Intercomparisons

Reassure your measurement work by the use of intercomparisons  

Intercomparisons is a tool, a method to assure and compare quality and capabilities at a measurement laboratory. ISO standards as well as accreditation bodies urges laboratories to regurlary participate in intercomparisons to demonstrate their performance. But to be able to use the intercomparison for such quality assurance, of course the intercomprison as well must be of a certain quality and it must be easy to understand the result and final outcome.

 

 

Purpose

The purpose of this day is to explain the principles of intercomparisons to make it possible to use such as a quality tool. Participants will also be given some insight in standards covering this area, such as ISO guide 17043 and ILAC G13.

Target group

Laboratories (with or without ackreditation), assessors, ackredittation bodies, QA personnel

Content

- how to use thebresults from an intercomparison

- how to use/not use the uncertainty in the intercomparison

- What is, and what is the benefit of the ”En-value”

- advantages of correlation analysis

- how to select good instruments ('artefacts')

 

PROGRAMME

08.30 Registration, tea and coffee

09.00 Welcome, introduction (BMTA)

09.30 Working with measurements under accreditation (SP)

10.30 Basic principles and standards for intercomparisons (SP)

11.00 Using reference materials (LGC)

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Examples of intercomparisons and technical details regarding TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT

14.00 Examples of intercomparisons and technical details regarding VOLTAGE and CURRENT MEASUREMENT

15.00 Tea and coffee

15.30 Summary and function of CFI

 - 16.30 approximately

  

CFI, Centre for Intercomparisons is an umbrella organisation to assist calibration- and testing laboratories to secure their measurement claims according to ISO/IEC 17025. 

 

CFI works over a wide area of different measurement quantities, instruments and accuracy levels, and our goal is to assist both measurement laboratories and industrial users. The focus is on traditional "physical" measurements such as mass, electricity, temperature, pressure and similar.

 

The services offered was originally developed in cooperation between the NMI (National Metrology institutes) in the Nordic and Baltic countries but today include users all over Europe.

 

CFI  is administrated by SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.

 

 

 

Course occations

Oct 17, 2013
Last registrationdate:
Oct 3, 2013
Place:
SP - Archimedes, Borås

Course fee

5 400 SEK (VAT not included)

Contact Persons

Kursansvarig
Kursadministratör
Britta Stålhammar

Phone: +46 10 516 54 41

Documents

SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Box 857, SE-501 15 Borås Phone +46 10-516 50 00, E-mail info@sp.se