Any laboratory wishing to achieve accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 is required to have, and to apply, policies and procedures for the estimation, use and reporting of uncertainties of measurement for any tests or calibrations covered by their scope of accreditation.
What are the benefits?
Drawing on experience of training skills of estimating uncertainty of measurement to more than two thousand testing and calibration practitioners over the years, this course aims to provide delegates with an appreciation of the concept of uncertainty of measurement in both a testing and calibration environment, and uses a combination of lectures and interactive exercises and demonstrations to take delegates through the process of calculating uncertainties.
This course starts at 9.15am on Day one and finishes at 5pm on day three.
Day 1
> Introductions and briefing
> I think we may have dropped one! - A live witnessed test
> Appreciation of Uncertainty: Individual Exercise in Open Session
> History and Background
> Traceability, calibration, corrections and SI units
> Definition of Metrological Terms
> Classifications of Uncertainty – Type A & Type B
> Discovering Distributions
> Symbols and Equations Part 1
> Combination of Uncertainties
> Pre-course Work – De-briefing
> Calculation of Uncertainty for a Measurement
> Report Back on Calculation and Introduction of Forms/Excel for calculating uncertainties.
Day 2
> Ensuring understanding of material covered in Day One
> Calculation of Uncertainty for a Measurement
> Example of a test with influence quantities
> Sources of Uncertainty
> Exercise – Uncertain about methods?
> Correlated Contributions
> Human Factors
> Exercise – Measurement of Body Mass Index with uncertainty estimate
> Exercise: Calculation of uncertainty for the calibration of a weighing machine
Day 3
> Ensuring understanding of material covered in Day Two
> Pooled Standard Deviations
> Approaches to Evaluating sources of uncertainty
> Exercise – Sources of Uncertainty and Report Back
> Normal or not? – situations where a normal distribution cannot be assumed for the combined uncertainty
> Symbols and Equations Part 2
> Exercise - Effective Degrees of Freedom
> How Many Measurements?
> Stochastic modelling of uncertainty in quantitative measurements
> Sampling, Destructive Testing, Non-numeric Results
> Statements of Uncertainty and Compliance
Who should attend?
Any person who is, or will be, involved in the estimation, use and reporting of uncertainties of measurement for testing and/or calibration
When |
Where |
Fee |
How to book |
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3-5 July 2012
23-25 October 2012
22-24 January 2013
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Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Berkshire |
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The residential fee £1350.00 + VAT includes comprehensive course materials and refreshments and lunch on all days of the course. It also includes dinner, accommodation and breakfast for two nights.
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