OREANDA-NEWS. October 5, 2009. Quality Management System of E4-SibCOTES, a part of E4 Group holding, has been successfully audited for compliance with the International Standard ISO 9001:2000. The certification body is SGS, the Swiss company.
                                                              
The surveillance audit took part on September, 7 – 9. The audit issued the conclusion that E4-SibCOTES operation conforms to the ISO standard requirements. The Company is constantly improving quality of its performance; optimizing schedules for performed projects; enhancing efficiency of time, personnel and financial resources allocation; investing into its personnel professional development and perfecting the Company management system.
 
E4-SibCOTES has developed and introduced the quality management policy. Its essence is commitment of all personnel (including top management) to providing qualitative services; distinct division of rights and obligations; decision-making based on actual data analysis; constant cooperation with the partners for the mutual benefit etc.
 
The Company implements the state-of-the-art software programmes for all its activities: design, engineering analysis, developing of construction, design and estimate documentation.
 
In particular, project management in E4-SibCOTES is MS Project-based, the projects are carried out in the PDMS 3D modeling system developed by AVEVA. Currently, the Company is introducing an engineers’ electronic document management system for design documentation (EEDM).
 
In 2008, E4-SibCOTES won the Russian contest "100 Best Goods of Russia" due to the high quality and competitive advantage of its design services provided for power generating facilities.
 
SibCOTES was first certified to comply with ISO 9001:2000 in 2005. In the autumn 2008, the company was successfully audited and received a new certificate valid till 14.11.2010.