metrology software products (MSP) has become one of the first manufacturing software companies to be certified with the latest version of the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management standard.
The assessment was completed recently by BSI staff, who found that MSP’s procedures and controls for both software development and implementation met all the requirements of the new standard.
MSP uses metrology to help their clients reduce costs and increase profitability by maximising machine productivity, reducing times for part setup and minimising scrap. Since their founding in 2002, the company has used their expertise in machine tool optimisation and five-axis metrology to support manufacturing. MSP software is used across many areas of engineering but has had notable success in the aerospace industry, where it benefits companies ranging in size from multinational primes to independent suppliers.
The approval process for the new ISO 9001:2015 standard took MSP two years, beginning with training in the latest version of the standard by BSI specialists. 18 months of internal development work followed, with guidance from BSI to ensure MSP’s processes were compliant with the standard across all parts of the company’s activities. Finally, a six-month review was carried out by BSI to ensure that the new processes were fully compliant with the requirements of the new standard.
Commercial director Tony Brown commented: “With validation of the ISO 9001:2015 certification, our customers can be confident that they will receive a world-class level of software customisation, system installation and integration, with traceability at every stage of the process, from placing the order up to the first parts coming off the machine. The work we have done to meet the requirements of the standard has already improved the ways in which we support our customers; we now have better systems for recording information throughout the life cycle of any project, and for distributing data around our company and to the customer.”
