TY  - BOOK
AU  - Judge,Steven Michael
ED  - Institute of Physics (Great Britain),
TI  - Quality assurance for scientists and engineers: a practical guide 
T2  - [IOP release $release]
SN  - 9780750351072
AV  - TS156.6 .J847 2023eb
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK)
PB  - IOP Publishing
KW  - Quality assurance
KW  - Mensuration & systems of measurement
KW  - bicssc
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Measurement
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Version: 20231101"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Introduction--quality management systems -- 1.1. A brief history of quality assurance -- 1.2. Quality infrastructure -- 1.3. Consistent measurement quantities and units -- 1.4. Written guidance that describes best practice -- 1.5. Accreditation -- 1.6. Enforcement--legal metrology -- 1.7. An example of the quality infrastructure in practice : surface contamination monitors; 2. Quality in practice -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Instrumentation -- 2.3. Laboratory facilities -- 2.4. Calibration -- 2.5. Validation and measurement uncertainty -- 2.6. Pass or fail decisions : conformity assessment -- 2.7. Software validation -- 2.8. Demonstrating that the validation studies have worked--proficiency test exercises -- 2.9. Maintaining the quality of measurements; 3. Management aspects of quality -- 3.1. The Quality Policy -- 3.2. The Quality Manual -- 3.3. People -- 3.4. Processes -- 3.5. Scientific work; 4. The future of quality assurance -- 4.1. Digitalization -- 4.2. Quality assurance and academic research (the reproducibility crisis); BSc/MSc/PhD students, early career researchers, and students starting industrial placements; Also available in print
N2  - Scientific research generates data. However, if the quality of the data is poor and unreliable, progress will be impeded- sometimes for years. Scientists conducting research must be fully equipped with the appropriate tools to plan and execute well managed, reproducible scientific research. The aim of this book is to introduce the topic of quality assurance management systems such as ISO17025 and ISO9001 to scientists at an early stage in their careers. It describes the issues they are likely to encounter in the workplace: what should be done to check (and double-check) their work and how to document what they have done. There are many interesting scientific challenges on the way - puzzling out what could possibly go wrong and avoiding the problem is often as fascinating as carrying out the work itself
UR  - https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-5107-2
ER  -