As part of a comprehensive zero defect program, ams has developed a highly respected design and manufacturing flow to ensure our products meet the most stringent quality requirements. ams is certified to all relevant automotive and medical standards including:

• ISO/TS 16949:2002 since 2004
• VDA 6.1 since 1999
• ISO/TS 13485:2003 since 2004
  (medical devices)
• ISO 9001:2000 since 2002
• QS 9000 since 1999
• All parts in Pb-free packages since 2005
• Q1 Award by Ford in 1993
• CECC 90000 since 1992
• STACK Technical Approval in 1997
• Environment
• Sony Green Partner since 2005
• EMAS since 1996
• EN ISO 14001 since 1997

The ramp up of automotive products follows a specific “safe-launch” procedure for minimum 100,000 devices, which includes 100% burn-in and tri-temperature test. A process corner lot is mandatory to verify high yield manufacturability.