SilTerra receives IATF 16949:2016 automotive certification

SilTerra Malaysia, a pure play wafer foundry in Malaysia announced that it has received the new IATF 16949:2016 Automotive Certification from SGS (Societe Generale de Surveillance), a world inspection, verification, testing and certification company with headquaters located at Geneva, Switzerland. The IATF 16949:2016 was launched in October 2016 to supersede and replace ISO/TS 16949 and it represents an evolution for quality management in the automotive industry.

Manufacturers with IATF 16949 certification are recognized for their ability to meet the demands of automotive manufacturing, promising superior process integration, customer confidence, and product performance.

“We are delighted for achieving this key milestone, which demonstrated SilTerra’s organization management system, manufacturing system and process control system are fully complied to International Automotive Quality Management System. Our fabrication processes are ready to manufacture for automotive products which require stringent quality control with extended reliability assurance.” said Firdaus Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer of SilTerra. “With this accomplishment, we can broaden our customer base aggressively by offering our wafer foundry service to automotive product companies.” he added.

Source: http://www.silterra.com/