Archive News
November 2007
TRL Technology (L3 Communications) chose CMCA(UK) to carry out an urgent 'Health Check' on a piece of equipment. This health check was necessary to give TRL a 'heads-up' of any obsolescence issues that may affect the equipment's future support. The urgent report was completed on time, within a two week deadline.
October 2007
Quote from Dave Johnston, ILS Manager at Goodrich SRS UK, after the first six monthsof their Obsolescence Management contract with CMCA(UK).
"The contract for RAPTOR has now been running for a few months and we are more than happy with the work being carried out by your personnel. The outputs have been extremely well received by our Customer. Glenn has been doing a wonderful job in chasing all of the issues tied up with this project and has given us great confidence that the programme is in safe hands. Reference other future programmes, be assured that as soon as we are given any requirements for obsolescence, we will contact yourselves as we would like to keep the obsolescence under 1 umbrella"
August 2007
CMCA(UK) are pleased to announce that we are now a Participating Contractor in the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) “Multi-Participant Framework agreement for Technical Support – FATS/2”.
Our scope covers the following areas:-
530 – 535 Computing Technologies and mathematical Techniques.
2760 Risk Management
2820 Parts Management
2831 Technical Illustration
2832 Technical Documents, Verification and Validation
2940 Obsolescence Equipment Health Check
2950 Obsolescence Component Monitoring
2960 Obsolescence Programme Review
2970 Obsolescence Impact Appraisal
2980 Obsolescence Part source of Supply
July 2007
CMCA(UK) chosen by BAE Systems for AS90 component monitoring.
CMCA(UK) are excited to announce that following a rigorous tendering process we have been down selected by AS90 Joint Project Team (AS90 JPT) to conduct Component Monitoring on critical materiel used in the AS90 Self Propelled Howitzer. CMCA(UK) are confident that this project will ultimately lead to the monitoring of components for other Land Systems.
CMCA(UK) chosen by Aviation Training International Limited for component monitoring.
ATIL are contract by the UK MoD to provide Training Services to support the British Army's Apache AH Mk1 Attack Helicopter. In delivering this, they employ state-of-the-art flight simulators and actual equipments which must be available to meet their customers training requirements. In order to support this they have decided to use CMCA(UK) to monitor critical parts for impending obsolescence, thus permitting time to react to potential problems prior to causing equipment down time.
June 2007
NATO CODIFICATION. With the winning of a new 3 year contract for NATO Codification Services, we have expanded our Codification Department with the addition of 2 new members of staff. They bring with them a wealth of experience and abilities to broaden the capability of the department and assist with the significant increase in input and allow the Team to continue to meet and exceed the demands of our customer, UKNCB in Glasgow. Further expansion is inevitable with the increase in direct and indirect codification business.
ISO 9001:2000. CMCA(UK) has received a fault-free re-accreditation to BSEN ISO9001:2000 for the scope of 'Spares Procurement, NATO Codification, Obsolescence Management and Associated Products'. As the Quality System underpins our entire work process and standards, we are pleased to be able to say we continue to provide Top Quality to our customers!
EXOSTAR. CMCA(UK) has been successful in becoming a Registered Member of the EXOSTAR supplier community. This membership facilitates the placing and response to requests for Information, Pricing or actual placing of orders and contracts with other EXOSTAR buyer members currently typically represented by BAE Systems, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Rolls Royce. We look forward to full participation in this new opportunity for business.
CMCA(UK) are pleased to announce that we have been contracted by Goodrich Surveillance & Reconnaissance Systems UK to supply Obsolescence Services.
CMCA(UK) recently supplied a department of BAE Systems with a combined populated Obsolescence and Pricing system that enables the production of customer specific priced catalogues along with assembly Obsolescence Reports.
February 2007
CMCA(UK) WIN NATO CODIFICATION CONTRACT. We are pleased to announce that CMCA(UK) have once again been successful in competing for and winning a contract for NATO Codification. The contract is for three years duration and was won in the face of some major competition. This success is historically important to us as the Company was established in 1997 to compete and were successful in winning this prestigious contract. We look forward to continuing to work with our friends and colleagues at TES TIG UKNCB in Glasgow in meeting and exceeding their stringent expectations!
November 2006
As part of our expansion plans, certain departments within CMCA(UK) moved to new larger offices in the centre of Worcester.
April 2006
We recently delivered a fully bespoke version of COMPaSS to the Submarines business of Rolls-Royce Marine Power. The Principal Engineer in charge of the Project states:
“COMPaSS is an integral part of, and underpins, our current and future obsolescence management strategy and processes. The Go-Live version of the tool has now been delivered and is excellent, offering features well beyond that of other tools available, despite being developed to very tight (and challenging) timescales. The business now has an excellent, customised, tool to support its proactive obsolescence management activities and is looking forward to working with you on the wider contract.”
For additional information on our Pro-active Obsolescence Services contact our Business Development Manager Ron Parrott on +44 (0) 7801 94 40 00 or email him at ron.parrott[at]cmcauk.co.uk
March 2006
The UK MOD approached CMCA(UK) with a request to conduct an obsolescence study on the available spare parts for a naval vessel earmarked for disposal. Following intensive investigation and research, and at the request of the Disposal Services Agency, we presented the findings of our report directly to the officials of the foreign government department involved.
