Quality and Reliability

Fairchild's quality mission

Our quality mission is to deliver superior multi-market semiconductor products and customer value through innovation, service, and manufacturing excellence.

Fairchild's quality strategy stresses four key areas

• Designing in quality
• Building in quality
• Continuous improvement
• Customer satisfaction

Quality systems

Fairchild Semiconductor establishes quality systems to ensure that its products conform to specified requirements. These systems are documented in the corporate Quality Manual and in other business group and quality manual addenda as appropriate. The defined quality systems are intended to be ISO 9000 compliant (ISO9001:2000) and to meet TS16949:2002 (second edition) requirements for those Fairchild groups and sites that are certified to this international automotive standard. Documented procedures for Fairchild's quality system are implemented and are consistent with the Fairchild Quality Manual (PDF) and other appropriate international standards.

Fairchild implements additional systems and procedures to ensure every product we manufacture meets our rigorous performance standards. These include:

• Contract review
• Design verification
• Document and data control
• Purchasing control
• Material inspection
• Product identification and traceability
• Process control
• Inspection and testing
• Control of non-conforming product
• Corrective and preventive action
• Handling, storage, packaging, preservation and delivery
• Control of quality records
• Internal quality audits
• Training
• After-sale service