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Research & Development in Material Science

Significance of Testing & Calibration and International Acceptance - a brief on Indian Scenarios

  • Open or Close Alok Jain1,2*, Sanjay Yadav3, SK Jaiswal3 and Sikander Azam2

    1National Accreditation Board of Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) / QCI, India

    2Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), India

    3CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), India

    *Corresponding author: Alok Jain, National Accreditation Board of Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) / QCI, Gurugram, India

Submission: March 27, 2018;Published: April 17, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/RDMS.2018.05.000615

ISSN: 2576-8840
Volume5 Issue3

Abstract

“Quality” means ensuring that products and services meet the requirements of the customers. Another way of understanding this approach to quality is that products and services should be fit for the purpose for which they are intended. For example, expensive leather shoes can be regarded as luxury products, but failing to meet the quality requirements of a farmer who really needs a pair of much less expensive rubber boots fit for his purpose of working in muddy fields. This understanding of quality as being fit for purpose and meeting customer requirements allows a Quality Infrastructure, which comprises Standardization, Metrology and Conformity Assessment (Testing and Calibration), to be used for producing effective results in meeting a broad range of challenges, in addition to product or service quality. Examples of particular interest to developing countries are food safety, health, environment, climate change, social responsibility and gender issues. The present paper briefly describes such issues with special reference to Indian quality infrastructure.

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