Ensuring consistent quality demands specialist in inspection, monitoring and testing.
AIT vendor inspection and surveillance assures compliance and monitors manufacturing processes, while our expediting services help you meet overall project timelines and budgets.
We operate a global operating model supported by cloud-based technology platforms. With specialists available from regional centres around the world, we provide inspection and surveillance on the ground, when and where you need it.
Our experienced and competent quality assurance inspectors can oversee:
- Manufacturing processes
- Inspection and/or testing of materials
- Compliance with company, contractual and regulatory requirements.
We use our customized inspection-reporting coordination assistance programme (CAP) software to monitor clients' projects, with particular emphasis on tracking and reporting our inspection activities. This provides a fast turnaround time for project information, audits, and reports.
What you get:
- Skilled and competent inspectors
- Vendor site visits
- Mill surveillance
- Quality engineering
- Effective reporting, production schedule, and criticality ratings
- Identification of special test and inspection procedures
- Traceability of materials
- Access to AIT technical advisory services
- Qualification of personnel
- Logistics management: desk and field expediting
- Quality assurance and audits
- Manufacturer´s capability certification (MCC)
- Early detection of deviations from standard specifications
- Monitoring of compliance with standards and procedures
- Accurate and timely reporting
Approval of material manufacturers
Manufacturers of metallic and non-metallic materials need to be approved when serving customers seeking AIT classification for their ships or marine products.
To obtain AIT approval, our experts verify your manufacturing processes for compliance with our classification rules and further relevant standards. This is normally done during a test program supervised by a AIT surveyor.
During this verification, manufacturers demonstrate that:
- They have suitable facilities for manufacturing, testing and inspection
- The manufacturing is carried out by qualified personnel
- Constant monitoring of product quality has been established
The businesses we serve:
- Primary production of materials, such as iron, steel, nonferrous metals, resins and fibres for non-metallic components
- Fabrication of products, such as casting, forgings, plates, pipes, tubes, polymers, fibre-reinforced composites and acrylics
- Material processing and distribution, such as material service centres, heat treatment workshops, welding companies and materials suppliers
- We also carry out the assessment of the QMS of material of manufacturers according to the EU Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) [2014/68/EU]
- You benefit from high-quality materials as well as customer trust and confidence when gaining AIT approval.
Your advantages
- Enhanced business opportunities within the maritime industry as the holder of a reputable AIT approval certificate
- A listing of your approval in the list of approved manufacturers available on the AIT website so that potential customers can easily find you
