Lloyd's Register Quality Schemes for machinery, materials and
hull construction.
As a manufacturer, you need confidence in your final product but
will want to ensure that the costs of manufacture are kept
down.
Lloyd's Register's Quality Schemes are designed to give you
confidence in your final product at least equivalent to that
obtained from traditional survey techniques. Our direct involvement
and thus your surveying costs are reduced, and the Schemes have
therefore proved to be very cost-effective for series manufacture
of materials, products and equipment.
What are Lloyd's Register Quality Schemes?
Lloyd's Register Quality Schemes provide you with an alternative
to traditional survey techniques utilising quality principles for
the certification of machinery, components, materials and hull
structures.
They enable you to assess a product's quality during manufacture
through a combination of product and system monitoring and quality
assurance principles.
The Schemes currently available cover:
• machinery and component manufacture (QAM)
• materials and components manufactured at approved works
(QA)
• hull construction forming, fabrication and block assembly
(QAH).
What are the benefits?
Our Quality Schemes provide manufacturers with many benefits for
series manufacture of materials, products or equipment, such
as:
• improved delivery schedules
• confidence in product quality
• reduced manufacturing costs
• streamlined processes
• access to worldwide marketing opportunities via our web site.
How do I obtain Quality Scheme approval?
Once you have made an enquiry we:
• review the information you submit relating to your product,
manufacturing equipment and process, test facilities, staffing,
sub-contractors and quality manual
• assess your works to examine in detail all aspects of production
and, in particular, the arrangements you have in place for quality
control
• issue a quality assurance approval certificate, which is valid
for three years and renewable, subject to satisfactory performance
and re-assessment every three years
• enter your company name in the approvals list on our web
site.
During the period for which your certificate is valid, we visit
each approved works to verify satisfactory maintenance of the
approved system.
What next?
If you would like to progress your enquiry further please choose
one of the following: