Acceptance casting
Trust is good…
but control is better. Ambitious goals are set and must be monitored. This applies not only to one`s own children and, for example, learning foreign vocabulary, but also to safety-relevant and highly demanding castings. Many of our products – especially in rail transport technology, shipbuilding and pressure equipment applications – are provided with acceptance certificates. This means that an acceptance engineer or test engineer from our customer (or a testing institute commissioned by them) comes to our premises and monitors and documents the proper execution of the tests and compliance with the specified values.
Supply chains are becoming increasingly complex
Officially, these so-called 3.2 certificates in accordance with EN 10204 contain the “confirmation of conformity with the order, stating the results of specific tests” by “the manufacturer’s acceptance inspector, who is independent of the production department, and the acceptance inspector appointed by the purchaser or the acceptance inspector specified in the official regulations”. Against the backdrop of increasingly complex supply chains, Lloyds Register (http://www.lr.org/de/news_and_events/news/249962-Abnahmeprufzeugnisses-3-2-der-EN-10204.aspx) is cited here as an example: In 2014, experts from Lloyd’s Register, pressure equipment manufacturers (such as Alstom Power Thermal Services and Sulzer Pumps) and steel traders in the
United Kingdom sat down together for a meeting on the 3.2 acceptance test certificate. Frustration was expressed about foreign suppliers “whose pipes and fittings meet the specifications on paper but fail the laboratory tests. This was attributed to several factors, e.g. test certificates that had either been altered or marked with certification body labels without the appropriate authorisation.”
This cannot happen to you with us. As a German manufacturer, we are obliged to comply with the laws applicable here – in addition, our own comprehensive quality assurance measures, both during production and before delivery, offer enormous security; and any queries you may have will be answered promptly.