Quality Assurance

Control Devices has employed the automotive field’s Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) criteria in its day-to-day quality assurance operations for our entire product line. APQP has three specific phases to ensure product quality: development, industrialization, and product launch, and it is through this process that we manufacture, assemble, inspect and ship our nozzles, valves, float valves and condensate traps.

Our quality assurance laboratory is fully staffed and equipped with precision measurement equipment, a calibration system, a Rockwell hardness tester, camera microscope capabilities and a surface finish analyzer and comparator; operated by employees with decades of combined quality assurance experience.

As a result of this quality commitment, we maintain ISO 9001:2015 certified by DQS Inc., along with the following industry-specific certifications:

• ISO 9001: 2015 (Control Devices, LLC)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers for Safety Valves (ASME)
• The National Board of Boiler & Pressure Vessel (NB)
• NSF International (RMC)
• Pressure Equipment Directive for Safety Valves (Module B)
• Pressure Equipment Directive for Safety Valves (Module D)
• ISO 13485: 2016 (Control Devices, LLC – Carr Lane)

It is a top priority at Control Devices to maintain a high level of quality that exceeds all industry standards, and we work hard to communicate and reinforce this commitment daily to all of our employees.