ISO 9001

 

 

All Alpine factories are ISO 9001.

ISO 9001 is one of a series of three international standards dealing with quality systems. It is a model for quality control in design/development, manufacturing, testing, installation and servicing. It is the most comprehensive level of registration in the internationally recognized ISO 9000 family for quality system management.

ISO 9001 gives customers and suppliers a single set of guidelines that is accepted worldwide and that can be followed to achieve a definable level of quality. The third-party certification confirms that a company's systems for accepting orders, reviewing customers' specifications, manufacturing and testing products, and delivering those products to its customers are quality controlled and should produce consistent results.

A supplier's ability to conform to the ISO 9001 standard is accessed via the standard's Quality System Requirements- a set of twenty clauses, each designed to address a specific portion of a quality system: management responsibility; quality system; contract review; design control; document control; purchasing; purchaser-supplied product; product identification and traceability; process control; inspection and testing; inspection measuring and test equipment; inspection and test status; control of non-conforming product; corrective action; handling, storage, packaging and delivery; quality records; internal quality audits; training; servicing; and statistical techniques