All AT&S plants certified to ISO 9001, TS 16949, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001

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(2010), "All AT&S plants certified to ISO 9001, TS 16949, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001", Circuit World, Vol. 36 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/cw.2010.21736cab.002

All AT&S plants certified to ISO 9001, TS 16949, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001

Article Type: Industry news From: Circuit World, Volume 36, Issue 3

As a global corporate citizen, combining entrepreneurship with social and environmentally conscious behaviour is of key importance for AT&S. The worldwide audits completed towards the end of March demonstrate once again how AT&S, as one of the world’s strongest performing producers of PCBs, achieves the optimal combination of economic performance and social commitment with the aid of an integrated management system.

The AT&S system combines quality, environmental, health and occupational safety factors in a uniform system that documents the relevance and equal importance of these factors and ensures the sustainability of business activities. It is based on the ISO 9001 and TS 16949 (quality management for automotive production) quality standards, the ISO 14001 environmental management standard and the OHSAS 18001 standard for occupational health and safety. The worldwide audits carried out by independent auditors at the end of March were completed successfully and confirmed that the guidelines were being systematically applied in all AT&S plants.

The AT&S product portfolio includes single-sided, double-sided, multilayer, HDI, flexible, rigid-flex, and semi-flexible PCBs. These are custom-tailored to the specific requirements of each individual customer. Every year, AT&S supplies a total of roughly 15,000 different products, ranging from prototypes to large series. AT&S is very heavily concentrated on highly complex HDI PCBs, the production of which involves more than 50 different steps. The quality of the products and the production processes is therefore of the utmost importance, and represents a major distinguishing feature between AT&S and its competitors. The objective is to guarantee the quality required by the customer, to minimise the reject rate and to optimise the use of capacities and production materials.

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