Quality System
Quality System & Standards
The standards, traceability and management arrangements that govern the work described on this site.
Overview
Calibration performed under this coordination model is completed by laboratories accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017. Certificates are issued under the performing laboratory's accredited scope and document the reference standards, method, and result for each instrument submitted.
Standards Referenced
Work described on this site is performed under ISO/IEC 17025:2017.
Accreditation named anywhere here is the performing laboratory's, and its limits are the limits of that laboratory's published scope. Measurements outside the scope are reported as non-accredited and identified on the certificate rather than quietly included. Each accreditation statement names the laboratory that holds it.
What comes with a quotation is described on the accreditation documentation page.
Metrological Traceability
Measurements are traceable to the International System of Units through the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Each certificate states the reference standards used, the method applied, and the reported measurement uncertainty for the specific parameter measured. As-received and as-left data are both recorded, so a drifting instrument shows up in the record even when it is adjusted back into tolerance before release. Documented procedures govern request review, method selection, result review and release, and a complaints-and-appeals process for any disputed result.
The traceability statement belongs to the measurement, not to the building. On the certificate you will find the reference standard used, its calibration status at the time, and the chain by which it reaches the SI unit. Should that reference later fail its own calibration, the intervening work is reviewed and affected customers are contacted.
Equipment and Maintenance
Equipment categories covered include bridge, gantry and cantilever coordinate measuring machines, portable articulated arms, granite surface plates, gauge blocks, and ring and plug gauges. Each category is calibrated against reference standards appropriate to its measured parameter, under methods documented in the performing laboratory's quality system. An instrument outside the performing laboratory's accredited scope is routed instead to a laboratory whose scope covers it.
Reference equipment is uniquely identified, held under controlled conditions, and recalibrated on a defined interval that is shortened when drift data justifies it. Equipment that is damaged, overloaded, or shown to give suspect results is removed from service and labeled until it has been checked and returned to use in writing.
Management System
The work sits inside a documented management system:
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Controlled documents
Procedures carry issue and revision status.
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Retained records
Retained for a defined period and retrievable against a certificate number.
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Audit and review
Internal audit and management review run on a schedule.
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Corrective action
Nonconforming work and improvement actions are tracked to closure, and their effectiveness is checked afterwards.
Impartiality and Complaints
Risks to impartiality are identified and controlled, and results are reported on their merits regardless of the commercial outcome. Complaints and appeals are a formal input to that system — the process, including the response commitment, is set out on the complaints policy page. How results should and should not be read is covered on the disclaimer page.
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Scope, method statements and traceability detail are supplied with the quotation.