What is ISO 17025? And Why are the benefits?

What is ISO 17025? And Why are the benefits?
Today, we will find the best answer for ISO 17025 or ISO / IEC 17025.

To summarize, ISO / IEC 17025 is the standard of the calibration laboratory. ISO/IEC 17025 is the standard of calibration laboratory, which laboratories are calibrated to both theoretical and practical standards to determine whether the instruments are standard and quality according to international standards. The customer will receive their instruments with the certificate of calibration and the instruments can be used accurately and precisely.

The certificate of calibration is describing the standard of the instruments for guarantee the customer that the instruments are still accuracy or “Is there any error?"

For the user who use instrument every day may not be able to check their instrument at the laboratory because they think that the instrument is not necessary and do not have the tools for calibration. Therefore, when we send our instruments to the lab (calibration laboratory) to re-check the quality that the instruments are still accurate or not.

For Suggestion the user should calibrate their instruments in once or twice a year.

ISO 17025 is the standard created between ISO (The International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (The International Electro Technical Commission) for standard of calibration laboratory. Which is an organization responsible for transferring the accuracy from the SI Unit to the measuring instruments in the factory. The international standard ISO / IEC 17025 is a standard on the requirements of the ability of testing and calibration laboratories.

These requirements identify quality systems, administrative requirements, and academic requirements, covering factors affecting the quality of testing and calibration. ISO/IEC 17025 certified laboratories are accepted in the international markets. The word said that “One Standard One Test Accepted Everywhere.”

For this reason, manufacturers who export the products to foreign countries are focus on the test report (Analysis) products from the laboratory. Because, if there is a test report (Analysis) product from the laboratory that is certified according to the international standard ISO / IEC 17025, there is no need to be repeat to test (Analyze) goods in partner countries. As a result, it can reduce the cost of both exporters and importers.

There are three questions that are often asked about calibration?

Q1: How do we know the calibration point?

A1: The auditor or users can determine from the actual use point.

Q2: How do we know when we need to re-calibration the instrument?

A2: The auditor or user will determine the time for calibration. Normally, the time of calibration is once time a year or depending on the requirements of the plant.

Q3: What is the advantage of ISO/IEC 17025 calibration?

A3:  Because of ISO/IEC 17025 is international standard for calibration so, the resolution that identify on certification can guarantee that instruments are standard. Therefore, the advantage of ISO/IEC 17025 calibration are reduced disadvantages in selling products and increasing product reliability. Also, this will help us to access trading in government systems, government agencies or jobs that need a requirement product specification comparison.

Conclusion of calibration

In nowadays, the certificate of the product is a common issue which customers buy the goods, their always need the product with a certificate to guarantee the quality of the goods. But sometime the goods will come up with their guarantee certificate from their manufacturing (Inspection) but that is not the certificate of calibration ISO17025

However, the auditor or user always need the certificate of calibration ISO17025 to guarantee the accurate the goods.

After you reading this article, the readers will have a better understanding and bring useful the answer to prepare instruments or products for calibration.