What does it mean to be ISO 17025 Compliant?
Calibration Laboratories wishing to demonstrate their technical competence can do so via conformity with the international standard ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories’. Conformity with this standard also means that the laboratory generally operates a management system in accordance with the principles of ISO 9001. Alltite is accredited to ISO-17025 through a third party accrediting body, A2LA. The following is a list of ISO 17025 standards and how Alltite’s program responds to that standard:
7.1.5 MONITORING & MEASURING RESOURCES
The organization shall ensure that the resources provided
ISO 9001–2015 COMPLIANT REQUIREMENTS:
ALLTITE IMPLEMENTATION:
a) are suitable for the specific type of monitoring and measurement activities being undertaken;
ISO 17025: 2017 A2LA Accreditation
b) are maintained to ensure their continuing fitness for their purpose.
Calibration intervals dictated by customer; repair history tracked by TorqueWare™
The organization shall retain appropriate documented information as evidence of fitness for purpose of the monitoring and measurement resources.
TorqueWare™ maintains calibration data for 10 years and paperless certificate retrieval by QR codes
7.1.5.2 MEASUREMENT TRACEABILITY
When measurement traceability is a requirement, or is considered by the organization to be an essential part of providing confidence in the validity of measurement results, measuring equipment shall be:
ISO 9001–2015 COMPLIANT REQUIREMENTS:
ALLTITE IMPLEMENTATION:
a) calibrated or verified, or both, at specified intervals, or prior to use, against measurement standards traceable to international or national measurement standards; when no such standards exist, the basis used for calibration or verification shall be retained as documented information;
Intervals are dictated by customer, measurements are NIST traceable
b. identified to determine their status; safeguarded from adjustments, damage or deterioration that would invalidate the calibration status and subsequent measurement results.
TorqueWare™ identifies tooling out of calibration by turning tooling red; Out of Tolerance tooling is rejected by technicians
The organization shall determine if the validity of previous measurement results has been adversely affected when measuring equipment is found to be unfit for its intended purpose and shall take appropriate action as necessary.
Technicians flag tooling found out of tolerance and notify the customer, so the customer can take appropriate action concerning previous measurements as applicable to the customer’s established procedures.
7.6 CONTROL OF MONITORING AND MEASURING EQUIPMENT
The organization shall ensure that the resources provided
ISO 9001–2015 COMPLIANT REQUIREMENTS:
ALLTITE IMPLEMENTATION:
The organization shall document procedures to ensure that monitoring and measurement can be carried out and are carried out in a manner that is consistent with the monitoring and measurement requirements. As necessary to ensure valid results, measuring equipment shall:
Procedures are established by the customer, OEM or industry best practices and are measured to NIST traceable standards; accredited to Alltite’s scope under A2LA and ISO 17025:2017.
a) be calibrated or verified, or both, at specified intervals, or prior to use, against measurement standards traceable to international or national measurement standards: when no such standards exist, the basis used for calibration or verification shall be recorded;
Intervals are dictated by customer, measurements are NIST traceable
b) be adjusted or re-adjusted as necessary: such adjustments or re adjustments shall be recorded
Technicians adjust or re adjust, as required, based on customer procedures, OEM specifications or industry best practices by ISO 17025:2017.
c) have identification to determine its calibration status;
Uses QR labels to identify tooling and status of tooling
d) be safeguarded from adjustments that would invalidate the measurement result;
Managed by the customer during use of all Measuring Tools & Equipment,
e) be protected from damage and deterioration during handling, maintenance and storage.
Onsite arrival by mobile technicians for the vast majority of tooling to safeguard from shipping and handling
