What is ISO?

ISO stands for 'International Organization for Standardization' and is a worldwide federation of national standardization institutes (ISO members).

ISO 9001:2015 is the highest version of an international quality standard and requires a structured way of working built according to the high-level structure. Important core elements are: continuous improvement, process approach, organizational context analysis, stakeholders and risk management..

ISO 14001:2015 is an internationally accepted standard and is a useful management system for evaluating, improving and reporting environmental performance and monitoring compliance with environmental legislation.

This means that there is a good product (without errors or shortcomings), a good price, a plausible delivery time, punctuality, good communication and service.

Organisations in possession of an ISO certificate are inspected (half)annually by a competent body.

OptimaT has been ISO certified since 1999

To be recertified every year we need to comply with certain rules, such as::

• Meet the specifications of the product/service
• Control of documents and registrations
• Staff education and training
• Order and cleanliness
• Identification of goods through the production process
• Introduction and implementation of control procedures
• Monitoring and measurement of products, services and processes
• Risk analysis
• Caring for the working environment and infrastructure
• Control of measuring equipment
• Control of anomalous products
• Measurement and analysis
• Continuous improvement
• ...