EC - Qualicoat

Executive Committee (8 November 2012)
Q U A L I C O A T
5.2 Other working groups
List of calibration tools (Topic No. 2)
The list originally prepared by the Laboratories WG had been submitted at the latest
QUALISURFAL meeting. The inspectors present at that meeting had come to the
conclusion that some of the proposed tools were not necessary as many instruments
available in the coaters’ laboratories were self-calibrating. Several counterproposals
had been prepared during that meeting.
Those present discussed the question of to what extent it was the inspector’s
responsibility to check whether the instruments at the coaters’ plants were working
properly or not, especially in the case of coaters which had self-calibrating devices or if
the instruments had been regularly calibrated by recognised third parties (suppliers of
the instruments). Some delegates argued that it was up to the inspector to take
calibration tools with him to an inspection to countercheck proper functioning of the
instruments.
After a lengthy discussion, the EC decided by 11 votes to 10 that the list of mandatory
calibration tools should be incorporated in the Specifications without the amendments
proposed by the QUALISURFAL Coating Section.
EC rejected the amendments made by QUALISURFAL to the list of mandatory
calibration tools and asked the Specifications WG to prepare an update sheet
(Resolution No 4).
Statistical evaluation of test results (AASS and FFC tests) (Topic No. 3)
This matter had already been dealt with at the TC meeting.
EC asked the Technical Director to prepare a final detailed proposal showing the scope
of the investigation to be carried out on AASS and FFC tests. A decision about the
budget would be taken at the next EC meeting (Resolution No. 5).
6. SEASIDE-QUALIMARINE – test programme schedule
At the previous EC meeting, it had been agreed that Mr. Boi would attend an ADAL
meeting in order to define the exact parameters of a possible additional investigation
and to clear up all possible ambiguities so that a final decision on this matter could be
taken at this EC meeting.
Mr. Boi had presented an initial draft of the test programme at the meeting of the
Aluminium WG held in Amsterdam in July. At that meeting, he had expressed his
opinion that he was not in favour of ADAL’s latest proposal to extend the AASS test to
1500 and 2000 hours as the test results would no longer be comparable if new
parameters were introduced. However, an extension to 2000 hours could be
considered for experimental purposes, but not to evaluate cycles. The new cycle D
should be compared to cycles A, B and C.
At that meeting, ADAL had also been asked to submit a final confirmation regarding its
will to accept the equivalence once the investigation had been carried out. In a letter
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