scope:

This European standard defines the inspection rules and the cosmetic acceptance criteria for surfaces of aircraft cabin equipment. Surfaces will be considered under the aspects of technical feasibility of the industrial design.

This standard outlines the framework between airlines, supplier and OEMs with regard to cosmetic issues.

This document aims to:

a) Provide the supplier or manufacturer with quality criteria, which need to be met during the production, testing- and quality-inspection-process.

b) Guide airline-, OEM- and supplier-quality assurance with a description of cosmetic standards for following inspections:

- supplier internal QA inspection;

- first article inspection;

- source inspection;

- incoming inspection;

- final assembly line, cabin inspection;

- customer presentation.