Hello,
I work in calibrations for an AS9100 certified manufacturing facility with an ISO 9001 QMS. We are not ISO 17025 accredited.
We are currently doing some in house "calibrations" (sounds like a verification to me) on items like final inspection rulers and some of our homemade measuring devices. The rest is outsourced/sent out to certified labs.
Our quality team is going round debating whether we are allowed to perform these internal calibrations.
My opinion is... No, we are not an accredited calibration lab and do not have trained calibration technicians. We should not be calibrating anything.
But what about an internal verification? Some of this equipment is very homemade.... We have written procedures describing how to calibrate these assets. is this acceptable?
Most of the debate is around the semantics of calibration vs verification and the requirements of our standards we subscribe to.
Can anyone shed some light around this?
I work in calibrations for an AS9100 certified manufacturing facility with an ISO 9001 QMS. We are not ISO 17025 accredited.
We are currently doing some in house "calibrations" (sounds like a verification to me) on items like final inspection rulers and some of our homemade measuring devices. The rest is outsourced/sent out to certified labs.
Our quality team is going round debating whether we are allowed to perform these internal calibrations.
My opinion is... No, we are not an accredited calibration lab and do not have trained calibration technicians. We should not be calibrating anything.
But what about an internal verification? Some of this equipment is very homemade.... We have written procedures describing how to calibrate these assets. is this acceptable?
Most of the debate is around the semantics of calibration vs verification and the requirements of our standards we subscribe to.
Can anyone shed some light around this?