News/Events Investors Career Tools My X-FAB Contact Search ABOUT US MARKETS TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING DESIGN SUPPORT Quality through customer orientation QUALITY & EHS POLICIES INTEGRATED QUALITY QUALIFICATION AND RELIABILITY CERTIFICATES FAQ RELATED NEWS Quality Customer-oriented. We focus our efforts on our customers’ needs, goals and expectations. Compliant. We aim for full compliance of our quality management system to the ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards. Value-adding. We balance our efforts according to the benefit and value achievable for our customers and our company. Robust. We always aim for robust solutions for quality assurance and control by means of a risk-based approach. Sustainable. We ensure that our measures to achieve and secure quality are sustainable. Integrated. We understand quality as an ongoing process that covers all the steps needed to develop, realize and maintain our technologies and services along their whole lifecycle. Validated. We base our judgments and decisions on rigorous data analysis and benchmarking. Continually improving. We actively strive for continuous improvement of all our processes. Quality awareness and customer focus are key factors that determine the success of our business. We understand quality as an ongoing process that covers all the steps needed to develop, realize and maintain our technologies and services. Our ultimate goal is to meet or exceed the expectations of our customers through an adequate, stable and continually improving quality performance. MARKUS ACKERMANN, VICE PRESIDENT QUALITY, X-FAB GROUP Quality & EHS policies Quality policy The quality of products and services we provide forms the foundation for our success. It is therefore our policy to deliver products and services ... more EHS policy Our Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) policy is designed to ensure that all activities within the X-FAB Group are performed in a manner that considers the health and safety of our employees, ... more Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) We are firmly committed to social responsibility and have signed the ZVEI Code of Conduct for Corporate Social Responsibility. ... more Material declarations In line with our EHS policy, we are working continuously on reducing our environmental impact through legal compliances. Our policy stipulates that all purchased materials must satisfy ... more Integrated quality Integrated quality concept According to ISO 9000, Quality is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics of an object fulfills requirements. At X-FAB, we understand quality as an ongoing process that covers all the steps needed to develop, realize and maintain our technologies and services along their whole lifecycle. This process is tailored to the following key results: Robust design: Built-in robustness and its validation are essential objectives of technology development at X-FAB. Beyond this, we actively support our customers in achieving these objectives for their products as well. Reliable technology: Our technologies are created and qualified according to stringent criteria that cover wide-ranging application requirements in terms of performance, operating conditions and lifetime. Quality control: The achievement of quality objectives in manufacturing needs to be measurable in order to generate quantitative assessments as a basis for highly effective and efficient quality control. Manufacturing excellence: We control and continually improve both productivity and quality in order to achieve excellence in manufacturing with highest quality standards. Advanced product quality planning Our technology development procedure is in line with the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process. It includes different stages and release levels with defined quality criteria. ... more Risk mitigation and safe launch Along all stages of our technology development projects, we focus on early risk identification and mitigation, supported by a comprehensive application of the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis ... more Quality assurance and monitoring Already during the development of new technologies, based on the identified risks and determined risk mitigation strategies, we define, validate and implement appropriate measures ... more Failure analysis and problem solving To ensure fast learning from any quality failures that may occur in the development, qualification or manufacturing phase of a technology, comprehensive failure analytics capabilities are in place ... more Continual improvement and zero defects Based on data and information collected during technology development and manufacturing as well as feedback from our customers, we achieve a steady enhancement of our competencies, capabilities and ... more Process change management To enable continual improvements and extensions of our manufacturing capacities and capabilities and to secure the longevity of our manufacturing processes ... more Multi-site manufacturing and