QUALITY ASSURANCE

HRL'S QUALITY POLICY

HRL Laboratories is committed to continual improvement and to providing quality products and processes for the benefit of our customers. It is essential that what HRL delivers meets the stated requirements and the expectations of our customers.

HRL QUALITY ASSURANCE

Our Quality Assurance department is dedicated to upholding our quality management systems (QMS) that support the innovative research which is fundamental to HRL's mission. We have demonstrated our commitment to customer satisfaction through third-party registration of our Quality Management System to ISO 9001, scoped to the manufacture and testing of semiconductor wafers within the Microfabrication Technology Laboratory (MTL). We also maintain a third-party registration of our AS9100 Quality Management System limited to the fabrication and testing of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

HRL'S QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (QMS)

Our customer focused QMS has been strategically planned to uphold our AS9001 and ISO 9001 certifications scoped to MTL's cleanroom fabrications, while not disrupting the innovation of our research and development programs. This includes supporting our scientist & engineers in our technical laboratories, as well as the administrative departments with quality planning, process control, continual improvement, in delivering solutions for our customers by managing a quality framework that involves:

• Quality planning in alignment with maturing Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL)
• Internal auditing for improvement
• Corrective action program management
• Supplier quality management
• Calibration management
• Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Control management