Aims Management Consultants Services has focused on the quality assurance and quality control of our services and is proud to have successfully accredited by the National Accreditation Board of Laboratories (NABL) against the ISO / IEC 17025 standard “General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories.
ISO/IEC 17025 includes the quality system requirements of ISO 9001 and additional requirements to demonstrate that the laboratory is technically competent and able to produce technically valid data and results.
It is important to distinguish between a laboratory-specific accreditation like ISO 17025, and a general systems certification like the ISO 9000 series. ISO 17025 is based on the systems requirements of ISO 9000, but goes much further into the operations of a laboratory that are critical to its performance of tests. There are some very important differences in critical areas. Examples of these differences are highlighted in areas such as staff competence, test traceability, equipment calibration, audits and presentation of reports. ISO 17025 has extremely specific requirements in these areas whereas in ISO 9000 they are either not addressed or are presented in vague or general terms.
Therefore ISO 17025 accreditation provides the customer with a high level of confidence in the laboratory’s impartiality, technical competence and the technical validity of its results, as opposed to ISO 9000 which is purely a systems certification. Aims Management Consultants Services is a Bureau of Indian Standards and NABL accredited laboratory. NABL approval is from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. NABL provides laboratory accreditation services to laboratories that are performing tests / calibrations in accordance with ISO 17025.
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nice post thanks for sharing this difference of ISO 17025 and ISO 9000.
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