The Collège français de métrologie is continuing its efforts to disseminate good measurement practice with the publication of this new technical guide devoted to twenty examples of uncertainty assessment of measurement or test results, as part of the Collection d'Afnor Éditions.
Indeed, many decisions are based on measurement or test results: compliance with regulations, comparison of measurement methods, etc., and the quality of these decisions depends to a large extent on the quality of the measurement results.
It is therefore essential to provide any user of a measurement result with information on its quality and reliability: this is the role of uncertainty!
Since the publication of Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) which underpins the principles of uncertainty assessment, a great deal of work has been carried out to develop "alternative" methods that are easier to implement, particularly when modeling the measurement or analysis process is impossible for technical or economic reasons. These methods make full use of experimental data: repeatability, reproducibility, control charts, interlaboratory tests, etc.
The examples presented in this Guide are both diverse in terms of the fields of measurement and testing, but also in terms of the uncertainty assessment methods used. They are based on the modeling method (GUM), but also on the application of additional or alternative methods.
The Collège français de métrologie hopes that this new technical guide will help the entire measurement and testing community to move forward.
This document is the latest addition to the Collège français de métrologie library, which now comprises 13 different books.
Selling price of new Technical guide 95 including VAT (5.5 %)
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