Quality Assurance

Elbit Systems SAR and Data Links implements Quality Assurance procedures conforming to the requirements of ISO-9001:2000 and MIL-Q-9858.

Quality Assurance responsibilities include:

• Establishing quality assurance policy and supervising its implementation.
• Initiating, organizing, publishing and maintaining methods and procedures associated with quality and reliability of the product and its components.
• Performing inspections (incoming, in-process, in-stores, etc.).
• Involvement in product development and manufacturing, checking product compliance with specification or contractual requirements.

Appraisals and Assessments:

• CMMI Maturity Level 3 awarded following an Appraisal performed and certified by Kasse Initiatives LLC of Texas, USA.
• Assessed and Registered by the U.K.-based NQA in accordance with the requirements of EN 9104:2006.

Quality engineering contributes its expertise in support of all planning/development activities to assure the verification of specification requirement and the successful implementation of quality programs.

Reliability Engineering activities include:

• Reliability modeling
• Reliability prediction
• Reliability stress analysis (derating)
• Thermal analysis
• Critical items reliability
• Parts Program
• Environmental design criteria

Modern and advanced test equipment is extensively used for evaluating materials and processes, and performing failure analysis of questionable components, materials and processes.

The Environmental Test Laboratories perform environmental tests as specified in MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-202, and reliability demonstration testing according to MIL-STD-781. The laboratories are divided into three principal sections, providing climatic, dynamic, and acoustic testing services. An RFI/EMI facility carries out testing in accordance with MIL-STD-461 and MIL-STD-1275.