Accreditation

ISO 17025 Accreditation

ISO/IEC 17025 standard is an international standard that specifies the general requirements for the competence of laboratories to perform testing and calibration.

It covers both the technical competence of the laboratory and the management system and ensures that laboratories deliver reliable and accurate results.

Here you can find the link to our official accreditation:

What is an ISO17025 Accreditation?

ISO 17025 is a formal recognition by an independent, official body. We are audited annually for this by BELAC (the “Belgian Accreditation Body”), the counterpart of DakkS in Germany or RvA in the Netherlands.
 
This ISO 17025 Accreditation goes far beyond the more well-known ISO 9001 certificate, which is solely focused on customer satisfaction and process management.
  • ISO 17025 assesses not only the quality management system but also the technical competence to deliver reliable measurement results.
  • ISO 17025 requires that methods and equipment are validated, and that specific measurement uncertainties are calculated.
VDI artefact optical scanner

Maintenance, calibration and verification

In practice, this means that all our measurement systems follow a strict routine, not only for maintenance and calibration but also for regular verification using externally calibrated control artifacts. This ensures that our results are always reliable and traceable.
 
Several times a month, intra-laboratory comparisons and internal checks are also performed to monitor the competence of our measurement technicians and the reproducibility of our processes.
Multi-Feature-Check
Dumbell artefact

Validation study

Furthermore, we have conducted a very extensive validation study to map the measurement uncertainty of our results. For this, we used, among other things, various artifacts that were calibrated by an independently accredited calibration laboratory.

Various scanningsprays

Analysis scanningspray

As part of this validation study, we also analyzed the thickness of various scanning sprays and factored them into our calculations.

Measurement uncertainty

The final uncertainty in our results depends on the following factors:
  • Measurement machine
    • Optical scanner or CT scanner
  • Measurement volume or Size of the product being measured
  • Type of spray
    • no spray
    • airbrush
    • semi-permanent
    • Self-evaporating
  • Type of dimension divided into 5 carefully chosen categories:
    • dimension of a fitted geometry
    • distance between two fitted geometries
    • Two-sided dimension directly measured on the mesh
      or a form and position tolerance (GD&T)
    • One-sided dimension directly measured on the mesh
    • angular measurements

Our measurement uncertainties can be considered as a general guideline, but they are not all-encompassing, as the product itself ultimately plays a significant role.

Exact measurement uncertainties

If it is important for your specific application to calculate the exact measurement uncertainties for your product, this can always be worked out in a separate study by us.

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