PT Inti given ISO-9001 certificate
JAKARTA (JP): The state-owned telecommunications equipment producer PT Industri Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Inti) received a ISO-9001 certificate for its digital telephone exchange products yesterday in Bandung, West Java.
The ISO-9001 certificate was awarded by PT Kema Registered Quality Indonesia, an affiliate of the Netherlands-based Kema Registered Quality Nederland BV.
Inti's president, Arsyad Ismael, said that the ISO-9001 was awarded for the company's STDI-K Prima small digital telephone exchange.
The STDI-K Prima, wholly designed by Inti, is a small, modular and compact switching system. Each STDI-K Prima has a flexible range of line units, which lies between 50 and 200 line units per subsystem. The capacity of the system can be expanded up to 200,000 line units through interworking.
Being a local product, STDI-K Prima is suitable for low- density population areas, blank spots in metropolitan areas, military areas, hospitals, condominiums and housing areas.
Last November, Inti also received an ISO-9002 certificate from Kema for its digital telephone exchange production lines, assembled in cooperation with Siemens of Germany.
"The ISO-9002 comprised assessment on 20 elements, including a product test, assembling and other subjects related with production lines and after-sales service," Arsyad said during yesterday's ceremony, attended by a deputy chairman of the Agency for the Management of Strategic Industries (BPIS), Sutadi Suparlan.
"The ISO-9001 certificate is more valuable because it includes the elements of design and product development," he said.
Inti is one of the 10 firms supervised by BPIS, which is chaired by State Minister of Research and Technology B.J. Habibie.
According to Arsyad, Inti must retain its management after the awarding of the ISO-9001 certificate, because Kema will conduct a reevaluation and surveillance next December.
He said that after gaining the ISO-9002 and ISO-9001 certificates, Inti plans to gain a ISO-14000 certificate on environment in 1997. (icn)