Quality is the bedrock upon which our company will continue to grow and prosper. DEC's operating philosophy is to meet or exceed our customers' requirements on every part we produce. We plan to be the "benchmark leaders" against which our competitors measure their own performance. To support this and other company goals, we plan to meet or exceed the following objectives.

1. Continue to involve all employees in the process of meeting or exceeding the customers' requirements.

2. Provide all employees with the necessary training to make a meaningful contribution to our quality standards and overall performance.

3. Develop and implement the systems and processes necessary to obtain QS-9000 Certification in early 1988, and ISO 14000 certification be the end of 1999.

4. Control all incoming material throughout our internal processes.

5. Develop systems to capture and make available to management the cost of non-conformance,.

6. Vigorously pursue continual improvement.