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Session Topic: 9B, Electrical Measurements

   

Paper Title: Measurement Assurance Programme for Resistance Parameter

   

Date & Time: THURSDAY, August 8, 2002

 

8:30 - 10:00am PARALLEL SESSIONS - SESSION 9

   

Speaker: Kowsalya Varadan Electronics Test & Development Centre, India

Email: kowsal@etdcb.ernet.in

   

The Proficiency Testing Programme is assuming greater importance in the light of the new standard ISO/IEC 17025 for laboratory accreditation. This is to ensure that the measurements carried out by the laboratories for the same parameter of a physical quantity have close agreement. The laboratories’ satisfactory performance in the Proficiency Testing provides an objective evidence of traceability to a common reference and builds up customers’ confidence in the services provided by the laboratories. Thus satisfactory performance in the Proficiency Testing programme is gaining importance for survival in the competitive environment. The laboratories rendering test and calibration services are now looking for participation in the proficiency testing programs normally organized by the accreditation body or by others. One of the common type of Proficiency Testing for calibration laboratories is through inter-laboratory measurement comparison also termed as Measurement Assurance Programme (MAP)The Standardization Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate, under the Ministry of Information Technology is a premier organization rendering Testing & Calibration services through a network of 22 Laboratories set up at strategic locations all over the country. Further High Precision Measurement set up & specialized test facilities are also available in few of the centers. As such the first MAP programme on resistance measurement was launched by High Precision Calibration Laboratory at Electronics Test & Development Center (ETDC) Bangalore. The details of the process followed in organizing this programme, analysis of the results of the participating labs and evaluation of their performance form the subject matter of this paper.

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