So I'm working on getting ISO 9000 and I'm wondering about how I'm going to deal with calibration.
It's going to be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to keep every gauge in the building calibrated. I'm not even sure whether that's a requirement or not in ISO9000.
So my thought is that my policy will be to allow uncalibrated gauges to exist in an uncalibrated state, but prohibit their use in inspection. Then if work comes in that requires that gauge I can calibrate it at that time. Is this an issue with ISO9000?
I also don't want to put calibration dates on the gauges, just the gauges gauge number, I'll have to check against a master record for the gauge calibration dates and then list those dates on any inspection data/reports generated using that gauge. There's a couple of reasons for this, one of which is to drive the inspector. (usually me), back to the master gauge record to enter a little more information. The other is that again, to me a gauge with a tag that says it's out of calibration is a "violation" for lack of a better word, but I don't want the mere existence of an uncalibrated gauge to be a "violation". I also don't want to run around sticking "for reference" stickers on everything; in part because sometime a year from now a job may come in where I want to calibrate that gauge and use it.
Any thoughts or advice on this?
It's going to be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to keep every gauge in the building calibrated. I'm not even sure whether that's a requirement or not in ISO9000.
So my thought is that my policy will be to allow uncalibrated gauges to exist in an uncalibrated state, but prohibit their use in inspection. Then if work comes in that requires that gauge I can calibrate it at that time. Is this an issue with ISO9000?
I also don't want to put calibration dates on the gauges, just the gauges gauge number, I'll have to check against a master record for the gauge calibration dates and then list those dates on any inspection data/reports generated using that gauge. There's a couple of reasons for this, one of which is to drive the inspector. (usually me), back to the master gauge record to enter a little more information. The other is that again, to me a gauge with a tag that says it's out of calibration is a "violation" for lack of a better word, but I don't want the mere existence of an uncalibrated gauge to be a "violation". I also don't want to run around sticking "for reference" stickers on everything; in part because sometime a year from now a job may come in where I want to calibrate that gauge and use it.
Any thoughts or advice on this?