2. Purpose and role of the metrology function in a company
The result of a measurement can generally be considered as technical information communicated to a user. Based on this information, the user will be asked to make a decision:
product acceptance (when measuring characteristics or performance to establish conformity with a specification);
process validation ;
adjustment of a parameter as part of the control of a manufacturing process (slaving) ;
validation of a hypothesis as part of a development ;
environmental protection ;
defining the safety conditions of a product or system.
All these decisions contribute to product or service quality. The validity of the decisions made therefore depends directly on...
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References
Reference works
Standardization
- Dimensional measuring instruments – Inventory – Classification – Guide to choosing an instrument. - E 11-000 - (1990)
- Geometric product specification (GPS) – Verification by measurement of parts and measuring equipment – Part 1: decision rules for proving compliance or non-compliance with the specification (replaces NF E 02-204). - NF EN ISO 14253-1 - (1999)
- Basic standards – International vocabulary of basic...
Organizations
French association for high-precision mechanics (MHP) http://www.mhp-France.com
Comité de normalisation des moyens de production (CNOMO) (French standardization committee for production equipment) http://www.cnomo.com
Union for Standardization...
National metrology laboratories
In 2005, a joint decree by the French Ministries of Industry and Research dissolved the Bureau national de métrologie and transferred the task of overseeing metrology to the LNE, which changed its name to Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais, but kept its acronym LNE. http://www.lne.fr
Alongside LNE, 3 other...
Industrial technical centers
Center technique des industries mécaniques (CETIM) http://www.cetim.fr
Center technique du décolletage (CTDEC) http://www.ctdec.fr
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