Analysis of the Operation of Accreditation Bodies - Conduction and Results from the first benchmarking Round with 8 Accreditation Bodies
- In autumn 2014 the German accreditation body Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (DAkkS) and the German federal institute Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM) initiated a project to compare the operations of accreditation bodies by developing and implementing a tailor-made management tool. Eight European Accreditation Bodies attended the first benchmarking round. By means of the Process Maturity Benchmarking Tool (PMBT) a set of relevant processes was identified and analyzed using indicators based on data from data records and the maturity of the investigated processes. A Results-Workshop was conducted with experts from the accreditation bodies to identify best practices and discuss different modes of operation.