Measurement Uncertainty.....stirring up dust - MU variance for any given calibration

[JerryStem]

Still ongoing, the assessor is now communicating with A2LA and the voting council members with the issues...

I just emailed a procedure on how we certify an XRF coating thickness gauge to A2LA yesterday. I'm beyond baffled about this now.

I'm pretty thirsty at this point. Especially after all the "we are updating our records and see your cert expired in March" phone calls......

Jerry

 

[JerryStem]

Finally!!!!

FINALLY! We got our Scope and Certificate (at least a PDF) today!! Only took about 6.5 months from the reassessment in early October!

They rearranged the layout slightly, doubled the values (said before was 1 sigma, needed to multiply by two). I told them multiply by 10 I don't care anymore.....

First they said this was with a stipulation that the next full assessment (2007) would look closely at MU and recommend changes. It changed every year anyway so I didn't care.

Then the next email 5 minutes later said they had a staff member in my area that would visit within the next 90 days and check it out. Whatever, still don't care...

I used to think A2LA was a good idea, a good concept. Now.... after all this in the last almost 7 months, all the nitpicking, all the various A2LA staff "opinions" that amount to gospel until they say otherwise..... Just don't care.

We will almost definitely use someone else next time......

Jerry
PS- "Opinions" include the layout of the scope & verbage that after 5 years of being ok by everyone else, this one council member can throw it all out completely because he says so.....