ANAB Celebrates Growth on World Accreditation Day 2024
In today’s evolving world, our human service systems as well as our technological systems need to be accountable for providing high-quality services. As such, this…
Conformity Assessment – The Next Step After Standards Development
The standardization process is, in effect, a group problem-solving exercise. US voluntary consensus standards are developed to create solutions to problems that have the added…
Types of Conformity Assessment Activities
Activities that are used for conformity assessment include testing, calibration, inspection, audit, assurance, validation, verification, and certification. These conformity assessment activities can result in different…
What Is A Conformity Assessment Body?
The term “conformity assessment body” is a catch-all term to refer to any organization performing a conformity assessment activity. There are more specific and familiar…
Conformity Assessment Bodies and Their Impact on You
Good things happen when standards are fulfilled. A flex-fuel car runs smoothly and efficiently when we fill the tank with E85 fuel that meets a…
Overview of ISO/IEC 17011
ISO/IEC 17011 is an international standard that specifies the requirements for competence, consistent operation, and impartiality of accreditation bodies assessing and accrediting conformity assessment bodies….
The Third Ingredient in Successful Conformity Assessment
What are the required elements, or the ingredients, of “successful” conformity assessment? In this three-part blog series, ANAB explores the three-ingredient recipe needed for successful…
Remote Assessments for Laboratories
What Is a Remote Assessment? ISO/IEC 17011:2017 defines remote assessment as an assessment of the physical location or virtual site of a conformity assessment body…
The Second Ingredient in Successful Conformity Assessment
What are the required elements, or the ingredients, of “successful” conformity assessment? In this three-part blog series, ANAB explores the three-ingredient recipe needed for successful…