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…
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…
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…
The First 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…
Information Technology and Conformity Assessment
Information technology facilitates conformity assessment in many ways. Accreditation bodies leverage information technology to assist in the accreditation process, and conformity assessment bodies utilize IT…
Completing Accreditation Checklists
Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of why an assessment is being performed in the first place. And the overall assessment is the context of…
ISO/IEC 17000:2020 Conformity Assessment Vocabulary Released
ISO/IEC 17000, the international standard for vocabulary and general principles related to conformity assessment, has been revised. Like the previous iteration of this standard, ISO/IEC…
Impact of the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Transition, Part 2
This is the second in a series of posts about ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, the global reference…