About ASNITE

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What's ASNITE ?

ASNITE stands for Accreditation System of National Institute of Technology and Evaluation and is newly established accreditation program by IAJapan.

In Japan, there is a growing need for laboratory accreditation systems other than JCSS and JNLA as follows:

• Conformity assessment of the National Metrology Institute (NMI) to international standards (ISO/IEC 17025 and/or ISO 17034), and accreditation of IT security laboratory/evaluation facility, etc.
• In industrial sectors, flexible accreditation according to various test method standards (when JNLA is not applicable), accreditation of calibration using a standard traceable to overseas measurement standards (when JCSS is not applicable).

ASNITE (Accreditation System of National Institute of Technology and Evaluation) is the comprehensive accreditation system operated by National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) according to the international standards and requirements. Its aim is to complement the fields where the private sectors cannot cover sufficiently because;

• high profitability cannot be expected due to insufficient number of relevant laboratories,
• many small/medium enterprises are affected and politic measures should be taken, or
• mutual technical assessment between private sectors is difficult in advanced technology.

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ASNITE Accreditation Program

Current accreditation program and accreditation criteria (classified by program category) are as follows:

ASNITE Accreditation Program

Accreditation Program	Scope of MRA/MLA	Accreditation Criteria
Calibration Laboratories (Calibration labs other than JCSS, and RMP)	ILAC/APAC MRA	ISO/IEC 17025*1 (Calibration)
Testing Laboratories (Testing labs other than JNLA and including IT)	ILAC/APAC MRA	ISO/IEC 17025*1 (Testing)
Reference Material Producers	ILAC/APAC MRA	ISO 17034*2
Product Certification Bodies	IAF/APAC MLA	ISO/IEC 17065

1.  *1  ISO/IEC 17025 "General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories"
2.  *2  ISO 17034 "General requirements for the competence of reference material producers"
3.  *  Please see relevant pages for details of each subprogram.