This book is about how to design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve a quality calibration system, with all the required documentation, traceability, and known uncertainty for each and every item of test equipment owned and used by any company, large or small. It will benefit companies that want to implement a program and also those that already have one in place.Some industries have tighter requirements than others on how they treat calibration; some are more specific about how their standards are read, while being vague about what is needed to meet calibration. Is there one tried-and-true quality calibration system that every organization can use as a foundation for its personalized program? There certainly is, and The Quality Calibration Handbook describes it. By using the quality calibration system outlined and demonstrated, any organization can put together its own version to meet its specific requirements and/or regulations.
Quality calibration systems are the very foundation for improving research and development (R&D), production, and quality assurance arenas through accurate, reliable, and traceable calibrations of their test equipment. By ensuring the calibration of test equipment used in the production of genetic identity kits used by law enforcement at crime scenes, the guilty are often caught and the innocent exonerated. Calibrated test equipment used in support of the airline and automotive industries helps prevent disasters. At pharmaceutical companies, calibration technicians quietly lay the foundation for quality treatments that help keep us healthy, cure diseases, and sometimes prevent death. This book explains why a quality calibration system can be the difference between life and death, success and failure, and most important to shareholders and boards of directors profit and loss.
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I : Why Calibration Is Critical
Chapter 1 : Preventing the Next Great Train Wreck
Chapter 2 : Requirements and Standards - What They Really Say
Part II : The Basics of a Quality Calibration System
Chapter 3 : The Basics
Chapter 4 : Calibration Procedures
Chapter 5 : Calibration Records
Chapter 6 : It`s Out of Tolerance - Now What?
Chapter 7 : Calibration Standards
Chapter 8 : Traceability
Chapter 9 : Uncertainity
Chapter 10 : Calibration Labels
Part III : Developing a Quality Calibration Program
Chapter 11 : Meeting Your Needs and Requirements
Chapter 12 : Calibration Environment
Chapter 13 : Calibration Scheduling
Chapter 14 : Calibration Software
Chapter 15 : Calibration Intervals
Part IV : Managing a Quality Calibration Program
Chapter 16 : Continuous Process Improvement
Chapter 17 : Ethics.....The Last Frontier
Chapter 18 : Training
Chapter 19 : The Audit
Chapter 20 : Keeping Your Program Ahead of an Ever-Changing World
Glossary
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