Zertifizierung für die Bahnindustrie IRIS – ISO 22163

The standard owner of ISO 22163:2023 is ISO. The standard includes the requirements of the ISO 9001:2015 standard and additional railway-specific requirements.

The owner of IRIS Certification® Performance Assessment:2023 is UNIFE (Union des Industries Ferroviaires Européennes). These certification rules include all relevant rules regarding the assessment methodology and the certification process.

The following steps are necessary to obtain the IRIS Certification® certificate:

1. Preparation for certification through a telephone or face-to-face information meeting and a pre-audit.
2. Readiness assessment and certification audit at your site. The last day of the certification audit always serves as a reference date for subsequent audits.
3. Documentation of the audit and evaluation of the findings and the management system using the "IRIS Audit Tool" software.
4. After successful certification, you will receive a certificate registered with UNIFE by TÜV NORD CERT with a validity of three years and you will be included in the UNIFE supplier database ("IRIS database").
5. Surveillance audits take place annually, but no later than one month before the reference date, to ensure that you continue to fulfil the requirements of the standard.
6. The recertification audit takes place no later than one month before the reference date three years after certification. The renewed IRIS certificate is issued before the previous IRIS certificate expires.
7. The quality performance levels (bronze, silver, gold) are awarded by the IRIS Management Centre according to the defined criteria of the IRIS Certification® Performance Assessment.

The railway-specific standard for quality management systems is applicable to companies that work for the railway industry in the areas of design and development and/or production and service provision and/or purchasing of products, processes and services (EPPPS) as well as project management and requirements management. Relevant business areas for the railway industry are rail vehicle technology, signalling technology, infrastructure, maintenance, distribution, turnkey units as well as testing and tools.

IRIS stands for International Railway Industry Standard. ISO 22163 emerged from this set of rules.