The history of T?V Süddeutsche Group can be traced back to the first Steam Boiler Inspection Association, a private regulatory body founded in Mannheim in 1866 by steam boiler operators. The regulator's purpose is to "protect people, the environment and property from risks associated with related technologies". In the following years, similar associations sprang up in all industrial centers of Germany, in Baden, Bavaria, Hesse and Saxony. For example, in Bavaria, the Bayerischer Dampfkessel-Revisions-Verein was founded.
These associations (after mergers, gradually evolved into subsidiaries of today's T?V Süddeutsche Group) have gradually expanded their business areas in an environment of technological development. The added areas include electricity, automobiles, fire safety, Power stations, passenger lifts, ropeways, nuclear power plants, environmental protection, product safety and management systems.
In the past few decades, the internationalization process of T?V Süd has been accelerating in the European single market, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Today, T?V Süd is a global technology services provider. T?V Süd provides standards and directives backed by leading quality and safety marks. For example, the US Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) mark, as well as the European Community's CE mark and GS mark. T?V Süd also issues TUV Süd product certification marks based on international certification mark requirements. More than 15 million vehicles are inspected by T?V Süd every year.
T?V Süd’s testing and product certification services include: · Aerospace
· Automotive and Transportation
· Consumer and retail products
· Healthcare and medical devices
· Infrastructure
· Manufacturing and industrial machinery
· Power and energy
· Rail transit services
· Real estate
· Sports, leisure and entertainment facilities
· Communication products and information technology
· Energy efficiency T ?V Süddeutsche Group is an international certification organization that provides professional management system certification services. T?V Süd has mastered professional international management system auditing and certification skills, and conducts testing and certification in aspects such as quality, environment, energy, safety, risk, health, education, business continuity and social responsibility. Areas covered include automotive, railways, aviation, mechanical engineering, information technology, banking, finance and health services.
T?V Süd’s audit and system certification services include:
· AS/EN9100 - Quality Management System for the Aviation Industry
· BSCI - Business Social Responsibility Code
· CoC - Code of Conduct
· ESD S20.20 - Electrostatic Discharge Handling Control Process
· FSC - Forest Certification
· IECQ QC 080000 Hazardous Substances Process Management System
· ISO 9001 - Quality Management System
· ISO 13485 - Medical Device Quality Management System
· ISO 14001 - Environmental Management System
· ISO 22716 - International Guide to Good Manufacturing Practice for Cosmetics
· ISO 27001 - Information Security Management System
· ISO 50001 - Energy Management System< /p>
· IRIS (International Railway Industry Standard) - Rail Transit Industry Quality Management System
· OHSAS 18001 - Occupational Health and Safety Management System
· SA8000?- Social Responsibility Management System
· TL 9000 - Quality Management System Certification for the Telecommunications Industry
· TS 16949 / VDA - Specification for Quality Management Systems in the Automotive Industry
· ETI - Ethical Trading ETI
· Second-party audit T?V Süddeutsche Group's audit and inspection services include infrastructure and project acceptance, equipment installation inspection, health inspection and social compliance audit, as well as pre- and post-shipment inspection and Retail store mystery shopping.
T?V Süd’s factory inspection services include: · Aerospace
· Automobiles and Motor Vehicles
· Chemicals, Petroleum and Natural Gas
· Consumer Products & Retail
· Health Care
· Infrastructure
· Manufacturing & Industrial Machinery
· Power & Energy
· Real Estate
· Sports, Leisure and Entertainment
· Corporate Social Responsibility
· Energy Efficiency T?V Süd's expertise Across the fields of safety, quality, environmental protection and utilization, we help organizations in various industries provide end-to-end consulting services, from reviewing building and project construction to energy management consulting and business process optimization. T?V Süd also provides market-specific Consultation and suggestions on entry issues.
T?V Süd’s logo and certification mark adopt a three-dimensional octagonal appearance and are easy to recognize. Our T?V Süd logo originated from our certification mark design, and every element of it represents our strong German heritage.
T?V (Technischer ?berwachungs-Verein, meaning Technical Inspection Association): English expression is Technical Inspection Association.
S?D: means southern Germany, representing the southern region of Germany. The T?V Süddeutsche Group was formed by the merger of the T?V of the southern German states (i.e. Bavaria, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and the Free State of Saxony)
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§ The hexagonal mark derived from car inspections, well known in Germany and associated with safety and quality.
§ Secondly, 8 is considered a lucky number
§ In 1999, Product Service and Industry Service were the first to use the octagon as a certification mark.
§ Other branches and business units quickly followed suit, and eventually the octagonal shape became a company-wide mandatory certification mark.
§ Due to high recognition and acceptance from customers, the octagon became the company logo of T?V Süd in 2004.
3D blue border:
§ Blue is the representative color of Bavaria.
§ The 3D effect highlights T?V Süd’s premium status as a value-added partner. T?V Süd brings greater security and increases economic value.
As a process partner with extensive industry knowledge, T?V Süd's expert team provides early information and ongoing guidance, thereby optimizing technologies, systems and expertise.
“Authoritative certification, creating value” is the core concept behind the services provided by T?V Süd. This sentence explains the essence of mission.
The T?V brand is the iconic feature of the German T?V institution and is only allowed to be used by the institution and its affiliated institutions, that is, it cannot be used in metaphorical political or other debate activities, such as " "Education T?V", or donation "T?V" is used to refer to the general quality testing of education, charity and other organizations. The T?V brand has been registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the EU Trademark Integration Authority for the Internal Market (OHIM) and many foreign trademark offices, thus enjoying legal protection in almost every country in the world.
T?V Süddeutsche Group has made a more special definition of this brand and added new characteristics to the group itself. "Authoritative certification, creating value." For T?V Süd's customers around the world, this brand and the blue octagon already represent higher credibility and increased economic value.