Procedure for verifying compliance with certain quality standards for products and services and their respective manufacturing processes. After a successful inspection, a certificate is awarded, often for a limited period of time. This certifies that a company has a standardised quality management system and a so-called "quality manual", in which the steps necessary for reproducible and verifiable product quality are described. The company to be certified describes which steps in (planning and) production are used to ensure the quality of the company's products in a traceable manner. This process is checked in a so-called "auditing" by a publicly recognised expert institution (e.g. TüV). The process also includes regular internal audits by our own employees and regular external audits by the institution that issued the certificate.
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