News Release from: Poeton Industries
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 February 2003

Poeton beats the rush for approval

Surface coating specialist Poeton Industries has received ISO9001:2000 accreditation following two double audits.

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With the current ISO9002:1994 standard due to become extinct at the end of 2003, many companies will be busy preparing for their ISO9001:2000 audits to ensure that they complete the transition from one standard to the other within the allotted three-year period. However, one company that doesn't need to rush is surface coating specialist Poeton Industries, which has been approved a year early in December 2002, following two double audits. Explains quality manager Rob Smart: "The new standard is a process approach to systems management, focused on continual improvement and customer satisfaction.

From the outset we decided to include research and development to the scope of our approval yet still completed in just eighteen months".

He claims that Poeton is the only surface coating company to include R and D and design in its accreditation scope, and says that the extra work, which involved Poeton's R and D manager Dr John Archer, included a complete overhaul of R and D procedures, coating database, sample systems and feedback documentation.

"At the time it created a great deal of extra work, but in the long run it will benefit both Poeton and our customers", he says.

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