Product category: Optical Transceivers, Transponders and Repeaters
News Release from: Bookham
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 March 2005
Forum underlines telecomms approval
Bookham has become a full member of the QuEST Forum, a unique global partnership of over 140 telecomms suppliers and service providers
Bookham is continuing its commitment to quality and standards by becoming a full member of the Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecoms (QuEST) Forum, a unique global partnership of over 140 telecomms suppliers and service providers. Bookham's membership of the Forum - a group committed to the continual improvement of the quality and reliability of telecomms products and services - follows a global strategy to upgrade from the company's existing local site ISO9001:2000 quality management system standard to the requirements and measurements of the QuEST TL9000 approval.
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By gaining this approval, Bookham has now achieved a Global TL9000 approval certificate.
'Bookham is committed to being a leading global player in the telecomms market', said Chris Hawnt, Corporate Business and Quality Systems Manager at Bookham.
'As part of the QuEST Forum, Bookham will be at the forefront of developments in this vital sector, helping to define the telecommunications industry's leading global quality management system through the sharing of best practices in collaboration with its customers and competitors'.
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'Furthermore, the Global TL9000 certificate offers our customers further assurance that Bookham products and services are truly world-class'.
TL9000 defines additional system requirements and measurements over and above ISO9001 for the design, development, production, delivery, installation and maintenance of telecomms products and services and is a result of collaborative effort between customers and their suppliers.
Bookham received its certificate at the Annual Global QuEST Forum, held last month in Tampa, Florida.
'The TL9000 Global certificate is a hard-won award that only truly world-class organisations can aspire to and we are pleased to see that a company as well-known as Bookham has shown such an ongoing commitment to reach this standard', said Don Pickens, Chief Operating Officer at the QuEST Forum.
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