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# ISO-17025 guide to calibration

Precision engineering relies on accurate equipment. Monitoring and maintaining the tolerance, or margin of error, of this equipment is calibration. For industries where especially fine margins are safety or mission-critical, a particularly thorough calibration process is crucial to achieving a consistently high-quality end product.

Calibration is referred to in the UKAS Quality Management Standard ISO-9001:2005. The standard does not refer exclusively to the operation and management of calibration facilities, so it is introduced as a component of a wider quality management system.

With highly accurate and readily traceable calibration being particularly important to precision manufacturing industries such as medical, aerospace and defence, **ISO-17025 - General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories** was introduced in 1999. This was subsequently updated in 2005 and again to the current ISO-17025:2017 version.

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