What is ISO/IEC TR 17032 - Conformity assessment about?
ISO/IEC TR 17032 is an international standard that focuses on conformity assessment with guidelines and examples. ISO/IEC TR 17032 provides guidelines, principles, and examples of schemes for the certification of processes.
Who is ISO/IEC TR 17032 - Conformity assessment for?
ISO/IEC TR 17032 on conformity assessment guidelines and examples of a scheme for the certification is useful for:
- Certification bodies
- Process owners
- Regulatory authorities
- Specifiers, purchasers, and users of certified processes
Why should you use ISO/IEC TR 17032- Conformity assessment?
ISO/IEC TR 17032 provides guidelines accompanied by examples that are used to illustrate ways in which the guidelines can be used, without precluding other approaches as decided by the scheme owner in consultation with the other stakeholders.
A process is considered in ISO/IEC TR 17032 to be a transformation of input into output. It is a set of interrelated or interacting activities that use inputs to deliver an intended result. The output of a process can be a product, a service, a combination of a product and service, or another output. In some cases, process certification is used when certification of the output is not feasible or prohibitively expensive. Certification of the process is the only indicator of the quality of the output since the output itself is not certified.
ISO/IEC TR 17032 identifies the specific characteristics of an object, product, or substance, usually in a testing laboratory, it may involve calibrating or operating a product to determine if its performance meets applicable standards.
There are many benefits of conformity assessment included in ISO/IEC TR 17032, the benefits include confidence in products and processes, assuring consumers and regulators, and compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality management standards. Conformity assessment even potentially results in better financial results, less risk, and lower insurance premiums.