Recent changes to ISO 9001 have increased calibration efforts for food manufacturers. A new 15-minute webinar helps you optimize calibration schedules and scale tolerances to save time—and up to 20 percent of valuable raw materials.
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Regular calibration based on a thorough assessment of process risk helps stabilize production while conserving time and resources. Getting this schedule right is important because testing too infrequently risks undetected accuracy problems, while testing too often interrupts production.
The 2015 revision of ISO 9001 has brought a major change regarding the risk-based approach that is found throughout the entire standard. This change also significantly impacts the calibration process. The revision acknowledges that the most important way to ensure that measurements deliver quality is to choose the right schedule to periodically re-calibrate your scale and a procedure based on your process risk.
Optimize calibration efforts
A systematic risk-based review of your weighing process can help to optimize calibration efforts and comply with the revised ISO 9001 standard. Calibration practices in the food production industry have shown that producers regularly give away up to 20% of valuable raw materials due to larger scale tolerances and inappropriate calibration frequency. This 20% can be saved by understanding your process risk and ensuring you have the right scale and tolerance for the job.
Risk-based analysis in 5 steps
METTLER TOLEDO has developed Good Weighing Practice™ (GWP®), a standardized scientific methodology for secure selection, calibration and operation of weighing equipment based on a thorough risk analysis. This 5-step process can be applied to any scale from any manufacturer embedded in any weighing process.
The new webinar Optimize Calibration Efforts with Risk-Based Analysis shows the five steps that are used by GWP that objectively assess how frequently calibration and routine testing should be performed. Watch it now and learn how GWP and an objective assessment of process risk can help optimize your efforts.