Bureau Veritas successfully recommended Knorr to win the world's first iris gold medal certificate

Recently, Knorr rolling stock equipment (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Knorr Suzhou") officially passed the final review of the European Railway Industry Association (unife), becoming the first enterprise in the world to win the gold medal quality performance level of iris management system certification in the rail industry. As an independent third-party audit organization and long-term partner, Bureau Veritas successfully implemented the on-site audit, recommended and witnessed the birth of this achievement, and expressed heartfelt congratulations to Knorr Suzhou.

Since ISO / TS 22163 sets a very high standard, this audit is a great challenge for Knorr or bureau veritas. In the first 60 days before the audit, Bureau Veritas audit experts have received a large number of documents from Knorr, and then provided several days of on-site audit, and witnessed by unife experts to determine whether all the requirements in the more than 100 page list of questions are met. Auditors implement performance evaluation around five mandatory processes: requirements management, project management, control of externally provided processes, products and services, design and development, and provision of production and services. In addition, direct feedback from major customers of the enterprise is also evaluated. After the comprehensive review of multiple dimensions by Bureau Veritas experts, the evaluation scores of Knorr Suzhou all meet the requirements of iris gold medal standard.

About 15 years ago, in the face of the rapid development of the railway industry and the lagging unified management of the railway industry in the future, in order to improve the quality of railway products, reduce the frequency of traffic accidents, improve the management level of the whole industry and promote the pace of the development of the railway industry, the European Railway Industry Association (unife) jointly developed and issued the international railway industry standard (IRIS) with several well-known global suppliers and major customers. Iris system is a set of quality management system standards of railway industry and a quality evaluation (Management) system of railway industry. On the basis of ISO 9001, iris, as the quality management system of the railway industry, embodies the basic principles of quality management and the management idea centered on the whole life cycle of products, increases the special requirements of railway products on safety, reliability and quality, and expects to ensure customer satisfaction at a reasonable cost and manufacture high-quality products.