Quality

TMD Technologies is regularly audited against, and approved to the rigorous quality standard BS EN ISO9001:2000.

TMD’s quality philosophy is to adopt and introduce best practice – as developed and taught by the leading experts in the field of quality. The company seeks to instil quality awareness, together with a process of continuous improvement in all parts, and at all levels of the organisation.

The following are some of the key aspects:

• The process of product design and development follows a format to monitor progress, through design reviews, and strict adherence to a well proven procedure, to ensure the product will achieve optimum performance and reliability.
• All ruggedised products are subjected to a rigorous application of ESS (Environmental Stress Screening) and HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) to expose any design or component weaknesses.
• Use of "5S" Initiatives taken from the Japanese approach to quality - (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardise and Sustain),
• Inspection and quality control during production and test.
• Photoflow quality control systems to reduce ambiguity and improve consistency.
• Systematic cause & effect failure analysis to enable problems to be solved quickly.
• Supplier improvement initiatives and ship to stock policies.
• A continual product and process improvement policy using customer feedback and live, regularly updated quality databases.