6. Equipment maintenance
Equipment maintenance guarantees the availability and good working order of laboratory equipment.
There are two types of maintenance:
corrective maintenance, carried out when equipment breaks down;
preventive maintenance, which is carried out before the equipment breaks down, or periodically to avoid breakdowns.
The frame of reference ISO 17025 -2017 urges laboratories to put in place quality measures for preventive maintenance in order to anticipate metrological drifts.
Example: quality provisions for equipment maintenance
For each piece of equipment requiring...
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