You manufacture products, execute projects, work according to certain processes. How do you make sure they meet all relevant quality standards, requirements and legal obligations? By having them independently and impartially inspected. Inspection can help you reduce risks, control quality, verify quantity, and meet regulatory requirements, no matter the market sector or country you operate in. Kiwa is fully independent and offers a broad range of world-leading inspection services to bring you confidence.
Seeing the invisible and preparing for the unexpected
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Whether mandatory or voluntary, inspections yield essential data you can use to ensure the quality, safety, efficiency and optimal operation of your equipment and your organisation. The resulting information is valuable and provides early warnings for future problems. That way, you can avoid costs or, worse, accidents and emergency breakdowns. Thus, inspections bring confidence: in your employees, production processes and assets, as well as in how you affect your environment. In other words, inspections make the invisible visible and help you prepare for the unexpected.
We inspect practically everything, practically everywhere
Our inspection services include all kinds of examination, measurement, gauging, and comparison of materials or items. We inspect practically everything, from small measuring devices to powerful pressure vessels. We carry out inspections at every level, ranging from design review, installation and manufacturing to modernisation, maintenance and in-service or batch inspections. Thus, we determine the condition of a certain material, an item, a process or a situation, and whether or not it conforms to the applicable or specified requirements, regulations and standards.
Note that Kiwa is a notified organisation for many European directives. It means we are authorised by a national accreditation body to perform inspections in compliance with international standards.
You want your product, installation or a situation to be independently and impartially inspected according to a certain regime - because it's mandatory or because you have your own set of regulations. Kiwa helps you by performing all necessary inspection activities and provide you with results that make sense.
Many inspections are mandatory, others are voluntary and perhaps based on regulations you have drawn up yourself. In the latter case, it's up to you to decide what to have inspected. As we know how to navigate the world of inspections, we help you through the entire process, including communication with other parties involved, such as authorities.
An inspection usually takes place on-site. It may be a visual inspection or involve sensing technologies such as ultrasonic testing. An inspector may be physically present on-site and perform the inspection manually, but in some cases it can also take place remotely using cameras, sensors, drones or other automated devices.
After the inspection, we'll interpret the results for you and provide you with a comprehensive inspection report.
Our high-quality inspection activities have their price. How much you pay depends on the complexity and duration of the inspection process. Naturally, Kiwa will always provide you with an estimate of the time and cost involved. Usually, you can earn back these costs easily as an inspection brings efficiency, confidence and less down-time in general.
We act as a strictly independent third party when we inspect your products, (raw) materials or installations. But we, too, are being 'inspected' ourselves by national and European accreditation institutions. Kiwa is a notified organisation for many European directives. It means we are authorised by a national accreditation body to perform inspections in compliance with international standards. Thus, we close the loop, bringing trust and confidence.