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    Difference Between ISO-IEC 17025 and ISO 10012

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    ISO 10012 focuses specifically on requirements for measurement processes and equipment as part of an organization's quality management system. It provides guidance but not requirements for certification. ISO 17025 defines requirements for a full quality management system for testing and calibration laboratories that can be accredited as a whole. It addresses factors like customer contracts, purchasing, auditing, and management reviews across the entire system. ISO 10012 addresses only the measurement management elements, while ISO 17025 encompasses all aspects of laboratory management and operations that can be accredited.

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    Difference Between ISO-IEC 17025 and ISO 10012

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    ISO 10012 focuses specifically on requirements for measurement processes and equipment as part of an organization's quality management system. It provides guidance but not requirements for certification. ISO 17025 defines requirements for a full quality management system for testing and calibration laboratories that can be accredited as a whole. It addresses factors like customer contracts, purchasing, auditing, and management reviews across the entire system. ISO 10012 addresses only the measurement management elements, while ISO 17025 encompasses all aspects of laboratory management and operations that can be accredited.

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    ISO 10012 focuses specifically on requirements for measurement processes and equipment as part of an organization's quality management system. It provides guidance but not requirements for certification. ISO 17025 defines requirements for a full quality management system for testing and calibration laboratories that can be accredited as a whole. It addresses factors like customer contracts, purchasing, auditing, and management reviews across the entire system. ISO 10012 addresses only the measurement management elements, while ISO 17025 encompasses all aspects of laboratory management and operations that can be accredited.

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    ISO 10012 focuses specifically on requirements for measurement processes and equipment as part of an organization's quality management system. It provides guidance but not requirements for certification. ISO 17025 defines requirements for a full quality management system for testing and calibration laboratories that can be accredited as a whole. It addresses factors like customer contracts, purchasing, auditing, and management reviews across the entire system. ISO 10012 addresses only the measurement management elements, while ISO 17025 encompasses all aspects of laboratory management and operations that can be accredited.

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    The key takeaways are that ISO 10012 focuses specifically on measurement management systems and provides guidance, while ISO 17025 defines requirements for an entire quality management system that can be accredited.

    ISO 10012 focuses on requirements of the measurement management system as part of an overall quality management system, while ISO 17025 encompasses all aspects of a testing and calibration laboratory including technical and administrative operations.

    ISO 10012 focuses on requirements relevant to a measurement management system and is intended as guidance. It does not imply certification to ISO 9001 even if an organization adheres to its requirements.

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    Difference Between ISO/IEC 17025


    and ISO 10012

    Q: I am updating the
    instrumentation section of a product fabrication specification to
    replace a cancelled military specification (MIL-STD 45662) that
    specified calibration systems requirements. I am looking for an
    industry standard that provides requirements/guidance for
    documentation of our established schedules and procedures for
    all of our measuring and test equipment and measurement
    standards.

    I am looking into ANSI/ISO/ASQ Q10012-2003: Measurement


    management systems — Requirements for measurement
    processes and measuring equipment and ISO/IEC 17025-2005:
    General requirements for the competence of testing and
    calibration laboratories, and I would like guidance on usage and
    application of these standards.

    A: The two standards in question, ISO 10012 and ISO 17025


    have different scopes.

    While the scope of both documents includes language that can


    perhaps cause confusion, what follows is the salient text from
    both that illuminates the difference between the two.

    From the scope of ISO 10012:

    “It specifies the quality management requirements of a


    measurement management system that can be used by an
    organization performing measurements as part of the overall
    management system, and to ensure metrological requirements
    are met.”
    From scope of ISO 17025:

    “This International Standard is for use by laboratories in


    developing their management system for quality,
    administrative and technical operations.”
    ISO 10012 focuses on the requirements of the measurement
    management system. You can consider it a system within the
    quality management system. It defines requirements relevant to
    the measurement management system in language that may
    illustrate interrelations to other parts of an overall quality
    management system.
    ISO 10012 is a guidance document and not intended for
    certification. An organization, for example, could have a quality
    management systems that is certified to ISO 9001:2008. Even if
    the organization chooses to adhere to the requirements of ISO
    10012, the certification to ISO 9001 does not imply certification
    to the requirements of ISO 10012.

    ISO 17025 describes the requirements for a quality management


    system that can be accredited (a process comparable but
    different from certification). It encompasses all aspects of the
    laboratory.

    The competence referred to in the title of the standard relates to


    the competence of the entire system – not just training of
    personnel. It addresses such factors as contracts with
    customers, purchasing, internal auditing, and management
    review of the entire quality management system – ISO 10012
    does not.

    In summary, ISO 10012 is a guidance document that addresses


    one element (namely management of a measurement system) of
    a quality management system. ISO 17025 defines requirements
    for entire quality management system that can be accredited.

    Denise Robitaille
    Vice Chair, U.S. TAG to ISO/TC 176 on Quality Management
    and Assurance

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