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| Image downloaded from National Metrology Laboratory of the Philippines website. |
NML gets accredited anew
If being ISO-certified is already a good
thing, being declared competent by a foreign accreditation authority makes
things even more prestigious for DOST’s Industrial Technology Development
Institute (ITDI).
In 2010, ITDI’s National Metrology Laboratory of the
Philippines (NML) earned its DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 Accreditation, also
known as “General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration
Laboratories”, from Germany’s national accreditation body, Deutsche
Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (DAkkS) in the fields of mass, temperature, and
pressure. This year, NML gained another milestone as DAkkS also awarded the
Laboratory for its proven competency in electrical measurements.
Getting one institution ISO-accredited
involves quite an extensive assessment of its standards, calibration
procedures, and equipment, ensuring that everything is reliable and accurate.
Thankfully the Laboratory passed the competency assessment phase with flying
colors, thus assuring users of top-of-the-line service and dependability of
ITDI’s calibration services.
The Laboratory, led by its Chief, Ms.
Aurora V. Kimura, is the Philippines’ government authority in the field of
metrology. And with the DAkkS accreditation in place, its Calibration
Certificates and the calibrated equipment of customers can now sport the
distinct DAkkS logo and registration codes – marks of utmost quality,
reliability, and international traceability. Having a locally available and
accredited calibration service also provides local industries the convenience
of no longer having to send their equipment to other countries to be
calibrated, thus saving on transport and other related fees, as well as the
turnover time.
NML is the authority in establishing and
maintaining national physical standards for basic and derived quantities such
as mass, length, temperature, time interval, voltage, and resistance throughout
the country. These national standards are also periodically calibrated by other
countries’ national metrology institutes so as to guarantee international
traceability.
NML has ten (10) calibration
laboratories – Mass, Force, Pressure, Length, Electricity and Frequency,
Temperature, Hygrometry, Photometry, Density, and Volume – and offers
measurement services in these areas.
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| Image downloaded from Deutsche Botschaft Manila website |
Located within the DOST compound in
Taguig City, NML presently exists as the laboratory arm of ITDI tasked to carry
out the technical calibration and laboratory functions to effectively implement
the provisions of the National Metrology Act of 2003, otherwise known as RA 9236.
It also offers calibration proficiency testing through inter-laboratory
comparisons, trainings, and consultancies.
(09/18,2012, RdelaCruz, ITDI S&T
MEDIA SERVICE)