Certification and quality
Equipment certification
All our mobile equipment installed in institutions, “Lim*Star, minLim” (hospital, Ehpad, medical homes and care centers), or portable, such as “Wallet” for the home, FMC at the scene of an accident and Hopack, in a hostile environment” are CE certified. “Office”, a fixed reception desk, and “OnBoard”, a vehicle-mounted solution using the same components, are CE-certified by assimilation.
We didn’t have to wait long to adapt to the new provisions that came into force on May 26, 2024. We began submitting our new accreditation dossiers as early as this summer, with the emphasis on coupling formal certification with improved quality assurance. ISO 13485 is our compass.
Quality policy
A lively centenarian with intact intellectual qualities.
Our company has not chosen to allocate its own resources to quality assurance. Within the team, it’s everyone’s business, all the time, at every level. We rely on procedure books and, beyond that, on didactic presentations at monthly staff meetings, given by every member of the team. Is this a playful approach or a leftover academic spirit? Either way, it works.
Our absolute reference is Joseph Juran’s “Quality Control Handbook*” in its 1974 version (3rd Ed.), unencumbered by the marketing extensions of Six Sigma and then Lean that we discover in subsequent versions, unduly attributed to the Master by his disciples, anxious to update this masterpiece at all costs.
Driven by this model, we adopt the sometimes rigid rules of its quality approach without constraint. We are pleased to note the degree of reliability of our equipment, which has led to a reduction in maintenance costs. We strive to keep a critical eye on prevailing dogmatic excesses, sacrificing substance for form.
In this respect, we agree with Tom Peters – another Master of Thinking – in his strong suspicion of fads that assume “quality” to be a definitive corporate achievement, gargling in concepts, neologisms and other epithets invented to define the new, new thing. Quality remains an unattainable goal, because it’s always on the move, and must always be with us.
In fact, the timeless title of the Petersian bible, an incomparable motivational tool focused on action… “In Search of Excellence **”, says it all. In Search of Excellence **”, says it all.
The industrial quality bible
* Quality Control Handbook, Joseph M. Juran, 1951 (First Edition) McGraw-Hill, NY,NY. The third (1974) is the most complete and accurate.
**In Search of Excellence, Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman JR, 1982, Harper, NY,NY
Intellectual property
HOPImedical has a portfolio of 11 active patents, including four granted in the USA.
