This document specifies the requirements for a measurement management system when an organization:

1. needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently ensure confidence in validity and reliability of measurement results and thereby to provide a consistent level of measurement quality for an organization’s products and services;
2. aims to rely on reliable and valid measurement results useful to enhance customer satisfaction and effectively apply its measurement management system processes;
3. implements processes for a measurement management system that enhance conformity with customer, statutory and regulatory requirements.

All the requirements of this document are generic. This document is applicable to any organization, regardless of its type or size, or the products and services it provides. This includes organizations manufacturing products and providing engineering services (except for calibration and test services included within the scope of ISO/IEC 17025).

This document is not intended to substitute requirements for, or to add requirements to, the general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories specified in ISO/IEC 17025.

NOTE            For organizations that operate internal testing and calibration laboratories, the competence of those functions can be evaluated in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025.