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Four steps

1. Contact and evaluation

You tell us about your company: production volume, machinery, test equipment, design capability and safety record. We score it.

2. Agreement

A written partnership agreement covering scope, territory, brand use, training, quality and audits, certificate validity, and term.

3. Training and set-up

Training for your design staff and a product and software introduction. Training comes before the partnership starts.

4. Start

The partnership begins and we review the project list with you every week.

How we assess

Twenty criteria in eight areas. Each is marked Must have (weight 3), Important (weight 2) or Should have (weight 1), and each names how we check it: payment record, references, training records or a shop-floor visit.

  • General, finance and compliance
  • Market
  • Business planning
  • Portfolio share
  • Organisation and skills
  • Sales and engineering
  • Shop floor
  • After-sales

Scoring

  • Score times weight, added up, shown as a percentage of the maximum.
  • 50% is the minimum.
  • 75% is a good entry level.
  • 100% is top performance.

The certificate states the largest rating you may build to.

Introduce your company

Do not enter bank numbers or passwords.

This is a plan. Programme terms are confirmed in writing before anything starts.