COURSE OVERVIEW

 

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

Calibration is a set of operations, performed in accordance with a definite procedure. These procedures compare the measurements performed by the laboratory instrument to those made by a standard or a more accurate instrument. As a result, any error in the functioning of the laboratory instrument can be detected, reported, and, therefore, eliminated. The aim of calibration is to ensure that the readings from the instrument are accurate and consistent with other measurements. It, thus, increases the reliability of the instrument, which is highly important in laboratory practices. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of calibration of offline laboratory analyzers. It covers the general methodology comprising of common measurements, traceability standards, hierarchy, measurement standards and substitution of standards; the measurement systems, methods, characteristics, data considerations, IM&TE specification terms, error sources and measurement assurance program (MAP); the calibration systems based on ISO 17025; and the calibration requirements, procedures, standardization and adjustment methods. 

Further this course will also discuss the industry practices, regulations, environmental control, validation processes, records management and official reports; the major instruments used in the laboratory, covering gas chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), liquid chromatography (LC) and inductively couples plasma (ICP); and the propagation of uncertainty, uncertainty and calibration of instruments, and uncertainty calculation. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the calibration functions, apply analytical procedure calibration and analytical range; the process data, linear calibration function, process data for the linear calibration function, process data for the 2-order calibration function, verification of linearity and precision and recovery function; the calibration error analysis and statistical process control; and the limits of calibration and calibration bias.