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Title: The Publication Of ISO 10012 Requirements For Measurement Processes And Measurement Systems
Author: Rolf B. F. Schumacher
Source: 2003 Measurement Science Conference
Year Published: 2003
Abstract: Beginning in 1962, I contacted Dr. Churchill Eisenhart. He was then the Chief of the NBS (National Bureau of Standards, now NIST) department of mathematics. The NBS is a branch of the US Dept. of Commerce. And he carried the major weakness of all metrologists for not knowing how to determine the uncertainty of NBSs measurements. He had just written a paper and published in the NCSL first meeting in Denver, CO that year, Realistic Evaluation of the Precision and Accuracy of Instrument Calibration Systems, and received the NCSL Wildhack Award for it several years later, although few had any idea what it was all about. Eisenhart had shown that the main work by Dr. Walter Shewhart, in his 1920s, Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product produces measurements results that enable the determination of measurement uncertainties. During World War II, the American industry, working for the US military had to use Shewharts method of quality assurance to such a success that Dr. Shewhart was widely accepted as the Father of Modern Quality Assurance.

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