ISO 17025 Accreditation
Coherent’s Wilsonville, Oregon; Dieburg, Germany; and Tokyo, Japan calibration laboratories are fully accredited by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) and recognized internationally by ILAC, APLAC, and IAAC. Certification to ISO 17025 is a formal recognition that a calibration laboratory is using valid and appropriate methods and is competent to carry out specified tests or calibrations.
Please see here for the traceability chart of laser power sensors and meters.
Scope of Accreditation
The scope of accreditation applies to the laser/electrical calibration of nearly all the company’s catalog pyroelectric laser energy sensors, thermopile laser power sensors and meter electronics. within the ANAB website at http://anab.org/accredited-organizations
ISO 17025 governs a laboratory’s quality management system, such as auditing and corrective action processes, and requires adherence to rigorous technical requirements.
Technical Requirements
In terms of technical requirements, ISO/IEC 17025 ensures that a company:
- maintains testing facilities and equipment to specified standards
- ensures protocols are fully documented
- trains workers to an appropriate level of competence
- confirms validity and appropriateness of methods, especially so-called “non-standard” methods such as those used to calibrate laser measurement equipment, which have been developed internally
- uses accepted mathematical methods for calculating results
- verifies that purchased test equipment meets proper requirements and that all equipment used to produce accredited calibrations has itself received ISO 17025 accredited calibrations
- has a traceable path of calibration to independently maintained national or international standards
- provides both as received and outgoing testing data to customers in an approved format
- ensures the calibration certificate meets the requirements of the standard The outcome of all these efforts is that customers can have confidence that a laboratory achieves verifiably correct results and that these results will be reported in an unambiguous manner.
