How ifm ensures lasting product quality
“High product quality and accurate technical data are unimpeachable values of ifm.”
All employees put this guiding principle from ifm’s corporate philosophy passionately into practice. It manifests itself in the 5-year warranty we offer on all products ifm produces. Does this sound reassuring? Indeed. We are aware of our superior quality assurance that ensures that every product will work the way it should in the long term.
Quality management according to ISO 9001? For us, it is a good starting point for our own standards, quality criteria and inspection processes.
To achieve satisfactory end results, it is crucial to comply with these criteria, processes and requirements continuously from beginning to end. It starts with purchasing, continues with incoming goods inspections, long-term stress tests prior to series production, spot checks in the manufacturing process and ends with the final inspection. Our customers’ feedback is constantly being incorporated into the quality assessment and continuous improvement.
As you can see, you cannot create and assure quality half-heartedly. In addition to the best possible production equipment and a state-of-the-art test laboratory, the human factor also plays a decisive role: Our experience, regular exchange and many years of expertise ensure that every single product you buy from ifm will also convince you. From the first day. For the entire life of the sensor.
The 1000-hour test
To ensure lasting reliability, our sensors are subjected to rigorous preliminary testing
What would the world be like without standards? Less comparable, less reliable, less accurate. That’s right. But, what if you want to be more than comparable, reliable and accurate? Well, in that case, you will set your own bar quite a bit higher than required by general specifications, and, thus, create a sensor that will deliver peak performances in every conceivable and sometimes even inconceivable application. Permanently.
How we prepare our sensors for this? We begin with an intense stress test:
- Every newly developed sensor must first survive 1000 hours in a rollercoaster of temperatures without any damage before it even receives the seal of approval for series production.
- During production, it will be subjected repeatedly to performance tests under regular and extreme conditions.
- We will test its resistance both inline and randomly, but also more excessively, with special machines.
This is how we continuously ensure that our products will successfully fulfil the requirements we impose on them and convince you of their superior properties.