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How competence is defined, assessed, authorized and re-verified for the work described on this site.
Disciplines Covered
Work spans dimensional metrology for coordinate measuring machines, portable arms and hand and fixed gages, plus CMM part programming across the platforms named on the programming service page. Each discipline is scoped separately when a request is reviewed.
Competence Framework
Competence for a given measurement is established against the performing laboratory's documented scope of accreditation before a request is accepted. Method selection follows the applicable standard — ISO 10360 series, ASME B89.4.1 or ASME B89.4.10360.2 — and is matched to the machine's working volume, controller and stated MPE. Re-verification of competence follows the performing laboratory's own accredited quality system and is not re-derived here.
In practice our framework runs in four steps, and it runs the same way for every discipline listed above.
How Competence Is Established
- 01
Defined
Each task has a written competence requirement: the method, the equipment, the range, and the evidence that counts as proof of capability.
- 02
Assessed
Capability is demonstrated against that requirement — supervised work, witnessed measurement, and comparison against a known reference.
- 03
Authorised
Authorization is granted per task and per range, never as a blanket qualification, and it is recorded.
- 04
Re-verified
Authorizations are reviewed on a schedule and after any change of method, equipment or standard. Training records are kept for as long as the authorization is live.
Authorization and Review
Results are reviewed before release by a role independent of the person who performed the measurement, consistent with ISO/IEC 17025 requirements for technical review. Release of a certificate confirms that the recorded data, the stated uncertainty and the decision rule applied are consistent with the method used and the scope under which the work was performed.
Results are reviewed before release. The review confirms that the method used matches the method quoted, that the recorded conditions are within the limits the method requires, that the calculation and the stated uncertainty are correct, and that the certificate says what the measurement supports and nothing more. Only personnel authorized for that task and range may approve the release of a result, and the approver is recorded against the certificate.
Capacity and Continuity
Scheduling is built around on-site visits to bridge, gantry and cantilever CMMs and ship-in service for portable arms and gage crib items. Continuity across a multi-day on-site visit is planned before work begins, and escalation for an out-of-tolerance finding follows the notification sequence described on the quality-system page.
We staff for cover rather than for peaks. More than one person is authorized for every routine task, so absence or a spike in demand moves the schedule and leaves the result alone.
Requirements outside current authorizations are escalated, never attempted. They are quoted through a laboratory whose scope covers the measurement, or declined with the reason stated.
Related Reading
Equipment, traceability and the management system these authorizations sit inside are described on the quality system page. Open technical roles are listed on the careers page.
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Competence records, method statements and scope detail are supplied on request with any quotation.