Metals and Engineering Corporation

Ethiopia Power Engineering Industry

Quality Engineering Management
Center

Shegole, Addis Ababa

Nov. 2017
 Pictorial Views of QEMC new Building

Calibration & Testing

Laboratory

QMC Office
 METEC
Quality Engineering
Management Center profile
➢Quality Management Center (QMC) has been
established under Metals and Engineering Corporation
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 2010 G.C. Since then it
has been working by its vision, quality assurance.
❑After the restructuring, QEMC became part of
Ethiopia Power Engineering Industry as one
operation since August 2017 G.C
❑QEMC is strategically located around Shegole,
northwest of Addis Ababa near the Gen. Winget
technical and Vocational School, which covers an
area of 70,000 m2.
Profile cont’d
❑Human capital :
➢Initial: 23
➢Current
Engineering: 127
Applied science: 28
Social: 17
Others: 22
Total manpower: 220
➢ Initial investment 217.6 million birr
➢ current 527 million birr
❑QEMC has four(4) major operational institutes
These institutes are:
➢Calibration and Test Laboratory Institute
➢Project Quality Supervision Institute
➢Quality Standards and Certification Institute
➢Research and development institute
Vision
By assuring the quality of METEC’s and
other private and government sectors
products and services to be able to
competent in the global market.
Mission
➢Provide quality supervision services for mega
projects owned by METEC,
➢Provide worldwide competent and customer
focused calibration and testing services,
➢Develop METEC’s, private and government
sectors civil and military products own standards
and provide product certificate
➢Quality inspection, verification, and auditing of
products, systems, processes and services based
on standard and requirements.
➢Develop design for precision and bio-medical
equipment
The core services provided by QEMC are:

❖Calibration and Testing

❖Quality management System Auditing and
implementation
❖Product and Process Inspection and Certification
❖Project Quality Supervision
❖Technical Support and Consultancy
❖Formulating (developing) standards for METEC
products and services
❖Design and production of scientific instruments
and other related services
Peripheral services provided by QEMC:
❑Training on:
✓ Basic Metrology
✓ QMS (ISO 9001, 2015) requirements
✓ Awareness on ISO 17025
✓ Measurement Uncertainty
❑Consultancy and Technical support on:
✓ Mini laboratory installation
✓ QMS development & implementation
✓ Quality testing
 Collaborator institutions with QEMC:
❑Ethiopian National Accreditation Office
❑Ethiopian Standards Agency
❑Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise
❑National metrology Institute
❑Legal metrology Agency
QEMC accredited areas:
Pressure gauge
AC volt -Volt meter
DC volt- Volt meter
DC current-Am meter
AC current- Am meter
Resistance meter- Ohm meter
The four calibration and testing
laboratories are:
a) Mechanical calibration Laboratory

b) Electrical calibration Laboratory

c) Geometrical calibration Laboratory and

d) Thermal calibration Laboratory

 Benefits of calibration
 Increase production yields
 Assures consistency
 Optimizes resources
 Is fundamental to compliance with
international, regulatory or industrial-sector
specific standards that require measurements
to be traceable to national standards and in
doing so,
 Ensures measurement (and perhaps products)
are compatible with those made elsewhere.
 When to calibrate
➢Calibrate too often it is waste of time and
money.
➢Calibrate too seldom is waste of product or
wrong decisions.
➢Balance between cost to calibrate and cost not
to calibrate.
➢Universally Applicable single best practice for
establishing & adjusting cal interval not
available
 Where to calibrate

➢Calibration is performed in the I/II/III party

laboratory under controlled environment.
(The environment need only to be controlled to
the extent required.)
➢Accredited Calibration Laboratory
➢Manufacturer’s/ Supplier’s Laboratory ensuring
valid traceability
Some of the instruments/parameters which
can be calibrated in QEMC lab are:
1. Temperature

Thermocouple type K,N,J,E,S,R,B

Base metal
Noble metal
RTD
IPRT
PRT
Digital Thermometer
Clinical Probe
 ❑Thermometer
♘ Temperature Indicator
♘ Temperature Enclosures
❑Oven
♘Chamber
♘ Fluid Bath
♘ Dry Block
♘ Furnaces
♘ Refrigerators
❑Humidity
♘ Hygrometers (all type)
♘ Stability Chamber
 Cont’d:
2. Geometrical lab
Length Calibration:-
Such as gauge blocks, Ring gauges, plague gauges,
thread gauges; dial gauge indicators, micrometers,
calipers etc.
Angle Calibration:-
Such as angle gauges, angular polygons, different types
of levels etc.
We also give testing services on site and in lab in areas
such as surface roughness, cylinder-city and surface
roughness etc.
Dial gauge calibration
 Cont’d:
3. Mechanical Lab:
⟴Pressure calibration
⟴ Balance calibration
⟴ Weight calibration
⟴ Torque wrench calibration
⟴ Vibration and shock sensor calibration
⟴ Force calibration
⟴ Hardness testing machine calibration
⟴ Non destructive testing
Fig. weight calibration at mechanical lab
Torque wrench calibration at mechanical lab
 Cont’d
4. Electrical Lab:
➢Analog and digital calibrators:
✓ammeters, voltmeters, ohmmeters, distortion
meters, phase meters, RF-power meters,
capacitance meters, inductance meters, multi-
meters, multi function calibrators, power supplies,
signal generators, frequency counters, oscilloscopes,
oscilloscope calibrators etc
➢Standards:
✓ capacitors, inductors, resistors, transfer devices,
noise sensors, attenuators, etc
. Oscilloscope calibration at electrical lab
Energy meter test
1.Quality assurance
✓ for civil works
✓ erection and installation of

environmental protection and

effluent treatment plant
Sugar project GERDP
 2. Performing quality inspection
✓ During manufacturing
✓ Erecting & installation inspection
✓ Dimensional inspection
✓ Welding inspection
✓ Material inspection
✓ Painting inspection
❑Hydraulic
❑pneumatic test
❑Pumps test
❑motor test
❑NDT
❑turbine generator tests
Adopted De
❖ METEC industries
❖ GOVT. and private manufacturing
industries
❖ Pharmaceuticals industries
❖ Health institutions
❖ EEP
❖ Ethiopian sugar corporation
❖ Construction industries
❖ Ethiopian chemical corporation
❖ Alcohols and beverage industries
 Ethiopian airlines
 Ethiopian telecom
 Ethiopian air force
 Broadcasting companies
 Ministry of agriculture
 Ministry of livestock and fishery
 Ethiopian railway corporation