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Quality Policy
IFP’s quality policy applies to every research and development project we undertake, and to its methods as much as to its targets.
An efficient quality system
In 2006, we overhauled our quality policy to focus it on four main goals:
- meeting explicit and implicit demand from IFP clients and partners (industrial firms and government agencies),
- enhancing our project-based management system, in particular stretching it to encompass risk management and collection of knowledge,
- controlling and continuously improving research and functional-division services, further stepping up goal-based management,
- delivering efficient research back-up and resource management, anticipating requirements and optimizing service/cost ratios.
The Projects Office, which we set up in 2004, provides project managers with methodological support (in particular as regards quality criteria). This office is part of the Quality and Internal Auditing division, and also runs internal audits to ensure research divisions harness available best practices.
Testing-facility certification and optimization
All IFP business units will be certified by the end of 2007.
We are concurrently optimizing our testing facilities, in particular rolling out Computer-Assisted Maintenance Management (CAMM) applications which will significantly enhance control over metrology and safety as well as maintenance.
We are also rolling out an OHSAS18001-based safety-management system across IFP, and our Powertrains operation recently earned ISO14001 environmental-management compliance certification.
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IFP Quality Policy
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