BUSINESS STANDARDS
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Still on the right track
25 Jul 2008
Topics: IRIS
More than 100 years after BSI was founded - based in part on its work on the standardization of tramway rails - the Group continues to work with the railway industry to maintain and improve its services and equipment. BSI does so by providing assessment and certification services against IRIS (International Railway Industry Standard), the quality standard for the railway industry. Developed by UNIFE, the Independent Association of European Railway Industries, and supported by system integrators, equipment manufacturers and operators, IRIS is an internationally recognized standard for the evaluation of railway industry management systems. IRIS is principally for any equipment or component suppliers to the European railway industry. IRIS certification becomes mandatory for many suppliers to the Big Four system integrators in 2009. These companies - Bombardier Transport, Siemens Transport, Alstom and AnsaldoBreda - initiated the development of the IRIS best practice standard.
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