Quality Processes Ensure Reliable Products
Quality begins with a culture of lean design and manufacturing processes. Tracewell employs engineering accountability from capturing customer requirements and design to post sales and end-of-life product support.
Our expert engineers personally monitor all quality test procedures. Tracewell uses an ISO 9001 documented approach to product design, as well as sophisticated simulation, manufacturing, and final testing to ensure highly reliable products with predicable results.
Quality Management
- Systems subjected to 100% custom testing
- MTBF calculations
- MTBF’s >2,500,000 hrs
- Statistical analysis on failures
- Detailed SPC database
- ISO 9001
- Safety certification
- EMC testing
- Reliability
- Data collection
Tracewell management and engineering teams review quality data collected at each step of a product's life cycle for accurate insight. We work directly with the quality team to document processes and requirements through key quality metrics, including:
- Customer satisfaction/expectations
- Ship product quality level (Metric through Returned Material)
- Process variation, improved FPY
Continuous Improvement and Education
- IPC/EIA J-STD-001, Requirements for Soldered Electrical Assemblies
- IPC-A-610, The Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies
- IPC/WHMA-A-620, Requirements and Acceptance for Cable and Wire Harness Assemblies
ISO 9001:2008
Tracewell earned the ISO 9001 certification in 1992. To ensure continuing compliance, in addition to periodic audits by our registrar (BVQI), we have internal audit teams that regularly evaluate our adherence to the systems required by the ISO standard.
