Bustronic Corporation Receives ISO 9001 Certification.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998--Bustronic Corporation, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high performance backplanes, today announced it has received certification of its quality management system to ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001-1994 standard. ISO certification is a procedural review that formally acknowledges the company's commitment to maintaining rigorous industry standards. Bustronic responded to the rising demand for its industry-renowned backplanes by re-evaluating and documenting its quality control program. "Bustronic's ISO Certification is a contract to customers that assures our ongoing commitment to quality and customer satisfaction," said Fred Hirsch, general manager of Bustronic. "ISO Certification validates our capability to deliver reliable, leading-edge technology at this critical time, when we are rapidly gaining share in new markets." In 1997, Bustronic and Arizona Digital debuted the now patented VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. 320 which showcased a groundbreaking "star" design, revolutionizing backplane technology by minimizing noise and transferring data at a rate of 320 Mbyte/second, five times faster then the conventional VME64. This year, Bustronic delivered the VME320/64x, a backplane fully compliant with the VME64x specification while incorporating the VME320 technology. Currently, Bustronic and Arizona Digital are testing the board at unprecedented speeds of 533 mbyte/per second. Demand for the company's products are rising, particularly in data intensive technologies such as computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration and telecommunications. To accommodate the burgeoning customer base, Bustronic has recently ramped-up its manufacturing capabilities, and added an on-line catalog and ordering system to streamline the implementation process for users. The ISO 9001 is one of the ISO 9000 principles established by the International Organization for Standardization International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Organization for determining standards in most technical and nontechnical fields. Founded in Geneva in 1947, its membership includes more than 100 countries. (ISO), a worldwide federation representing approximately 100 countries, which works to facilitate an international set of guidelines for quality management based on common criterion. Upon successful completion of ISO precedents, registration is granted by an independent third party organization, known as a registrar. Founded in 1989, Bustronic Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance backplanes in its Fremont, California For the unincorporated community in Yolo County, California, see . Fremont (IPA: /ˈfriːmɒnt/) is a city in California that was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: facility. Bustronic has a complete line of industry-standard backplanes, including VMEbus, Compact PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. + PCIbus, VME64, and VXIbus. The company's application engineers also develop custom backplane designs from initial concept to finished product. Bustronic is an ELMA ELMA Elastomania (game) ELMA El Malpais National Monument (US National Park Service) ELMA Embedded Loop Mode Antenna Electronic company. ELMA, based in Wetzikon, Switzerland and Fremont, California, is a global leader in electronic enclosures and components with facilities or representation in over 22 countries and is publicly traded on the Swiss Stock Exchange. Bustronic is an executive member of PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. (tm) and can be found on the World Wide Web at: www.bustronic.com.
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