Quality Control

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Assembly Contracts was the first UK contractor to be approved to BS EN ISO9001:2000.

Our Baseefa / Atex licence enables us to produce product for hazardous areas.

Other approvals include FDA, Thatcham & UL

Our workmanship standard for electronic assemblies is IPC-A-610C.

We can also agree additional specific documentation & quality assurance requirements specifically for your products.

ACL is one of the very few assembly houses to have a custom fully integrated networked computerised stock & QA control system.

Written by ourselves, it incorporates all of our stock control and purchasing knowledge & know now of the last 21 years.

All data from inward material deliveries through to outward product shipments is stored electronically.

Completely paperless !!

 

Inspection & Test Quality Control & Testing is carried out in-house or to customer specific requirements. Over 200 peices of test equipment on site. Including a Spea ATE test set up, Automatic optical inspection. Stereo Dynascopes, magnification lamps, calibrated measuring tools, flash testers, etc. In addition to computer aided tests, custom jigs can be designed. Anti-static measures are taken for all products, including flooring, seating, benches and anti-static wrist & heel straps. Our technical ability allow us to offer complete functional testing. This has obvious benefits in releasing your staff from goods inwards inspection and testing, or allows distribution of the finished product direct to your end user.

Please contact us if you have a requirement for any one of the following approvals :

 

 

Automotive Approvals

EEC directives require that all products whether they are a component for a vehicle or an after market accessory, be certified by the Vehicle Certification Agency. (VCA).  The main EMC standard is 95/54/EC. See also Baseefa where intrinsic safety is also required.

The only standard that provides freedom of movement across Europe is the automotive type approval 'e' mark.
Relevant standards are 95/54/EC, 97/24/EC and ECE Regulation 10.02. Also 75/322/EEC (as amended by 2000/2/EC) from 1 January 2001.

Documents specified in the directive together with a number of sample products are required for assessment and testing.

The directive defines the permitted test methods and the test limits to be used for radiated immunity and for radiated emissions.

Test reports are prepared and a complete set of technical documentation and test reports are submitted to the approval authority.

Subject to a satisfactory review of the submitted documents and CoP assessment, the approval body issues a 'Type approval certificate' which authorises the manufacturer to put the "e" mark, or "E" mark, on the product(s).

ACL is Thatcham approved product manufacturer & designer

Other approvals : PPAP, ISO/TS-16949, AEC-Q100

 

ATEX / CSA / Baseefa - Approvals Areas where there is the possibility of the presence of an explosive mixture of flammable gas or vapour and air are known as 'hazardous' and other areas as 'safe' or 'non-hazardous'. Any electrical equipment used in hazardous areas, must be specially tested and approved to ensure that, in use even under a fault condition, it cannot initiate an explosion. In Europe, hazardous areas are generally defined as follows:   Zone 0 An area where an explosive mixture is likely to be present at all times under normal operating conditions. Zone 1 An area where an explosive, mixture is likely to occur in normal operation Zone 2 In the United States, hazardous areas are classified by two Divisions.  Division 1 equates to Zone 0 and Zone 1 and Division 2 equates to Zone 2. in Europe equipment, certified for use in hazardous areas, normally falls into one of the following categories. Intrinsically Safe Denoted as EEx ia or EEx ib Zones 0, 1,  2 Zones 1 or 2 Flame Proof Denoted as EEx d Zones 1 or 2 Increased Safety Denoted as EEx e Zones 1 or 2