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About 25 years ago, customers’ requirements for parts listed three conditions: produce a part to the drawing specs, on time and at fair price.

In today’s world, that just isn’t good enough anymore.

Increasingly, more companies are taking a risk-based approach to running their business — wanting to ensure a part process is in control, understanding the yields and what impacts yield, and assurance the part will act the same way if different or other components are switched out of a system.

More and more, this type of risk mitigation as part of quality management services is taking the form of process validation, a method of best practice that has become critical in the delivery of quality parts.

Process validation is a collection and evaluation of data from the process design stage through the production stage, which provides evidence that a process is capable of consistently delivering quality parts.

For Fiberoptics Technology, this process validation includes how the company draws the fiber to the correct size, the assembly for specific products, how rod and tapers are drawn, how laser engraving is accomplished and many more validations depending on the parts.

Through process validation, Fiberoptics Technology can assure its process yields good results every time — and just as important, it is not wasting time, resources, material and human effort by producing scrap and waste.

Externally, this is important because companies are assured Fiberoptics evaluates and minimizes risk to produce a quality product at the lowest possible price.

In all markets, but particularly aerospace, medical and military markets, risk management and process validation are of paramount importance; the result of introducing a defective part into the process are unacceptable.

In fact, process validation is quickly becoming a standard in numerous industries, even though regulatory requirements per standards don’t require it to a certain extent.

As recently as two years ago, Fiberoptics rarely heard the phrase process validation in any of its audits from medical and military customers. Today, every audit and supplier evaluation includes questions regarding the company’s process validation.

To optimize customer’s confidence, and shareholder value, Fiberoptics Technology is committed to integrate process validation as a matter of routine practice to mitigate any risk concerns.