Accredited calibration

• The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) has accredited NI Calibration Services Austin to one of the highest international calibration standards in the industry, ISO/IEC 17025:2005.
• NI now offers 17025 calibration services for OEMs and other organizations seeking to maintain compliance with the strictest governmental, medical, transportation and electronics regulations.
• The new calibration service offering is ideal for companies standardizing their automated test and measurement systems on PXI modular instrumentation, which provides some of the most advanced technology for addressing the latest engineering challenges.

The Calibration Services Austin headquarters of National Instruments has been accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) to provide calibration for ISO/IEC 17025:2005, one of the most rigorous international calibration standards in the industry. The accreditation recognizes NI’s commitment to excellence in quality and customer service and extends the company’s investment in PXI-based test and measurement offerings. The company’s new ISO 17025 accredited calibration service is ideal for the ever-growing field of engineers standardizing their automated test systems on the PXI modular instrumentation platform, which offers some of the most advanced technology possible to address demanding engineering challenges.

For companies subject to government regulation – including OEMs that develop medical devices, transportation products and electronics – as well as multinational corporations looking for a single quality benchmark, ISO 17025 provides the most highly recognized global standard for calibration. The ISO 17025 accredited calibration service, which also complies with the ANSI/NCSL Z540-1-1994 standard, helps any organization that needs its PXI instrumentation certified for compliance with rigorous quality standards.

Metrology accreditation renewed

One of the first labs to achieve ANSI/NCSL Z540.3-2006

Keithley Instruments has announced that its Metrology Services department has achieved renewal of its ISO 17025 accreditation, having successfully completed a rigorous three-and-a-half-day ISO 17025 re-accreditation assessment by A2LA (American Association for Laboratory Accreditation). As part of the A2LA assessment, Keithley has also been successfully accredited to the new ANSI/NCSL Z540.3-2006 American standard.

The ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation recognizes that Keithley's Metrology Services meet the requirements of this international standard, demonstrating its technical competence to carry out the very high-level calibrations that are essential for many of the company's sensitive instruments. Customers can be assured that their instruments are being calibrated to the highest industry
standards and will provide consistent, quality measurements. Routine calibrations help avoid downtime and prevent costly quality problems.

Helga Alexander, Keithley's Metrology Services manager, noted, "Given that ISO 17025 remains the single most important metrology standard for test and measurement instruments, Keithley's accreditation to this standard ensures that customers can rely on us as an equipment and calibration vendor. In addition to getting our existing technical scope reaffirmed, which exhibits some of the best resistance and low current measurement uncertainties in the country, we were able to add a simulated temperature parameter to our technical scope of accreditation. We are also among the first to become successfully accredited to the new ANSI/NCSL Z540.3-2006 American standard."

Alexander noted that adding this new American standard to the company's list of accreditations is particularly important for a company servicing the government and military sectors.