Effective audits with logical audit durations!
ACS Certifications is an internationally accredited third-party registrar that specializes in the certification of management systems, with a focus on sustainability. ACS Certifications is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Mannik & Smith Group, an ENR Top 350 engineering firm that has been in business for over 70 years.
At ACS Certifications, we aim to create a future where efficiency is a priority and waste is a thing of the past. ACS Certifications was founded in 2019 to provide organizations with efficient, value-added, and high quality third-party certification services, with a focus on the triple-bottom line.
Our auditing staff has over 50 years of combined experience with quality, environmental and safety management systems, and have been conducting ISO audits internationally since 1998. When working with ACS Certifications, you will receive audits conducted by educated, experienced and courteous professional auditors with strong backgrounds in quality, sustainable practices, regulatory compliance, and effective EH&S controls.
Our auditor pool is made up of Exemplar Global certified Lead Auditors, Certified Quality Auditors (CQA), Professional Engineers (PE), Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (CHMM), etc., all with professional degrees and a passion for a sustainable future that is invaluable in an auditing experience. You’ll find that our Auditors are professional, courteous and seek conformance (not hunt for nonconformance) to the requirements. Our #1 goal is to ensure our clients are getting a great experience and value added audits.
ACS Certifications' roots lie in providing certification services that are affordable and valuable for all businesses. We have structured our quotation process to ensure that our clients receive value-added management system certification services with realistic audit durations, while still meeting the requirements of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Accreditation Service (IAS).
Our client list keeps growing, and now includes; DTE Energy, Cooper-Standard Automotive, Adient, US Farathane, Amsted Automotive Group, Norgren Automotive Solutions, Hi-Lex Corporation, Dakkota, and ARaymond Manufacturing.
There is no need for an audit to be agonizing. ACS Certifications auditors are trained to seek evidence of conformance during an audit, not search for nonconformance! Our philosophy is that a management system works for the benefit of the client and audits serve only the purpose of improving its value.
According to John Havrilla, developer and Director of Operations for ACS Certifications, “ISO standards are very unique, in that they focus on providing organizations with a roadmap for a process based approach to achieving organizational goals. ISO standards aim to improve efficiencies by implementing a sustainable culture and process that align the interests of all stakeholders involved, with the most effective ways to achieve goals.” He adds, “ISO standards help continuously improve processes by breaking down traditional siloes to align the interests of all parties involved with the desired outcomes.”
The International Accreditation Service (IAS) is a multi-disciplinary accreditation body based in North America. As one of the leading accreditation bodies in the United States, IAS is a signatory to the three primary international organizations that form a unified system for evaluating and recognizing competent accreditation bodies worldwide known as the International Accreditation Forum (IAF). These organizations are identified as “cooperations” because they have agreed to cooperate with one another by adhering to a common set of accreditation criteria and to undergo periodic on-site evaluation to determine ongoing compliance with ISO/IEC Standard 17011, General Requirements for Accreditation Bodies Accrediting Certification Body's (CB's). Being a “signatory” means that IAS has been evaluated on-site and at its offices, a sampling of the assessments of its accredited entities have been witnessed by peer experts, and that it has been found to comply with the IAF international requirements.
These organizations agree to recognize the equivalence of accreditation's granted by other signatory member accreditation bodies through a series of Mutual (or Multilateral) Recognition Arrangements (MRAs/MLAs). Once an accreditation body becomes a signatory it is obligated to recognize the certificates or reports issued by CB's accredited by all other signatories within a specified scope.
Effective July 2018, certification to ISO 9001 through third-party audits; unless otherwise specified by the customer, suppliers to the organization shall demonstrate conformity to ISO 9001 by maintaining a third-party certification issued by a certification body bearing the accreditation mark of a recognized IAF MLA (International Accreditation Forum Multilateral Recognition Arrangement) member and where the accreditation body’s main scope includes management system certification to ISO/IEC 17021.