Quality & Certification

"A major foundation of EMEC is a total commitment to quality. EMEC management and employees are committed to providing the customer with outstanding, standards-compliant products and services.
EMEC, an ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 certified company (since 1997), builds quality and reliability into its products and services through excellence in design, workmanship, and statistical control methods, as well as a continual drive for improvement. EMEC's commitment to quality has led to a number of quality awards and recognition by vendors."

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ISO 9000

ISO 9000 is the structural framework of a business system that specifies, in very broad terms, the necessary components of a quality management system. Rather than being specific to any one industry, ISO 9000 details the basic requirements of the quality function for all industries.

ISO 9000 was originally published in 1987 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a worldwide federation of national standards bodies, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization was founded in 1946 to develop a common set of standards for manufacturing, trade and communications.

However, it is important to note that ISO 9000 is not a product standard. Rather, it is a system standard. Its primary purpose is to provide organizations with useful internationally recognized models for operating a quality management system.

ISO 14001

ISO 14001 is the conformance standard within the family of ISO 14000 documents developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in Geneva, Switzerland. Similar in structure to the ISO 9000 quality management system standard, ISO 14001 outlines key requirements companies should comply with in order to operate in an environmentally responsible manner.

The ISO 14000 elements provide diverse organizations a framework for managing and continually improving their environmental programs. Many companies currently monitor air and water permits, or toxic use reduction programs. Utilizing ISO 14001, companies can now merge environmental programs into one coherent system to efficiently manage all environmental activities.

In short, ISO 14001 provides organizations with a competitive advantage, by demonstrating to their customers that their environmental processes and impact is effectively managed, continually improving, and part of the corporate management system.

Effective ISO 14001 implementation should bring with it both reductions in environmental risk and environmental costs. Achieving this voluntary registration should further improve regulatory relations, and demonstrate to customers and to your community your company is truly environmentally aware.

ISO 9000:2000

The new ISO 9001:2000 standard was published on December 15, 2000 with a three-year transition period for all companies to become certified to the new standard. As of December 15, 2003, all certificates issued to the current ISO 9000:1994 standard will become invalid. The purpose behind the new ISO 9001:2000 standard was to provide users of the ISO 9001/2/3:1994 standards an opportunity to add value and enhance their performance through continuous improvement of their processes. The new ISO 9001:2000 standard includes improvements over the previous standard in four key areas, which include:

- Increased compatibility with the ISO 14000 series of standards (environmental management standard).
- Creating a common structure based upon a process model.
- Creating a method to demonstrate continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
- Developing metrics to determine how effectively your internal processes are actually working. The focus is on results.