Quality Certifications

HellermannTyton’s United States plants have maintained ISO / QS / TS certification since 1998 and are currently certified to both TS16949:2002 and ISO9001:2000.

Please see the following copies of our current TS and ISO certificates:

Facility Certification: Milwaukee, WI

TS16949:2002

The ISO/TS 16949 was jointly developed by the IATF members and submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for approval and publication. The document is a common automotive quality system requirements catalog based on ISO 9001:2000, AVSQ (Italian), EAQF (French), QS-9000 (U.S.) and VDA6.1 (German) automotive catalogs. This document, coupled with customer-specific requirements defines quality system requirements for use in the automotive supply chain.

The IATF has developed a common registration scheme for supplier 3^rd party registration to the ISO/TS 16949. The registration scheme includes third party auditor qualifications and common rules for consistent global registration. Some of the benefits of the IATF registration scheme include:

• improved product and process quality
• additional confidence for global sourcing
• reassignment of supplier resources to quality improvement
• common quality system approach in the supply chain for supplier/subcontractor development and consistency
• reduction in multiple 3^rd party registrations

ISO 9001:2000

ISO 9001:2000 specifies quality system requirements to be used where an organization requires the ability to consistently provide conforming products, either material or services to meet a customers expectations. The requirements are aimed at achieving customer satisfaction by preventing nonconformances.

The ISO 9001:2000 standard provides a model on which an organization may build an effective quality management system, including:

• Increased efficiency of your operations
• Cost savings from reduced rejected product and fewer warranty claims
• Continual improvement of the quality of your products and services
• Increased traceability and accountability throughout your organization
• Enhanced ability to examine how employees work and interact between functions
• Enhanced communication among employees
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Fewer customer audits and surveys
• Improved competitive positioning within your industry
• Increased marketability of your company and its products
• Perceived higher quality
• Recognition by your customers and suppliers that you have a first–class quality management system
• Improved return on assets