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articles:nist_traceability [2020/01/23 09:47] – [Risks] rrandallarticles:nist_traceability [2020/01/23 10:02] – [Traceability to Organizations, rather than SI Units] rrandall
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 ===== Traceability to Organizations, rather than SI Units ===== ===== Traceability to Organizations, rather than SI Units =====
  
-[[https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/6200.4G.pdf|FAA National Policy - Order 6200.4G]]" (dated 03/08/10) states:+The US Federal Aviation Administration, [[https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/6200.4G.pdf|FAA National Policy - Order 6200.4G]]" (dated 03/08/10) states:
  
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 NIST, for example, is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. When the US Government was "shut down" during 1995, 2013, 2018, and 2019, NIST operations were suspended. So if your company had measurement standards at NIST awaiting calibration, or if you outsourced calibration to a metrology lab who had its measurement standards at NIST, then the length of time associated with the government "shutdown" was added to the delay in receiving those instruments. These government "shutdowns" create a "ripple effect" throughout industry. NIST, for example, is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. When the US Government was "shut down" during 1995, 2013, 2018, and 2019, NIST operations were suspended. So if your company had measurement standards at NIST awaiting calibration, or if you outsourced calibration to a metrology lab who had its measurement standards at NIST, then the length of time associated with the government "shutdown" was added to the delay in receiving those instruments. These government "shutdowns" create a "ripple effect" throughout industry.
  
-To avoid this, standards writing bodies and regulatory agencies should gain a better understanding of "metrological traceability" and allow the private sector to be utilized in providing metrological traceability to SI units.+To avoid this, standards writing bodies and regulatory agencies should gain a better understanding of "metrological traceability" and allow other NMIs and/or accredited commercial metrology laboratories to be utilized in providing metrological traceability to SI units.
  
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 For more information visit: [[https://us.flukecal.com/literature/about-calibration]] For more information visit: [[https://us.flukecal.com/literature/about-calibration]]