NTEP Column
NTEP’s Changing Landscape
As with all organizations, there is an ever-changing environment or landscape created by individuals moving to new companies or retiring. These events also impact NTEP. This article will share some of these changes with you and let you know how NTEP is adapting to ensure that we provide industry with continued and excellent services for both NTEP Evaluations and VCAP Audits. The New York Laboratory recently lost its evaluator for weighing devices through retirement, and the evaluator in the Maryland Laboratory accepted a position with a different organization. These changes effectively closed these laboratories. In addition, the California Laboratory has been 100% focused on the certification of Electric Vehicle Fueling Stations, removing them from the NTEP pool of evaluators. To compensate for these changes, NTEP has 1) relied heavily on the capabilities of the Ohio Laboratory, 2) expanded the number of field evaluations performed by Jeff Gibson, NTEP Specialist, 3) hired Ed Payne, retired evaluator from the Maryland Laboratory, as a part-time employee to perform field evaluations on weighing devices, and 3) hired Richard Shipman, former quality manager with Rice Lake Weighing Systems, as a part-time VCAP Auditor. These changes have allowed NTEP to maintain our previous level of services. This has taught us that we need to constantly look ahead to recognize changes that are coming and develop a plan to ensure these changes do not impact our customers’ needs and expectations of the NTEP process. To do this, the NCWM and NTEP have taken a significant step into the future by deciding to build and operate an evaluation laboratory. The building will be located in Lincoln, Nebraska, serving as the new NCWM headquarters and NTEP laboratory. We anticipate opening the doors for operation in the 3rd quarter of 2024.
Darrell Flocken NTEP Administrator
I want to point out that this facility along with the Ohio and California Laboratories will bring NTEP back up to full operation for our weighing customers. The North Carolina, and Maryland Laboratories along with Allen Katalinic, field evaluator for measuring devices, will continue their focus on our measuring customers. The NCWM and NTEP Staff are very excited about having our own facility. Stay tuned for more information about the new facility in future articles.
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2024 Issue 1
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