Handbook of Quality System, Accreditation and Conformity Assessment

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Anuj Bhatnagar is currently working as Senior Director and Head of the Management and Systems department Bureau of Indian Standards. He has more than 33 years of experience in standards formulation (in the field of Management and Systems) product & system certification auditing and laboratory management of testing & calibration laboratories the National Standards Body of India i.e. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Out of these more than 13 years have been spent in certification (product and system) around 15 years in Testing and Calibration Laboratory 2 years in standards formulation and 3 years in administrative & support activities like publication planning & coordination/vigilance. He has expertise in Product certification Quality Management System certification Laboratory Management Systems; faculty for Laboratory Management Systems ILC/ PT & ISO 17043 and Uncertainty in Measurement. He has coordinated and developed many training programs for professionals on these topics successfully and trained more than 1000 industry professionals (national and international) in these topics. Audited many organizations (more than 20) as per ISO 9001 and carried out more than 100 audits as per ISO/ IEC 17025 for NABL and BIS. He has authored several papers and 2 books related to Measurement Systems; developed a criteria for variation in the inter-lab QA tests and established the National Mirror Committee of ISO REMCO in India. Dr. Sanjay Yadav former Chief Scientist and Head Physico-Mechanical Metrology Division & Professor-AcSIR Faculty of Physical Sciences at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL). Presently he is Vice President Metrology Society of India New Delhi and Vice President Ultrasonic Society of India New Delhi India. He has also contributed in several national and international advisory boards / committees like IMEKO APMP BIPM BIS NCERT and FCRI etc. Prior to joining CSIR-NPL India he has worked for more than 7 years as a Project Officer in the Science and Technology Department Haryana Government for the implementation of various rural development programmes. He has more than 450 research publications to his credit in national and international journals of repute books monographs reports conferences seminars workshops. He has also contributed in the participation of various international key comparisons viz. APMP. M.P. K13 (50500 MPa) 20112015 CCM.P-K13 (50500 MPa) 20092012 CCM.P-K8 (50500 MPa) 1997 APLAC Interlaboratory comparison (050 MPa) 1998 APMP.M. P-K7 (10100 MPa) 2002 CCM.P-K7 (10100 MPa) 2004. He has also coordinated seven proficiency-testing programmes sponsored by NABL India for Indian-accredited pressure laboratories. He is the recipient of research scholarships from the Ministry of Home Affairs India (1986); CSIR India (1988); Col. G.N. Bajpayee Award of Institution of Engineers India (1989); Commendation Certificates from Haryana Government (1991 & 1992); JICA Fellowship of JAPAN (1998); Commendation Certificates from SASO Saudi Arabia (2003) and APMP Awards for Developing Economies (2020). He is also qualified Assessor for laboratory accreditation as per ISO/IEC 17025 (2017). He is also working (since last 6 years) as Chief Editor of MAPAN: The Journal of Metrology Society of India. He is a Fellow member of MSI USI ISOI Vigyan Bharti etc. He has visited LNE France (1998 2014); NMIJ AIST Japan (19981999) and NMCL SASO Saudi Arabia 2003; KIM-LIPI Indonesia 2014; BSB Bhutan 2016 and SIRIM Malaysia 2017 on official deputations. Specialties: He has significantly contributed to the field of pressure and ultrasonic metrology establishment of national pressure standards dissemination of national practical pressure scale to users interlaboratory comparisons proficiency testing programme and key comparisons biomedical instrumentation ultrasonic transducers and instrumentation systems.Prof. VenuGopal Achanta a noted physicist electronic expert metrologists and science leader joined CSIR-NPL in June 2021. Recently he has also been given the responsibility of another esteemed CSIR laboratory i.e. CSIR-IGIB New Delhi. He did his M.Sc. in Physics from Central University Hyderabad. He obtained PhD in Physics from TIFR in 2000 for his work on Exciton dynamics in low dimensional semiconductors. In 2006 he was awarded PhD in Electronics Engineering from Tokyo University for work on the design and demonstration of an ultrafast all-optical switch. He had done this research as a NEDO Fellow at the headquarters of Japanese National Femtosecond Technology project FESTA Labs between 2000 and 2003. From 2003 to 2004 he worked as JST Fellow in the Quantum Information Technology group Basic Research Labs NEC Japan. He joined TIFR as faculty in 2004 where he was a Professor (H) since 2018. His research interests include classical and quantum information processing with dipolar emitters like quantum dots embedded in photonic and nanophotonic structures advanced metrology dissemination of apex metrological traceability through world-class measurement standards BNDs skill development in the country and strengthening national quality infrastructure for the overall economic growth of the country.Dr. Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke is an economist with a PhD in economics and political science. He is a researcher and expert on quality infrastructure and sustainable development and a founding partner of MesopartnerParG (Germany). Since 2004 he has been providing consultancy services to quality infrastructure actors in many countries in Africa Asia Latin America and the Caribbean on behalf of German and international cooperation institutions (PTB GIZ ITC UNIDO and the World Bank). Within this framework Dr. Ulrich provides consultancy to governments on national quality policies. He also co-developed the Calidena method agap analysis for quality infrastructure services in value chains. Dr. Ulrich is a visiting researcher and lecturer at the Technical University in Berlin and promotes the Global Quality Infrastructure Index (GQII). He is dedicated to creating content with an academic and scientific focus and regularly shares his knowledge on the blog QI4D.Dr. Jeff Gust is Sr. Director Metrology Compliance & Regulatory Affairs and Chief Corporate Metrologist at Fluke Corporation USA. He has more than 25 years of expertise in metrology including primary standards level DC/LF RF Fiber Optics Time & Frequency Pressure Temperature Dimensional and Mechanical. He is one of the Co-Authors of 3 NIST publications. He is also associated with NCSLI International as Vice President.Dr. Shanay Rab is joining an academic university as a faculty in London United Kingdom. He has also served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Delhi India. He is a Mechanical Engineer obtained his M.Tech from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad with specialization in Machine Design. He has obtained his doctorate degree from CSIR-National Physical Laboratory and Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi India in the area of pressure metrology and mechanical system design. He has published several scientific research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include Machine Design Pressure/Force metrology Quality Infrastructure Finite Element Analysis and Additive Manufacturing. He is also actively involved in science communication.