Swift Glass is a family-owned business that makes high quality fabricated glass parts, primarily for the lighting, chemical processing, and diagnostic imaging industries. For example, their parts are used in the medical field in PET and CAT imaging devices, and in high-resolution mammography.
Founded in 1937, the Elmira Heights company provides complete engineering capabilities for all types of glass fabrication. Processes include CNC machining and cutting; ultra-high pressure water jet cutting on hard-to-machine materials such as titanium, nickel alloy, steel composites, quartz and glass. The company provides services for industries that include Biomedical, Appliance, Industrial and Commercial, Optical and Aerospace.
Other specialties include bending, strengthening, decorating and silk screening, drilling, grinding, polishing and tempering for float glass, PYREX® brand glass, VYCOR®, BOROFLOAT® and polished plate glass; polishing of all types of glass including sapphire and super hard ceramics; heat treating of glass as well as chemical strengthening of glass. The company’s diverse capabilities are reflected in its statement that no size or thickness is too large or too small, and no job is too complex or too small.
In recent years, the company underwent an extensive quality improvement program that resulted in achieving ISO:9001-2008 certification. This means that a third-party auditing firm has certified Swift Glass as conforming to internationally accepted quality management standards.
AM&T assisted the company in achieving that certification in a number of ways, including taking the lead in creation of a new quality manual, an expanded collection of work instructions, and a set of procedures designed to insure continuous quality monitoring and improvement. This process eventually involved all employees, both through briefings and through their direct involvement in creating the new processes and documentation.
Once the new system was implemented in daily production, AM&T helped the company develop an audit process to insure that everyone was actually following the updated quality procedures. After the company operated for several months under the new system, an independent “registrar” organization visited the company to perform an extensive compliance assessment. Based on this third-party assessment, Swift Glass was deemed compliant with the ISO 9001:2008 requirements and certified to the standard.
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