Ferrari started to work towards quality management system certification in 1994 to encourage innovation and improve both quality processes and performance, and was finally certified by DNV to ISO 9000 in 1996.
Ferrari chose DNV to help them focus, organise, and systematise processes for managing and achieving their business goals. 10 years of continuous improvement is now showing great results.
Streamlining processes
Ferrari’s Vice Managing Director Amedeo Felisa says: “The strategic goal defined in 1996 of implementing a quality system in order to consolidate and improve the production process has been achieved in these ten years. Now the need is to further consolidate and improve the system in the design and development process which was included in the certification in 2003.”
Continuous improvement
The emphasis on improvement and innovation has led Ferrari to be certified to the Environmental Management Systems standard ISO 14001. Ferrari also verifies and reports their annually greenhouse gas emissions according to European Directive on Emissions Trading (EU ETS). In addition Ferrari is certified to ISO 17025 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories. This standard states that if testing and calibration laboratories comply with ISO 17025, you also operate in accordance with ISO 9001.
Ferrari S.p.A
Ferrari is based in Maranello, Italy, and was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari. The company manufactured racing cars and sponsored drivers before moving into production of legal street vehicles in 1946 as Ferrari S.p.A.
Throughout its history Ferrari has been famous for its participation in racing enjoying great success, especially in Formula One. The symbol of the Ferrari race team is a black prancing horse on yellow shield-shaped background, usually with the letters S F for Scuderia Ferrari, and with three stripes of the Italian national colours green-white and red.