. After a specified time, the excess penetrant is removed from the surface and a developer is applied to facilitate the surface inspection and pull the penetrant trapped in the flaw back to the surface. Finally, a post-inspection cleaning to protect against corrosion should be applied. Barron’s NADCAP Accreditation for


welding also increases the company’s aerospace


investment capabilities.


Barron performs welding in conformance with the ASME Section IX of the Boiler Code, AWS D17.1, as well as requirements for Ballistic Steel Welding. “With our newly acquired NADCAP


and GE Aviation certifications, we’re prepared to meet the stringent standards of the aerospace industry,” said President and CEO Bruce Barron. Also registered to the AS9100 aerospace quality system, the company has received GE Aviation Certification and was awarded a renewable 5-year LTA for cast and machined stainless steel components for the new GE9X high- bypass turbofan aircraft engine.


The


anticipated 20-year contract is valued at $30-40 million. In 2019, Barron’s orders for


aerospace investment castings increased by 20 percent, and the Michigan-based company projects an additional 20 percent growth in the aerospace industry in 2020.


conformance


Barron Industries has also achieved with


cybersecurity casting


controls required for defense company suppliers that handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). The manufacturer received certification for compliance with 110 cybersecurity best practices outlined in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171. The certification granted by NSF Global Business Solutions applies to IT services to


internal company employees and protection of company proprietary information. The NIST 800 certification ensures


Barron’s preparedness in serving its aerospace and defense customers that need to maintain information security throughout their supply chains, said Barron. “By safeguarding company information from attack, we are now even more competitive within the defense industry,” he said. “By obtaining outside certification of NIST compliance, we are ahead of the curve.”


Barron produces critical cast precision components used in aircraft and defense technologies for both domestic and foreign markets including the Cockpit Control Feel and Drive Actuator for the Navy’s V-22 Osprey and fuel and HVAC systems on the Boeing 767 and Apache helicopter. Other aerospace investment castings manufactured by Barron Industries include: • Exhaust components – inlet and outlet tubes, diffusers


• Hydraulic pump housings • Brackets • Door latches and hinges • Passenger seat components • Cargo securing and handling hardware


• Fluid pump and control components


• Instrumentation housings Barron Industries produces precision-machined components for many of the ground vehicles manufactured by world-leading defense


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