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DOES THE SPEC USED FOR CALIBRATION HAVE TO ON THE CERTIFICATE OF CALIBRATION OR JUST THE PROCEDURE OR BOTH? WHAT STANDARD TELLS ME EVERYTHING THAT MUST BE ON A CERTIFICATE OF CALIBRATION?
In my past experience (QS9000, ISO 9001, TS 16949) I have used software to keep records of the 'as found' and 'as left' status of any calibrated gauge. I don't reference any specific procedure number - I have a set of calibration guidelines which have fairly generic statements (e.g. calibrate calipers using gauge block set GB-001). The software contains the values that I compare against, and the limits of accuracy of the gauge. So far, I have not had any complaints or criticism from external and RB auditors.
With that being said, it will depend a LOT on who you are doing this for, and under what conditions/requirements. If I send a gauge out to a 3rd party for calibration, I expect that they will have documented procedures in place which detail how to perform the calibration on the gauge - this may also be a requirement under some standards.
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Ironic... they offer to send instead a PDF file. But... they lock them down so we're not able to add a cover page from our software system.
So we have to obtain, scan, and shred the paper copy. If they would lock down the text and contents, that would be fine. But they lock the whole file, so you can't do anything with it!
Simple.... but brilliant. We'll start asking them if they can do that. Good idea.Have you asked if they would add your cover page to the file?
DOES THE SPEC USED FOR CALIBRATION HAVE TO ON THE CERTIFICATE OF CALIBRATION OR JUST THE PROCEDURE OR BOTH? WHAT STANDARD TELLS ME EVERYTHING THAT MUST BE ON A CERTIFICATE OF CALIBRATION?
... Documents like ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 13485, etc. will have sections on control of monitoring and test equipment, but they don't go into detail as to what they require to be on a calibration record.