Yes, it does make sense. I am speaking from the position of an Accredited Laboratory. When a lab is accredited, it will receive a certificate of accreditation which states that it is accredited to ISO 17025 (and the accrediting body) and a "Scope of Accreditation". The Scope of Accreditation will list those acitivites (or standards) that the lab is may perform under the accreditation.
During the accreditation process, the lab personnel are evaluated in their knowledge and ability to perform those tests. The Accredited lab is responsible for ascertaining that the test were performed correctly and according to the documented procedure. Thus, in order to assure that the test was performed correctly, the lab will require that the lab personnel perform the test. However, the lab may perform other tests outside of their scope. In doing so, they are not allowed to use the logo of the accrediting body, or indicate that the test report is generated by an accredcited laboratory. If you want to do an Engineering Evaluation and want data only, then it would probably be ok if you ran the test, but that would depend upon the policy of the Lab. There is no requirement that they have to allow you to use their equipment for performing the test. If you want a Final Test Report with all of the applicable accreditations, then you would want the lab's personnel to perform the test. The result would be a test report that would be recognized by many regulatory agencies, depending upon the lab's accreditation and MRA status. John Shinn, P.E. Manager, Lab Operations Sanmina-SCI Homologation Services -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:25 AM To: "EMC-PSTC (E-mail)" < Subject: Accreditation - testing ourselves Hi all, An EMC test lab is accredited according to ISO/IEC 17025. They are also accredited for many tests as the IEC61000-4-series, EN55022 and many other. We have previously done some EMC pre-testing in this lab and we have operated the test equipment ourselves. Now, they won't let us do that with reference to their accreditation status. The test lab personnel have to operate the test equipment. Does it make sense, is there any restriction in the accreditation ? We have always made a clear cut between pre-testing and accredited testing. Best regards Amund Westin ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
