Quality

At May & Scofield we are constantly striving to improve our products and processes to ensure they reach the highest possible standards and compliance to both international legislation and customer requirements

This is achieved by adhering to our on-going IATF16949 & ISO14001 accreditations whilst working towards adding Automotive SPICE & AS9100 to our third party approvals portfolio in-line with our long-term business goals.

The use of an extensive Quality Toolkit including Design for Manufacture (Six Sigma), Zero Defects and World Class Manufacturing, 8D, 3L5W, Fishbone etc. help to drive our continuous improvements.

We also work to the industry best practices from AIAG, IPC and other Industry bodies and apply the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) cycle enable us to work smarter, reduce cycle times and delight our customers.

Quality – Environmental Management Support Systems in place include;

Singlepoint web based data system

• Dashboard - Overall view of systems
• Issue Manager - NCM system for control and monitoring of internal and external NCM
• Document Manager - Electronic document control system

Gatekeeper server based Production Control System

• Unique traceability (up to aerospace standard)
• Process Gate lockout controls
• Operator competence controls
• Auto First Time Yield monitoring
• Product Change Control
• EPA Access personnel monitoring & lock out controls

International Materials Data System (IMDS) web based Automotive Material Compliance database

Registered company since 2006 (Site Code 47874)

Compliance management of;

• End of Vehicle Life Directive
• RoHS
• REACH
• GADSL
• I-point web based Conflict Minerals Compliance Database. Registered company since 2013 (ID 16352). Reporting tool for Conflict Mineral submissions

Environmental Management Support

• LUS for environmental compliance management (legislative and system)

Product Quality

May & Scofield product quality is maintained by compliance to the IATF16949 Product Realisation Process covering both design and manufacture by use of controlled processes and equipment located inside May & Scofield EPA production area. Resulting in the release of high quality product meeting the inspection release requirements of IPC-A-610 Class 1 to 3 as applicable.

(EPA controls based on compliance to ANSI/ESD SS20:20 & BS EN 61340-5-1:2016)

Product release available;

• IATF16949      PPAP level 1 – 5 as per customer defined requirements
• AS9102               Aerospace FAIR
• Insp. Cert.          EN 10204:2004 Inspection Certificate 3.1
• C of C                  General compliance to Product Spec & ELV, RoHS, REACH as applicable.
• E marking          Product Specific: Upon customer request only
• CE marking       Product Specific: Upon customer request only
• VCA Type approval Product Specific: Upon customer request only

Quality – Environmental Training

Quality Department

• IATF16949, VDA6.3 & ISO14001 qualified auditors
• Lead Auditor
• ISO14001 implementation
• AIAG Core Tools
• ESD implementation
• IPC-A-610 Specialist
• Automotive SPICE – HIS Processes implementation

On-site Certified IPC Trainers for;

• IPC-A-610                        Acceptability of Electronic Assemblies Application Specialist
• IPC-7711/IPC-7721         Rework and Repair Application Specialist

Production & Inspectors trained and certified as Specialist in;

• IPC-A-610

Engineering Department

• IATF16949     General QA system and job specific
• ISO14001            General EM system and job specific
• Quality Tools     Job specific e.g. APQP, FMEA, SPC, DOE
  

We constantly strive to meet the highest quality standards in everything that we do. Ensuring our customers' expectations are met and building the foundations for long term, successful relationships between ourselves and our customers.