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MODULE B - PROCESS
B1. ASME Organizational Structure
B2. Standards Development: Staff and Volunteer
Roles and Responsibilities
B3. Conformity Assessment: Staff and Volunteer
Roles and Responsibilities
B4. Initiating and Terminating Standards Projects
B5. Consensus Process for Standards
Development
B6. The Basics of Parliamentary Procedure
B7. The Appeals Process
B8. International Standards Development
B9. ASME Conformity Assessment Programs
B10. Performance Based Standards
B.11. Consensus Process for Standards
Interpretations and Code Cases
REVISIONS
DATE SLIDE
CHANGE
Changed “Codes and Standards Board of Directors” to
“Council on Standards and Certification” throughout.
11/22/10
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19, 21, 22
and 24
Minor changes to submodule titles
Deleted to remove ISO 9000 references, dual reporting and to
consolidate slides.
4, 7, 12, 14,
15, 17,
18,19, 20,
21 and 22
Revised to remove ISO 9000 and QHO references, updated
references to policies, added new committees and noted that
some product certification committees report to BCA.
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11/3/11
B9. ASME Conformity Assessment Programs
OBJECTIVES
This submodule will
– Describe ASME’s conformity assessment activities
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AGENDA
I. Conformity Assessment
II. Accreditation
III. Certification
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WHY CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT?
• Conformity Assessment Process ensures
– Products, services, or systems have the
required characteristics
– Characteristics are consistent from product to
product, service to service, or system to system
– Individuals can be evaluated to determine
whether they meet the qualification
requirements of an ASME standard
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CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT
• Definition (ISO/IEC 17000)
– Demonstration that specified requirements relating
to a product, process, system, person or body are
fulfilled
– Examples: testing, inspection, certification,
accreditation
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CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT
• Types of conformity assessment
– First party
• Supplier’s declaration of conformity
– Second party
• Conformity assessment activity performed by the
user
– Third party
• Accreditation
• Certification
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ACCREDITATION
• Definition (ISO/IEC 17000)
– third-party attestation related to a conformity
assessment body conveying formal demonstration
of its competence to carry out specific conformity
assessment tasks
attestation: issuance of a statement, based
on a decision following review that fulfillment
of specified requirements has been
demonstrated
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ASME ACCREDITATION
• Applicability
– Organizations which perform some type of
conformity assessment activity
• ASME Accreditation Programs:
– Inspection organizations (ASME QAI-1 Standard for
Qualifications of Authorized Inspection)
– Organizations that certify elevator inspectors (ASME
QEI-1 Standard for Qualification of Elevator
Inspectors)
– Pressure Relief Device Laboratories (PRD)
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ASME ACCREDITATION
• Accreditation process
– ASME audit team reviews quality system
documentation and verifies implementation
• Formal recognition
– Certificate of Accreditation
– Certificate valid for specified period
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CERTIFICATION
• Definition (ISO/IEC 17000)
– third-party attestation related to products,
processes, systems or persons
attestation: issuance of a statement, based
on a decision following review that fulfillment
of specified requirements has been
demonstrated
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ASME CERTIFICATION
• Types of ASME Certification
– Product certification
– Personnel certification
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ASME PRODUCT CERTIFICATION
• Definition
– ASME product certification means that the capability
to fulfill requirements in the applicable standard by
the supplier has been reviewed and accepted by
ASME
– The supplier is responsible for ensuring that
products meet the requirements on which the
certification is based
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ASME PRODUCT CERTIFICATION
• ASME Product Certification Programs
– Boiler and Pressure Vessel (non-nuclear)
– Nuclear components
– Nuclear materials
– Reinforced thermoset-plastic tanks (RTP)
– NQA-1 Supplier (Program in Preparation)
– Bioprocessing Equipment (BPE)(Program in
Preparation)
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ASME PRODUCT CERTIFICATION
• Certification process
– ASME audit team reviews quality systems
documentation and verifies implementation
• Formal recognition
– Certificate of Authorization
• For use of ASME Certification mark
– Quality System/Program Certificate
• No applicable ASME Certification mark
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ASME PERSONNEL CERTIFICATION
• Definition
– ASME personnel certification means that an
individual’s qualifications have been reviewed,
proficiency has been demonstrated, and the
individual has been accepted by ASME as meeting all
requirements of an ASME Standard
– ASME Certification is not intended as an assertion or
implication that ASME accepts any responsibility for
the compliance, or liability for the consequences of
noncompliance, of any individual’s performance
under the issued certification. Such responsibility
and liability remain with the individual or employer.
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ASME PERSONNEL CERTIFICATION
• ASME Personnel Certification Programs
– Municipal waste incinerator operators (QRO)
– High capacity fossil-fuel fired facility operators (QFO)
– Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Professionals (GDTP)
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ASME PERSONNEL CERTIFICATION
• Certification process
– Evaluation of education and/or experience
– Written examination and for some programs also an
oral examination
• Formal recognition
– Certificate or Certification Card
– Valid for 3 to 5 years
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POP QUIZ #1
For each of the following, what type of
conformity assessment program is used:
accreditation, product certification or
personnel certification?
a. To assess the conformity of a boiler and pressure
vessel manufacturer to the ASME Boiler and
Pressure Vessel Code
b. To assess the qualifications of an individual to be
a hazardous waste incinerator operator
c. To assess the conformity of a company that will
provide boiler and pressure vessel inspection
services
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CA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Council on Standards and
Certification
Board on
Conformity Assessment
CA Committee
(e.g. Committee on
Nuclear Certification)
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• Board on Conformity
Assessment
– Supervises all ASME
conformity assessment
activities
• CA Committees
– Four product certification
committees report directly
to Board on Conformity
Assessment (CPVCA, BPE,
CNC and RTP)
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CURRENT ASME CA PROGRAMS
Council on Standards
and Certification
Board on
Board on
Board on
Board on
Nuclear C&S
Safety C&S
Standardization and
Conformity
Assessment
Boiler and
Pressure Vessel
(BPV)
Nuclear
Components
Elevator Inspector
Certification
Organizations
(QEI)
Reinforced
Thermoset Plastic
Vessels (RTP)
Nuclear Material
Organizations
(QSC)
Board on
Pressure
Technology
(N-type)
Testing
Note: PTC-25 is
an integral part
of PRD
accreditation
NQA-1 Supplier
Bioprocessing
Equipment (BPE)
Geometric
Dimensioning and
Tolerancing
Professionals
(GDTP)
(In preparation)
Authorized
Inspection
Agencies (AIA)
Resource
Recovery Facility
Operator (QRO)
High Capacity
Fossil-Fuel-Fired
Facility Operator
(QFO)
(In preparation)
Pressure
Relief Device
Laboratory
(PRD)
Accreditation Programs
Product Certification Programs
Personnel Certification Programs
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REFERENCES
The following Codes and Standards policies are available on
C&S Web site at
http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/pdf/CommitteeFiles/7614.pdf
– CSP-5, Code Symbol Stamps and ASME Markings
– CSP-19, ASME Designee and ASME Designated
Organization
– CSP-20, Policy on Accreditation and Certification
– CSP-53, Policy on Protection of ASME Marks
– CSP-55, Joint Conformity Assessment Activities
– CSP-58, Alternative Requirements Impacting Conformity
Assessment
– CSP-63, Guide for Establishing New ASME Conformity
Assessment Programs
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REFERENCES
(cont’d)
– ISO/IEC 17000 Conformity Assessment – Vocabulary and
general principles
– Conformity Assessment Web site at
http://www.asme.org/kb/standards/certification--accreditation
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