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Understanding Accreditation

Based on insightful answers by Peter Unger Co-Founder – Executive Director ofInternational Quality Excellence in Infrastructure Systems, LLP (https://www.iqeis.com/) and Former CEO-A2LA (https://a2la.org/) / ILAC Chair 2011- 2016 (marked in...

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Concepts of Functional Safety

Functional safety (FS) is a critical safety concept that is applicable across all Global industry sectors. It is fundamental to the enabling of complex technical systems used for safety related...

ISO/IEC 17065 Standard “Conformity assessment Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services”

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ISO/IEC 17065 Standard “Conformity assessment Requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services”

Accreditation Bodies – which are signatory members of the IAF MLA (International Accreditation Forum Multilateral Agreement) – must have their accredited Product Certification Bodies according to the current ISO/IEC 17065...

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Glancing at Technical Regulations in South America

After giving a general description/opinion about Technical Regulations in the first Post, I would like to make a quick review of main Technical Regulations (hereinafter TRs) which are implemented in...

Staying In Compliance

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Staying In Compliance

On average, most medium to large scale laboratory/industrial product manufacturers conduct certification with reasonable due diligence during a products release. Unfortunately, however, there are many companies that let the products...

Leveraging data for improved safety and compliance

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Leveraging data for improved safety and compliance

We live in a world where “data is the new oil” or “data is capital” and many other variations on the theme that data is a valuable commodity. I agree...