Laboratory Testing Promotes New Director of Quality

This new position has been created to oversee the expanding operations of quality assurance and certification due to the metrology, inspection and calibration laboratory’s continued growth in sales, services and number of employees.

Frank Peszka of Erdenheim, PA has been promoted to the newly created position of Director of Quality at Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI; Hatfield, PA). He most recently held the position of quality assurance manager for the past six years. During this time LTI has expanded its scope of testing and calibration accreditations with A2LA and PRI/Nadcap and company approvals to comply with the rigorous requirements of its customers in the aerospace, nuclear, medical and automotive industries.

Director of Quality is a new position at LTI, created to oversee the expanding operations of the Quality Assurance and Certification Department due to continued growth in sales, services and number of employees.

In his new position, Peszka will continue to implement and maintain the quality management system, oversee the preparation of certified test reports and certificates of calibration, and administer a new program designed to manage industry specifications for testing and calibration. Emphasis will be placed on continuing improvement projects and employee training to achieve the goal of Error Free Results On Time.

Peszka joined LTI in October 2004 as a quality assurance specialist with over 30 years of experience as a quality assurance professional. He was promoted to quality assurance manager in February 2006.

LTI is an independent materials testing and metrology laboratory in business since 1984. The range of services offered includes mechanical testing, metallurgical testing, chemical analysis, corrosion testing, nondestructive testing, specimen machining, failure analysis, dimensional inspection and calibration services with results documented in a Certified Test Report or Calibration Certificate.

The laboratory specializes in metal and polymer testing, but also analyzes powdered metals, ores, ferroalloys, composites and ceramics. LTI holds PRI/Nadcap accreditations in materials and nondestructive testing, and A2LA accreditations to ANS/ISO/IEC 17025 in materials testing, dimensional inspection and calibration services, which complies with ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.

Test specimens are machined on-site and material investigations are conducted to determine the root cause of material failures. LTI Metrology, a division of Laboratory Testing Inc., provides dimensional inspection and NIST-traceable calibration services for measuring hand tools, masters and a wide-range of measuring instruments and equipment. On-site calibration, repairs, new instruments and replacement parts are offered. www.labtesting.com