consistent quality management We have implemented and maintain a fully consistent quality management system across all our manufacturing sites (certified according to the IATF 16949 standard) ... more Qualification and reliability Reliability qualification procedure Reliability: Probability that a device will function without failure over a specified time period or amount of usage under stated conditions. Qualification: Process of demonstrating that an entity is capable of meeting or exceeding the specified requirements (JEDEC JEP148). Reliability qualification: Process of demonstrating that an entity is capable of meeting or exceeding the specified reliability requirements, usually by tests using accelerating conditions and proven models (JEDEC JEP148). Process and device reliability characterization A comprehensive characterization of the reliability performance of technology elements, such as primitive devices, physical layers and functional IP, is part of our development procedure and provides ... more Design for reliability and robustness High manufacturability, reliability and robustness of our customers’ products are important to meet demanding quality objectives stably over a long period of time. ... more Reliability test methods The methods we use in Reliability Qualification Testing (RQT) and Reliability Conformance Testing (RCT) follow industry standards and are supplemented by internal know-how. ... more Robustness validation Our technology qualification procedure goes beyond the demonstration of minimum reliability requirements, following the Robustness Validation approach, which is based on knowledge about reliability ... more More than 25 years of track record as automotive foundry. Certificates X-FAB GMBH (Erfurt) X-FAB Dresden X-FAB Texas X-FAB Sarawak X-FAB France X-FAB MEMS Foundry GmbH X-FAB MEMS Foundry Itzehoe Quality management systems for automotive suppliers ISO/TS 16949 - First certification Certified in 2003-11 Certified in 2004-08 Certified in 2003-11 Certified in 2007-09 Certified in 2016-10 Certified in 2014-09 Certified in 2015-03 Current certificate* IATF 16949:2016 Certificate 2021-01 Certificate 2020-09 Certificate 2021-04 Certificate 2021-01 Certificate 2021-06 Certificate 2020-12 Certificate 2021-02 Environmental management system ISO 14001 - First certification Certified in 1996-12 Certified in 2003-08 Certified in 2004-11 Certified in 2004-06 Certified in 1998-09 Certified in 2014-09 Certified in 2017-01 Current certificate ISO 14001:2015 Certificate 2021-01 Certificate 2021-01 Certificate 2021-01 Certificate 2021-01 Certificate 2019-11 Certificate 2021-01 Certificate 2020-03 Energy management system Current certificate ISO 50001:2018 Certificate 2020-07 Certificate 2020-05 n/a n/a Certificate 2019-10 Certificate 2020-07 n/a Quality management system for medical suppliers ISO 13485 Declaration of Compliance to ISO 13485 Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) certificates: X-FAB GMBH (Erfurt) | X-FAB Dresden | X-FAB MEMS Foundry GmbH | X-FAB MEMS Foundry Itzehoe * The ISO/TS 16949 and IATF 16949 standard include the ISO 9001 standard. X-FAB is therefore automatically ISO 9001-compliant, and no additional certificate is required. FAQ Which kinds of technical support can I get from X-FAB as a customer? Our customers’ needs, goals and expectations are in the focus of our quality process. We are therefore highly interested in cooperating with our customers ... more How can I access quality-related data and information? Our customers can access quality-related data and information through our customer portal my X-FAB. We provide further quality-related data ... more What can I expect from X-FAB in case of quality-related complaints or issues? We have established a generic flow for handling quality issues or complaints reported by our customers. Following the 8 Disciplines Problem Solving (8D) approach ... more As a customer, can I perform an audit at X-FAB to assess the performance of my supplier? Our customers are invited to audit our manufacturing sites in preparation of new product installations and to regularly assess the fab performance and fulfillment of their requirements. ... more Related news Jul 25, 2019 X-FAB Brings 180nm Automotive-Qualified Semiconductor Process to its French Manufacturing Site Expands capacity for high-voltage XH018 technology and enables dual sourcing READ MORE Feb 08, 2018 X-FAB Becomes First Semiconductor Foundry to Achieve IATF 16949 Automotive Quality Certification Another major accomplishment in 25 years of producing high reliability ICs for the global automobile business READ MORE Jan 05, 2015 X-FAB committed to support its customers in fulfilling the medical quality standard ISO 13485 The international standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system whereby an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and… READ MORE MORE NEWS Contact For more information, please contact us: NAME* E-MAIL* MESSAGE* By submitting the form you agree to our privacy policy. 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