Capability

Quality control and testing

Edatm treats quality as a match between the product and the specification. A batch passes or it does not. The record says which, and on what method.

Quality

A test is named, or it is not claimed

Quality control at Edatm means the property, the method and the record. Descriptive wording on a product page is not a laboratory result. A datasheet is attached when the sheet is on file.

  • Say which property must be certified.
  • Say which method.
  • The result is reported against that method.
Hands working with coloured samples in glass tubes

A useful request

What the laboratory note needs

This is the same standard we ask of ourselves.

  • Sample

    What it represents, and how it was taken.

  • Method

    The standard or the in-house method, named.

  • Report

    Who receives it, and what decision it supports.

When a result is missing

The honest path

  1. 01

    Ask

    A short list of questions rather than a guessed grade.

  2. 02

    Mark

    Descriptive versus measured.

  3. 03

    Wait

    The datasheet appears when it exists.

  4. 04

    Report

    A number is published with the method that produced it.

Compare suppliers on this point

Ask each of them which claims are measured. We will mark ours the same way.

  • Product pages hold the descriptive specification.
  • Enquiry topic: quote.
  • Attach the method if you already have it.

Describe the site, the product and the timescale

We will reply to say whether we can take the work.