Company Profile

ACLASS, An ANSI-ASQ National Accreditaiton Board Company, is headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area and operates in international and domestic markets. ACLASS is an accreditation body dedicated to providing quality and reliable accreditation services.

ACLASS brings customers affordable accreditation activities while treating our customer as a partner. We aim to help recognize the value and importance of ISO accreditation not only to our customer, but to our customers' customer.
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Mission Statement

We strive for quality and reliable accreditation to domestic and nternational standards by engaging the customer as a partner and providing evaluation compliance with these standards by assessing people, skill, and knowledge.
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Quality Policy

ACLASS is committed to providing recognized, competent, efficient, affordable, and openly available organizational accreditation and assessment services to various national and international standards in a timely manner with the highest integrity. ACLASS will give its customers the best accreditation and assessment services possible while helping its customers stay focused on achieving and providing value from their services.
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About ACLASS

Our strategy is to treat the customer as a partner while maintaining the integrity of the standard. ACLASS helps not only our customers, but our customers' customer recognize the value and importance of ISO accreditation. We help our customers enhance their business and technical performance by citing opportunities for improvement during our assessments, while ensuring the competence of testing and calibration laboratories meet the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025, inspection bodies meet the requirements of ISO/IEC 17020 and reference material producers meet the requirements of ISO Guide 34. ACLASS assessors understand and practice a congenial approach to assessments and are technically competent. Coupled with ACLASS' competent assessors, our strong customer service and experience make ACLASS the number one choice for ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEC 17020 and RMP accreditation. ACLASS works together with our customers to build technical competence and quality management assurance in the industry. ACLASS customers learn from each assessment areas where they may want to focus their technical competence and/or quality efforts. Whether it is in staff training, measurement uncertainty, documentation, customer satisfaction or feedback, our customers continually improve upon their management and technical system as a result of each ACLASS assessment. ACLASS accreditation gives our customers the tools to explain the value and benefits of ISO accreditation to their customers. Moreover, ACLASS accreditation allows our customers to mature their thinking of accreditation and continually use accreditation as a training tool and confidence builder for both their technical and quality management systems.
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ACLASS' Involvement in the Accreditation and Laboratory Community

ACLASS is a member of and actively participates in APLAC (Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation), IAAC (Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation) and ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation). We circle the globe participating in meetings, workshops and seminars sponsored by these co-operations. Involvement in these regional co-operations by ACLASS helps shape policy and guidance for laboratory accreditation.

ACLASS enthusiastically supports the use of proficiency testing activities in the accreditation process, which is why ACLASS participates in international proficiency testing/inter-laboratory comparison programs sponsored by APLAC and the IAAC. Recent participation in these international comparison programs by ACLASS customers included electric resistance standards, short gauge blocks, mass and chocolate powder. Participation by ACLASS customers in these international comparison programs may meet the ACLASS requirements for proficiency testing/inter-laboratory comparisons.

Attending industry conferences is a vital tool for ACLASS to stay abreast of industry trends, new technologies and methods, equipment and manufacturers and new ideas. Conferences where ACLASS participates include NCSLI, MSC, PITTCON, Quality Expo, Automotive Testing Expo, ACIL, and the Aerospace Testing Expo.

ACLASS actively participates within the National Conference of Standards Laboratories (NCSLI), whose mission is to advance technical and managerial excellence in the field of metrology, measurement standards, conformity assessment, instrument calibration, as well as test and measurement, through voluntary activities aimed at improving product and service quality, productivity, and the competitiveness of member organizations in the international marketplace. ACLASS participation includes participation on committees and presentations at the NCSLI annual conference

ACLASS participates in the Measurement Science Conference, whose mission is to promote advancement in measurement science. ACLASS participation includes being technical session coordinators and technical workshop hosts as well as presenting papers for the Measurement Science Conference.

ACLASS is actively involved in the American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL), which is a trade association representing independent, commercial scientific and engineering firms. ACLASS actively serves on committees to improve both the accreditation industry and the testing laboratory community.

