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Committed to quality – building reliability into every step

Committed to quality – building reliability into every step

The standards we set at each stage of a customer delivery define how our systems perform in the field. Evac is committed to quality from the first prototype to the final installation.

Quality at Evac begins in the design decisions behind every component we deliver. Close cooperation with our manufacturing partners ensures those decisions translate into products that perform reliably in real-world conditions. Discussions around materials, tolerances and assemblies identify potential risks before production begins.

Tiina Porraskorpi is a Procurement Manager who oversees many of the suppliers behind Evac’s core assemblies. Her work involves constant coordination with manufacturers across Europe and Asia, ensuring that specifications are understood and any deviations are detected early.

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Tiina Porraskorpi, Procurement Manager

Our commitment to quality depends on having suppliers with the same high standards. If something changes in their process, we ask to be informed immediately so we can assess whether it will affect our customers. Quality often comes down to planning.

Evac’s procurement, project management and engineering teams work closely together to validate new processes and components. Documentation is verified and any irregularities trigger internal reviews before equipment moves further into the production chain. By being committed to quality, Evac keeps standards consistent even as supply chains evolve.

Understanding real-world behaviour

Quality is also shaped by how systems behave once they leave the factory. Across Evac’s marine and land-based projects, wastewater systems, vacuum solutions and other equipment face demanding environments – often operating around the clock.

For me, quality means crews can operate our systems easily even when conditions are not ideal.

Gerardo Gómez Millán Product Line Manager for Evac Wet Waste and HydroTreat systems

Handling wet waste is a complex process, so we validate every part of the system. Then we bring lessons from each installation back into the design, so the quality continues to improve. This is in line with our target of building systems that are more robust with every new release.

Interactions with operators who use Evac equipment reveal small but meaningful details – a valve’s rate of wear, the way a control panel is used under pressure, or how service instructions are interpreted. Evac teams conduct regular failure mode analyses, scrutinizing how each component should act under different scenarios.

These observations feed directly into our product roadmaps. Engineering teams use the information to refine materials, adapt layouts or simplify maintenance steps. The aim is to reduce complexity and strengthen reliability across the entire product lifecycle, explains Gómez Millán.

Turning insight into improvement

Data also plays an important role in maintaining quality. Evac’s teams analyze warranty cases to identify patterns that may point to deeper design or material issues. When a recurring failure is detected, the case is escalated to product engineering so any underlying causes can be addressed. In complex marine environments – where quality is determined by compliance, safety and reliability – the cost of mistakes grows exponentially the later an issue is discovered. Evac Vice President for Products and Engineering Alejandro Álvarez Camino captures this principle in simple terms:

If something costs one euro to be done in the office, it costs ten in the factory and one hundred on the ship. From reviewing component drawings to ensuring installation happens on time, quality is determined at every step of the process.

Alejandro Álvarez Camino Vice President for Products and Engineering

When warranty data, operator feedback and early engineering checks inform the same decisions, issues are resolved at source and system reliability strengthens across the entire lifecycle. This is the day-to-day reality behind being committed to quality.

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