Measurement and Laboratory Systems: A comprehensive Guide delivers what is required by analysts and operators in a laboratory. Right from requirement for accreditation, the book informs about various aspects of measurements, including a chapter on errors and uncertainty evaluation. The result obtained in a laboratory has to be reliable, as many important decisions are based on it. The book tells about everything an operator/ analyst in a laboratory needs to know. It also tells what assessors would like to see in a laboratory during assessment. The various elements of International Standard ISO/IEC 17025 have also been explained beautifully by the author. The author Anuj Bhatnagar has more than quarter century experience as Scientist at Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards body of India. He has hands on experience of testing in laboratories and teaching about topics relevant to labs. He has trained more than a thousand professionals in topics related to laboratories like Laboratory Management Systems, Uncertainty in Measurements, Inter-Laboratory Comparisons and Proficiency Testing etc. Anuj Bhatnagar is a Life Member of the Metrology Society of India.
Preface
Foreword
Part A : About Measurement
Chapter 1A : Accreditation : Why and How
Chapter 2A : Globally Operating System of Measurements
Chapter 3A : The Measurement System
Chapter 4A : Measurements and Errors
Chapter 5A : Uncertainty in Measurement
Chapter 6A : Decision Rules : Conformity Assessment after Application of Measurement Uncertainty
Chapter 7A : Outliers
Chapter 8A : Samples : Sampling, Homogeneity and Stability
Chapter 9A : Inter-Laboratory Comparision/Proficiency Testing
Chapter 10A : Conducting Proficiency Test Programs
Chapter 11A : Outliers Again
Chapter 12A : Development of Methods and Validation
Chapter 13A : Quality of Measurement Results : Criteria for Repeat/Replicate Testing
Part B : Understanding ISO/IEC 17025
Chapter 1B : Introduction
Chapter 2B : Organization and Management
Chapter 3B : Management System
Chapter 4B : Document Control
Chapter 5B : Review of Requests, Tenders and Contracts
Chapter 6B : Subcontracting of Services & Supplies
Chapter 7B : Pruchase Services & Supplies
Chapter 8B : Service to Customers
Chapter 9B : Complaints
Chapter 10B : Control of Nonconforming Testing and/or Calibration Work
Chapter 11B : Improvement
Chapter 12B : Corrective Action
Chapter 13B : Preventive Action
Chapter 14B : Control of Records
Chapter 15B : Interal Audit
Chapter 16B : Management Review
Chapter 17B : Personnel
Chapter 18B : Accommodation and Environmental Conditions
Chapter 19B : Test & Calibration Methods and Method Validation
Chapter 20B : Equipment
Chapter 21B : Measurement Traceability
Chapter 22B : Sampling
Chapter 23B : Handling of Test & Calibration Items
Chapter 24B : Assuring the Quality of Test & Calibration Results
Chapter 25B : Reporting the Results
Appendices
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
Appendix 8
