ASME B18.18.6M-1998 (R2009)

For the purpose of this Standard, third party registration is the successful conclusion of a structured auditing and approval board process that has verified compliance of an audited quality system to a specified quality system standard. Such compliance is determined by the documented auditing of the defined system and its scope of activities (in its various documented and implemented forms) by an agency (registar) that has the authority, conferred by an accreditation process itself, to audit and grant registration status. Registrars are recognized by the American National Standards Institute and/or the American Society for Quality Control.