ISO 17025 Lab Quality Management System is important for all the laboratories for improving their working and also for accreditation. ISO has introduced new version of ISO 17025 on 1st December 2017. This book provides the requirements of the standard briefly and in diagrammatically for easy understanding and implement. Lab personnel, consultants, professionals and any one who is interested in understanding the requirements of ISO 71025-2017 will find this book extremely useful.

ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management system is adopted by laboratories for accreditation and improvement purpose. This book, written by practicing consultants is a diagrammatic representation of requirements of the standard. It is easy to refer, read and understand. The lab personnel, consultants and auditors would find this book useful as a ready reckoner.

This book presents the Quality System Procedure for implementation of ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System Standard. It covers all the mandatory procedures required by the standard and other relevant procedures. Total 25 procedures are included in this book. Each Procedure is formatted and the records related to it are specified. Diagrams are included in the procedure to understand the clause requirements. The organizations going for Lab Accreditation or wants improvement in the system will find this book useful for developing their own procedure manual which would suffice to the standard requirements.

Laboratory accreditation has assumed immense importance in recent years because of the need to assure the customer that the laboratory is capable of providing the valid test results reliably. ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System has become part of the requirement of all the laboratories, small to large. Over the years, ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System has evolved, as per the laboratory and customer requirements, and has become very important for improving laboratory systems and processes in order to sustain competitive advantages. This book focuses on requirements and key features of ISO 17025:2017 Lab Quality Management System such as risk-based thinking, PDCA approach, process management, and continual improvement. The readers would find it easier to understand the standard requirements and implement these in their work place.

This book is specially useful for the laboratories preparing Quality Manual as per ISO 17025-2017 Lab Quality Management System. It includes the index, release authorisation, amendment sheet, explanation of how lab complies with clause requirements, references to procedures and records for each clause as an evidence. The book is also useful to all the professionals associated with laboratory quality management as reference for preparing the lab for accreditation.

Establishing and maintaining laboratory quality standards are essential to generate reliable results to support clinical and public health actions. The Laboratory Quality Standardspresent a minimum set of standards that can be readily adapted by countries and applied to laboratories at every level of the health-care system. This book also outlines mechanism to implement them. This book will be of help to national policy-makers as well as regulators in developing national laboratory quality standards. It provides a simple approach to meet the minimum requirements set with the ultimate objective to comply with ISO 15189 in a logical and step-by-step manner.

Auditing Fundamentals in a South African Context 2e is a practical, applied and engaging introductory textbook that supports students throughout the undergraduate level of the Auditing curriculum. The text is designed to enhance learning by supporting holistic understanding: theory is presented within the framework of the real-world business environment, assisting students to apply principles and standards with an understanding of their context. The text offers a clear pedagogical framework, which supports applied learning and develops independent, critical and reflective engagement with the subject matter. A continuing case study, which follows each stage of the audit of a South African company, demonstrates the practical application of learned principles and the integration of the auditing process with a typical audit client's business. The second edition is comprehensively revised to reflect all relevant, recent changes in the requirements of legislation, financial reporting and auditing pronouncements and codes, and addresses the new Code of Professional Conduct which was issued by the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants in the final quarter of 2018. Additional educational resources support teaching and learning, assisting students to develop the academic skills required to master their studies.

This book combines the perspectives of materials science of Superplasticity, on the one hand, and those of design and mechanics, on the other, in order to provide a holistic view of materials, design, mechanics and performance which will lead to useful solutions of societal benefits, in addition to providing great intellectual challenges. After considering the experimental evidence for superplasticity in different classes of materials, the book discusses the physics-based models, along with their advantages and limitations. Then, the analyses for superplastic forming available in the framework of continuum mechanics, finite element analysis and numerical simulations are presented. Finally, the authors highlight some successful industrial applications. This book is recommended as a text book for courses on Superplasticity and as supplementary use for courses on Materials Processing, Manufacturing, High Temperature Deformation, Nanotechnology and Mechanical Behavior of Materials. Persons working in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Metallurgy, Ceramics and Geo-sciences are likely to find the book to be useful. It is also recommended as a reference source for practicing engineers involved in the design, processing and manufacture of industrial components, which exploit the unique properties associated with superplastic materials.