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5. Maintenance of measuring equipment
5.1 Preamble
To guarantee the quality of measurement results, whether in product testing or manufacturing, it is essential that :
the measuring equipment is maintained in perfect working order;
all metrological characteristics are checked and/or calibrated after corrective maintenance.
These metrological operations must ensure traceability [in the documentary and technical sense to meet the requirements of standards (e.g. NF EN ISO 9001, FD ISO/TS 16949, ISO 14001, NF EN ISO/CEI 17025, NF EN ISO 10012, etc.)].
If metrology is an instrument of quality, maintenance is an indispensable link in the chain.
The maintenance function,...
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Bibliography
Standardization
We provide here only the work carried out by the company's metrology standardization committee:
French Standards Association (Afnor) http://www.afnor.fr
1.French standards
- Basic standards – International Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms in Metrology. - NF X07-001 - 12-94
- Application guide to NF EN ISO 10012 "Measurement management systems – Requirements for measurement...
Organizations
French Accreditation Committee (COFRAC) http://www.cofrac.fr
Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais (LNE) http://www.lne.fr
European cooperation for accreditation (EA) http://www.european-accreditation.org/
International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) http://www.ilac.org/
International Bureau of Weights and Measures http://www.bipm.fr/
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