AVL’s progression from a small
engineering office to a globally active
corporation posed many challenges.
Overcoming these challenges required
an ever-increasing degree of structure
and organization over the years.
Binding standards, stringent processes
along the entire value chain, and
precise documentation have been
our modus operandi ever since. They
determine the quality of our work
and are key factors for the continued
growth of AVL.
Certified Quality:
Our Integrated
Management System
CORPORATE STRATEGY
e took a huge step in our pursuit of excellence in
1992: This was when the Testing Solution business
unit introduced a quality management system (QMS)
with ISO 9001 certification. This measure was also adopted in
the business units of Engineering and Simulation Solutions in
1997. From this point on, actively controlled, verified, and offi-
cially certified quality became embodied in corporate culture
– and a significant part of the company’s success.
In the years that followed, we systematically continued
along the path we had started out on: In addition to quality
management, we now focused more intensely on environ-
mental management. To integrate an appropriate system
into the operational work environment in a way that was
strategically smart and beneficial, we decided to get in-
volved in the ÖKOPROFIT program run by the city of Graz as
early as the end of the 1990s.
It wasn’t long before this commitment bore its first fruits:
As a Q1 supplier to Ford, our environmental management
system received ISO 14001 certification for the first time in
2002 – proof of our early commitment to taking sustainable
and forward-looking action. Since then, we have been work-
ing on continuously reducing our environmental impact. In
addition, we are striving to become carbon neutral in order
to fulfill our responsibility towards people and the environ-
ment. Particularly in view of the ecological and economic
parameters changing constantly, this has been and remains
our guiding principle to this day.
Consequently, responsibility for the environment and
climate was firmly embedded into the processes at the
headquarters – and successively extended to the entire
AVL family around the world. One of the first subsidiar-
ies to receive ISO 9001 and 14001 certification was AVL
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