Quality
Standards
Our Integrated Management System (IMS) provides the foundation for a consistent and well documented approach to design and manufacture. Contron commissioned a bespoke IMS, and were one of the first UK companies to be certified to ISO 9001 for the design and development of industrial control systems. This has been successfully upgraded to the current ISO 9001:2015 standard.
We recognise the importance of minimising the environmental impact that products and services may have and attained ISO 14001 certification in 2006. This has been successfully upgraded to the current ISO 14001:2015 standard. Contron is committed to the continual improvement of our IMS and to the avoidance of pollution through recycling programmes.
As a company we realise that quality is the responsibility of all our engineers and we actively encourage and support individual membership of professional bodies. Contron also maintains companion company membership to the ‘Institute of Measurement and Control’.
Industry Associations
Contron has been a companion company of the Institute of Measurement and Control since September 2001 and became a Microsoft Registered Partner in 2005.
We are a Specialist Partner for Control Software with Omron, a Motion Partner for Schneider Electric, and ‘Solution Provider’ with Wago. We have recently been awarded ‘System Specialist’ for Mitsubishi and become a Solution Partner with Siemens.
Working to Standards
In order to maintain our high quality, we work to standards. Not just in running the business, but also in the methods we adopt for design, build and commissioning.
Some links to the ones we use most:
- BS EN 954-1:1997 Safety of machinery. Safety-related parts of control systems. General principles for design.
- BS EN ISO 13849-1:2008 Safety of machinery Safety-related parts of control systems. General principles for design.
- BS EN ISO 13849-2:2008 Safety of machinery Safety-related parts of control systems. Validation.
- BS EN ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery. General principles for design. Risk assessment and risk reduction.
- BS EN 62061:2005 Safety of machinery Functional safety of safety-related electrical, electronic and programmable electronic control systems.
“Quality and Integrity are the two fundamental principles that Contron has been built on. We know that unless the system and services we provide are a quality product, then this will cost us and you time and money, both in the short term with downtime and unwanted additional site support and in the long term for repeat business.
Knowing that you can trust and rely on Contron is good business for us both. You won’t find a better team that works as hard for you as us, unless of course you are looking at your own teams.”