Testing Laboratory

Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency

The Testing Laboratory is a distinct structure inside the Military Equipment & Technologies Research Agency, founded by the Ministry of Defense Order number M1 from 07.01.1998 and subordinate to Armament Department. The organisation of the Laboratory doesn’t allow any outside pressure that could influence in a bad way the quality of it’s activities. The Testing Laboratory wants to avoid any implication in activities that can diminish the confidence in its competence, impartiality, reasoning or it’s functional integrity.

Due to the professionalism of its employees and their confidentiality upon the tests and measurement results, as to the modern gear, in the latter years the Testing Laboratory became the consultant mechanism. Its services are more and more solicited by firms from our country and abroad.

The solving of the problems regarding quality is realised by implementing an efficient quality management system. By this SMQ the satisfaction of our clients is ensured with quality services pursuant to their request. Presently the Testing Laboratory is about to be accredited by RENAR (contract nr. 1181 from 27.02.2007).

For satisfying the requests imposed by a good military or civilian acquisition system, the Testing Laboratory proposes itself to reach some main objectives regarding quality, as follows:

• To obtain the satisfaction of our client regarding the technical and technological requests of the tested products and the services offered by the Testing Laboratory;
• To give proofs in order to determine confidence in the Testing Laboratory’s capabilities to offer services at the level specified in SR EN ISO/CEI 17025:2005; 
• To respect the conditions and stipulations of national and international laws regarding environment society;
• To obtain the accreditation, to maintain and improve an adequate quality system.

The increasing competence of the Testing Laboratory is one of the major processes in witch the Ministry of Defense Policy concerning the quality of the products implied in national defense, public order, national safety and security and efficient use of public funds for products and services acquisition is applied.

The Testing Lab’s value system is represented by its highly qualified personnel, the continuing improvement, receptivity towards client’s requests, facts confirmed by obtaining, in 2006, The Prize for Excellency in the management of the project “The Development of the Testing Lab’s capacity for conformity evaluation in domains of the standards SR EN 13763 from Directive 93/15/EEC”.

The fact that the list of its clients includes both state organisms and private firms, is one more proof of its neuter organism status which the Testing Lab has consolidated in time. The ambient conditions in witch the tests are done guarantee the results validation. The lab’s spacing has central heating, artificial light and water supply, and the tests are not affected by dust, humidity, vapors, vibrations, electromagnetic distortions or chemical agents.

The strong relation between health and safety on one hand, and the impact of the specific military activities on the environment on the other hand, determines actions for reducing the impact of military activities on personnel and the environment by ensuring an adequate quality of its services.

THE DOCUMENTS USED FOR TESTING ACTIVITIES IN THE TESTING LABORATORY

• Romanian technical military standards (STP-M-040065 ÷040072 -91)
• NATO technical military standards (MIL –STD- 810E)
• Romanian technical civilian standards (SR –EN 13763-2; SR –EN 13763-6; SR –EN 13763-8; SR –EN 13763-11.
• International technical standards
• Technical specifications for product development