Supplier qualification starts with evidence. IRD's quality management system is certified to ISO 9001:2015 for the manufacture of ultra-high precision glass, optical, and ceramic components.
A certificate shows how the management system is assessed. The rest of this page shows how that discipline connects to cell-based production, inspection equipment, controlled work, and delivery.
The management system, the controlled-work registration, and the delivery record are three different forms of evidence. Each is listed here for what it actually is.
The registered scope covers the manufacture of ultra-high precision glass, optical, and ceramic components. The current signed certificate, with registrar, certificate number, and validity dates, is supplied directly for your qualification file.
Registration is not an export authorization. It means controlled programs are manufactured, handled, and stored domestically in Minnesota, with the traceability and handling requirements defense primes are audited against.
IRD has held an on-time delivery rate above 98% for the past decade. It is an operating metric rather than a certification, and it is the one buyers usually ask about second.
Manufacturing operations are organized into cells. A cell has dedicated employees, equipment, and floor space for a customer or product line, and carries the component from raw-material ordering through inspection and shipping.
This keeps responsibility close to the operation instead of treating final inspection as the only safeguard.
Cross-trained employees carry process knowledge through production.
The route is organized around the requirements of the part and program.
The program has an accountable place on the manufacturing floor.
Material, manufacturing, inspection, packaging, and shipping remain connected.
A first article proves the process can hit the number once. These are the controls that decide whether part five hundred still looks like part one — and the evidence you can put in front of a program review.
Honeywell Aerospace recognized IRD with an Exceptional Quality Performance award at zero PPM. That rating comes from a customer's own incoming-inspection data across a production program, not from a sample IRD selected.
Zero PPM — Honeywell AerospaceDedicated employees, equipment, and floor space stay with the program, so the route that produced the approved article is the route that produces the repeat order. Revision control and corrective action sit with the people who run the process.
Cell-based process ownershipComponents are verified on OGP vision systems, Zygo interferometers, surface profilers, and autocollimators before they leave the cell. The acceptance method and the data package are agreed with you before production rather than assembled afterward.
Method agreed with acceptance criteriaIRD has run precision sensor pedestals in the hundreds of thousands per year and precision tubes in volumes approaching half a million per year, holding face flatness to .000004 in and edge chip to .004 in across those runs.
Hundreds of thousands of parts per yearRequirement and schedule changes go to the cell that already owns the part, not into a queue behind a new-customer quote. IRD develops its own equipment, fixturing, and tooling when a revision needs it, and the inspection plan is updated with the change.
Revision handled inside the same cellSafety-stock programs, kitted assemblies, custom packaging, and replenishment schedules are set against your demand plan. Capacity and lead-time risk get raised as a scheduling conversation before they become a missed ship date.
98%+ on-time delivery for ten yearsA part that meets the print but misses the build window still creates a supply problem. Cell-based scheduling, dedicated equipment, and safety-stock programs are what hold that number where it is.
The right method depends on the component and the drawing. This is the metrology available across the two plants; the inspection plan for your part is agreed with the acceptance criteria before production.
Send the print and the requirements that matter—quality system, controlled-work handling, inspection, and schedule.
Litchfield + Alexandria, Minnesota · ISO 9001:2015 quality management system