Pittsburgh, Aug. 29, 2012 – ASPEX Corporation, an FEI Company, recently was awarded an ISO 9001:2008 management system certificate by SRI Quality System Registrar. ASPEX located in Delmont, Pa., designs, manufactures, services and sells scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and provides analytical support for academic, industrial and manufacturing applications.
“Awarding of this certification acknowledges that ASPEX Corp. has demonstrated effective implementation of a management system,” says A. Joseph Falcsik, vice president of certification for SRI. “ISO 9000 certification provides evidence to customers, suppliers, employees and the community of a company’s commitment to producing a quality product and providing customer satisfaction.”
ISO 9001:2008 is a process-based certification which recognizes an organization’s ability to link business objectives with operating effectiveness. Companies that achieve management system certification to ISO 9001:2008 have demonstrated:
- Effective implementation of documentation and records management
- Commitment to customers from top management
- Establishment of clear policy, planning and implementation
- Efficient resource management, process control, measurement and analysis
- Continual improvement of the system
- Conformance to and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements
“We are proud to have received this particular ISO certification,” says Ernie Emmerling, quality manager at ASPEX. “ASPEX has worked hard to earn a reputation for the highest level of customer satisfaction in the SEM market, and this ISO certificate further assures our customers that our products and services are not only safe and efficient, but backed by a company that puts quality first throughout all levels of the organization.”
The ISO certification comes less than a month after the company’s launch of EXpressX, the fastest automated bench-top microscopy system available. EXpressX, combines a powerful SEM, ASPEX’s proprietary OmegaMax™ energy-dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDX) technology and Perception 2 software. In developing this affordable integrated microscopy platform, ASPEX provides increased knowledge of particles—size, number, location, morphology and characterization—faster, automatically and without the need for expert oversight, all leading to increased profitability right from the production floor.
SRI Quality System Registrar is an internationally accredited registrar for management systems standards, such as ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO/TS 16949, ISO 13485, and environmental management systems standards such as ISO 14001. SRI also provides public training for auditing, implementing, and maintaining these standards.
ASPEX Corporation, an FEI Company, is a leading provider of integrated microanalysis, providing customers the unprecedented ability to rapidly and automatically detect, identify, quantify and characterize the features of an entire sample, giving them optimal quality control, production capacity and profitability. In short, ASPEX gives their customers the Power to Perceive, turning data into information that customers can use to maximize quality control efforts and bottom-line profitability. For more information on ASPEX visit www.aspexcorp.com.
FEI (Nasdaq: FEIC) is a leading diversified scientific instruments company. It is a premier provider of electron- and ion-beam microscopes and solutions for nanoscale applications across many industries: industrial and academic materials research, life sciences, semiconductors, data storage, natural resources and more. With more than 60 years of technological innovation and leadership, FEI has set the performance standard in transmission electron microscopes (TEM), scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and DualBeams™, which combine a SEM with a focused ion beam (FIB). Headquartered in Hillsboro, Ore., USA, FEI has over 2,000 employees and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world. More information can be found at: www.fei.com.
Contact at ASPEX Corp:
Ernie Emmerling, 724-468-5400, ext. 316, [email protected]
Contact at SRI:
Christopher Lake, 724-934-9000, ext. 625, [email protected]