MIRA Becomes a One-Stop-Shop for OEM Auditing and Accreditation Through New ISO Standard
For more information regarding Functional Safety, please contact us through our enquires form.s strengthening its offer for global OEMs by becoming the first automotive facility in the UK to be certified to deliver an internationally recognised accreditation and certification scheme for functional safety.
The company has been awarded the ISO/IEC 17065 accreditation which enables the certification of products, processes and services against the recommendations of ISO 26262. ISO/IEC 17065 previously existed as a non-ISO standard, known as EN45011.
ISO/IEC 17065 is the main ISO assessment standard used for certifying a product’s performance and is essential to all businesses that certify products for the automotive industry, from software to mechanical parts.
Customers will benefit from MIRA’s family of standards, enabling the auditing and certification of their products in one place, with less hassle.
Haydn Frost, Manager – Business Management Systems at MIRA, commented:
“Our transition to the new standard demonstrates MIRA’s ongoing commitment to ensuring the highest levels of quality across all of our activities. Furthermore, this standard enables us to provide a simple certification process for the customers we audit through our family of standards.
“We are accredited to IEC/ISO17065 to audit our customers’ functional safety systems to the ISO26262 requirements – this enables us to then approve these audited systems, essentially making MIRA a one-stop-shop for OEMs and their auditing and certification needs.”
ISO 26262 is widely accepted in the industry as best practice for the development of electrical and electronic systems in vehicles. Functional safety audits and assessments, against ISO 26262 are carried out by MIRA under the accreditation, giving customers a high level of confidence in the assessment process. Now, with ISO/IEC 17065, customers can leave MIRA’s headquarters in Nuneaton with their audited electrical and electronic systems fully accredited to a recognised certification standard.
Frost added:
“Over the past eight months, we have been working towards transitioning to the new ISO/IEC 17065 standard to ensure we can meet the changing industry demands for vehicle OEMs and companies utilising automotive electrical components. This accreditation will offer customers the benefit of an impartial, professional audit that is recognised internationally as a measure of total quality with the added assurance of a suitably accredited certification process.”
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