AERZEN relies on uniform quality standards globally Certifications In order to standardise the quality level worldwide and to further increase this for our customers, AERZEN is working to create globally applicable quality standards, by implementing a company-wide integrated management system. Olaf Tanner, Department Manager of Quality: Our goal is constant quality in all its aspects. Numerous quality certificates attest to this: within the producing companies of AERZEN group, quality is a high priority. At the beginning of 2017, AERZEN Germany implemented an audited integrated management system with the components DIN EN ISO 9001 (quality management), 14001 (environmental management) and 50001 (energy management), as well as OHSAS 18001 (working and safety protection management). Moreover, the German subsidiaries Emmerthaler Apparatebau, as well as RKR Gebläse und Verdichter are ISO 9001-certified. This also applies to AERZEN in Belgium, Hungary, the U.S.A., China, India and Korea, indeed Belgium, the U.S.A. and China already have the most current certificates according to ISO 9001:2015. Furthermore, all companies have different special certifications depending on their service portfolios, for example for pressure equipment and container construction, gas meters or explosion protection. The head office at Aerzen is ultimately responsible for quality assurance across the group of companies worldwide. There, around 60 employees take care of the subject of quality, three of them focus entirely on certifications. They support the mostly two- or three-person quality teams in the other companies. The first “Global Quality Meeting” will take place in Aerzen on 25-26 October 2017 and all quality managers will be involved. One of the topics on the agenda will be the possible standardisation of the management systems of the company. “Our goal is constant quality in all its aspects. This can be reached with a globally certified integrated management system which is usefully supplemented by special certifications depending on the local company”, according to Olaf Tanner, Department Manager of Quality. His representative, Christoph Schmidt, stresses the important advantages of a global solution: “We will be able to serve the markets much better. Moreover, having such a system in place is very often a prerequisite in order to receive public and safety-relevant orders.“ And what means an integrated AERZEN management system for customers? Tanner’s answer on this is clear: “Customers can always rely on AERZEN quality, no matter where in the world their purchases are made."
