July 18, 2003—A new standard in the ISO 9000 family provides organizations with a model known as a “measurement management system” to help them achieve product quality and manage risk by ensuring that both their measuring equipment and measurement processes are in control and effective.
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) says the standard will prove useful when customers and their suppliers need to specify product characteristics, as a technical reference underpinning legislation and regulations, and as a tool in assessment and auditing of management systems. It will also be valuable in industrial and research applications with strictly controlled measurement processes.
ISO 10012:2003 can be used by organizations to meet the requirements for measurement in ISO 9001:2000 (quality management systems) and ISO 14001:1996 (environmental management systems)—although its use is not a requirement of either—or it can be implemented independently of these standards.
ISO 10012:2003, Measurement management systems—Requirements for measurement processes and measuring equipment, merges and replaces the earlier ISO 10012-1:1992 and ISO 10012-2:1997, concerning equipment and processes. It costs 89 Swiss francs and is available from ISO national member institutes and from ISO Central Secretariat. To order contact Sonia Rosas, Marketing Services, Tel. +41 22 749 03 36, or e-mail ISO Sales.
