On July 1st, Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company and Storage Products Company consolidated to form Semiconductor & Storage Products Company.This page describes reliability information of semiconductor products.

Quality Audits

[As of April, 2011]

To ensure that quality assurance activities and related work is carried out as planned and to maintain and improve product quality and reliability, audits are periodically conducted in each phase of planning, development , design and manufacturing by an audit team. Table 1 describes the main quality audit types and content.

Table 1 Audit Types and Content
Type	Target	Auditor	Frequency	Items Checked
Semiconductor Company Internal Audit	Division	Semiconductor Co. QA Dept. Manager Technology Executive Legal Affairs Dept. Manager	Once a year	Quality assurance system Standardization Planning phase control Design phase control Manufacturing, inspection, packaging Other
Division Internal audit	Operations Engineering Dept.	Technology Executive Division QA Dept. Manager	Once a year
ISO 9001 Internal Quality Audit	Staff Sales Engineering Dept. Manufacturing Dept. Production Dept. QA Dept. Other	Audit team (Those who have completed the required training)	Once a year	ISO 9001 applicable items (Regulations, records and implementation status)

QA: Quality Assuranse