Notice to our vendors, customers, and employees. In our on-going effort to keep everyone safe and healthy, we would like to share the CIA&D/kSARIA policy as it relates to the COVID-19. With your planned visit to one of our facilities, we ask that you review the following questions. If you answer yes to any of [...]
FOD Awareness and Prevention at CIA&D. FOD awareness and prevention is an important part of the production process at CIA&D. Our technicians regularly check for, and seek to eliminate, FOD in their work areas every single day. However, on every working Friday morning we do a “deep clean” throughout all of the manufacturing areas. This [...]
CIA&D’s Dale Roney has received certification to train in-house personnel in the latest procedures for aerospace wire harness manufacturing and fabrication. Dale Roney, Quality Engineer for CIA&D, has successfully completed his certification as IPC Trainer for IPC/WHMA-A-620. This further enhances the commitment of Co-Operative Industries to manufacturing and inspecting wire harnesses to the industry [...]
Following successful certification, Co-Operative Industries Aerospace & Defense now has an onsite DMIR for our FAA/PMA products. Deborah Clark, CIA&D Quality Management System Representative, has received her Certificate of Designation from the FAA as a Designated Manufacturing Inspection Representative (DMIR).Having Deborah as our onsite DMIR is a cost and time saver for both the company [...]
Employee Incentive Awards Congratulations to Alex Komisarz (Stockroom) and Oanh Vo (Legacy) for their contributions in improving processes at CIA&D! In recognition of their suggestions for improvements in their respective work areas, they each received a cash award for their ideas. Alex’s suggestion for a change in the F-35 work order picking procedure resulted in [...]
CIA&D Employees Receive IPC J-STD-001 Solder Specialist Certification This fall, CIA&D added four new IPC soldering specialists to the company roster. Patrick Costigan, Medra Thornton, Chris Duncan, and Dale Roney (not pictured) all attended the J-STD-001 training course held by CIA&D’s very own IPC Trainer Andrew Ehmann. The course took place over a 1 [...]
Melissa Harding and Claire Kern (Configuration Management at CIA&D) are doing their part to support homeless veterans in our area. They are leading a program called the Clean Start Initiative (CSI), which collects unused toiletries for donation to Patriot House, a local transitional housing program for veterans. If you would like to help, you can [...]
Supporting Our Troops in Afghanistan: CIA&D and the White Settlement ISD Education Foundation Board Join Forces Working together, the White Settlement ISD, Education Foundation Board, and CIA&D amassed over 1,374 pounds of personal items for our troops in Afghanistan. These were gathered with the intention of showing support and appreciation for those service men and [...]