ACLASS is actively involved in the American Society for Quality (ASQ), which is the world's leading authority on quality. With more than 100,000 individual and organizational members, this professional association advances learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide.

ACLASS is also actively involved with the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), which has more than 1,500 member companies that include North American, European and Asia-Pacific OEMs and suppliers to the automotive industry with combined annual sales of more than $850 billion. AIAG's primary goals are to reduce cost and complexity within the automotive supply chain and to improve speed-to-market, product quality, employee health-and-safety and the environment.
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ACLASS Recognition

ACLASS as signed the ILAC, APLAC and IAAC Multilateral Recognition Arrangements (MRAs). Thse arrangements facilitate the acceptance of test and calibratin data between ACLASS accredited laboratories and the international community.  For more informaiton on the recognition and acceptance of ACLASS click on the 'Recognition of ACLASS' tab.

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ACLASS Executive Team

Keith Greenaway - Vice President
Mr. Greenaway maintains a diverse background in business and law from previous professions before becoming President/CEO of ACLASS.  Upon the sale of ACLASS to ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board, Mr. Greenaway has remined and taken the role of Vice President. Since starting with ACLASS he has taken an active role within the accreditation industry. He serves as Treasurer of the Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC) and is a member of the Executive Committee.  He is active in the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (APLAC) and the International Laboratory Accreditaiton Cooperation (ILAC).

Roger Muse - Director, Sales & Marketing
Mr. Muse was previously a Senior Associate for Technology Catalysts International, a chemical and phamaceutical consulting company. His primary role was locate unique technologies for the company's pharmaceutical and chemical clients and facilite the licensing of intellectual property from small research organizations and university to major industry. His position required a strong understanding of efficient biochemical pathways and techniques to bypass typical intermediates by using advanced catalysts. He serviced several industries including over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, personal products & ingredients and polymer blends & alloys. Mr. Muse has a B.S. in Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry and an M.B.A with a specialization in Finance.

Dr. William 'Bill' Hirt - Senior Accreditation Manager / Program Manager - Testing
Dr. Hirt is a veteran of several organizations and technical arenas. Dr. Hirt has served in teaching, technical and management roles in a string of organizations including the University of Cincinnati, Purdue University's Biology and Chemical Engineering departments, St. Mary's College, US Industrial Chemicals gasohol program, two genetic engineering firms, Biotechnology R&D Manager for Seagram and Tropicana, Branch Manager for Eurofins Scientific serving the chemical and microbial testing needs of Cargill, P&G and Iams Pet Foods among others, and for an environmental consulting firm. Dr. Hirt is an ISO/IEC 17025 lead assessor and has served as an evaluator of accreditation bodies for the Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC). He has completed NACLA evaluator training and ISO/IEC 17011 evaluator training sponsored by the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation (APLAC). Additionally, he is an IRCA registered auditor of ISO 9001 and 14001 systems. Dr. Hirt is the author of 13 technical publications and has been a speaker at several technical forums. 

Mike Weisrock - Program Manager - Calibration
Mr. Weisrock maintains a background in physics and chemistry.  He previously founded a company that provided laboratory and field calibration services in physical, dimensional and testing areas.  Since year 2000 Mr. Weisrock was performing assessments to ISO/IEC 17025 before joining the ACLASS team.

Teresa Burgess - Program Manager - Calibration

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ACLASS Accreditation Council (AC)

The ACLASS Accreditation Council has the responsibility to provide advice on policies, goals and requirements for protecting the integrity of the ACLASS accreditation process. The AC is comprised of leading industry experts and interested parties ranging from government to private industry. The ACLASS AC was established to ensure the integrity and impartiality of the ACLASS accreditation process as well as to formulate and supervise the implementation of policy for operations of ACLASS. The AC delegates authority to committees or individuals to undertake defined technical activities and oversees the accreditation system, process and integrity of ACLASS. The AC further oversees the assessor and accreditation review panel approval system and represents the areas ACLASS services and provides specific technical input for accreditation requirements.
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