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Weight and density are crucial measurements for research, production, and testing. If your laboratory balances and industrial scales are reading incorrectly, your research results may be in question and your production quantities skewed.

Balances react to temperature, pressure, and gravitational changes. Moving your balance from one location to another may require recalibration.

To sustain the precision of these weighing instruments, keep them calibrated according to accurate comparison standards. Ensure your balance gets calibrated with a certified weight to prove traceability of measurement and follow the manufacturer’s recommendation for regular calibration cycles.

InnoCal can customize test points to your specific needs including those dictated by USP. Along with balances and scales, we can also calibrate your calibration masses and check weights in accordance to ASTM E617-2013.

Through a partnership with top manufacturers such as Cole-Parmer and Davis Instruments, InnoCal can offer time-saving advantages such as:

·    The instruments you order can arrive calibrated and ready for use immediately
·    Equipment is in stock for quick delivery, faster use
·    For out-of-tolerance or unrepairable instruments, you receive trade-in/replacement discounts
·    No need to shop multiple vendors—order your equipment and calibration from one source

InnoCal is an authorized and stocking distributor for the following popular brands through Cole-Parmer: Oakton®, Vaisala, Extech®. For Davis Instruments, InnoCal is the authorized and stocking distributor for:  Fluke®, BK Precision®, WIKA®.

Find out more! Contact InnoCal for more information about the equipment you need calibrated or precalibrated.

If you’re like most managers, you have a variety of equipment to keep calibrated, serviced, and in compliance. From thermocouples and thermometers to pressure meters to manometers, you keep track of when the equipment needs to go out and where it goes.

When you’re sending equipment out to multiple labs for calibration, this process gets more complicated. And headaches increase when relied-upon equipment doesn’t arrive back in time. You have to check your documents for each lab and make multiple contacts, which exhausts your time.

An easier way is to find an accredited lab that can handle all, or at least most, of your equipment. A lab that provides online tracking also simplifies the practice of following up—in fact, it may eliminate some of it.

To save time and unnecessary effort, consolidate your calibrations to one service provider. Use ISO17025 accredited laboratories who provide accredited calibration certificates for equipment to ensure an unbroken traceability chain. 

InnoCal conducts calibration and repair services for thousands of test and measurement instruments. We have invested in the best technicians and NIST-traceable standards so we can deliver the accurate measurements you need while calibrating all of your assets.

Are your balances in balance? Do your scales read accurately? When weighing materials for research, testing, or production, the measurement you record will affect critical process parameters. If this reading is off, even just a little, the precision and efficiency of your work is now in question.

Ensure the validity of your weight and mass measurements with regular calibration. For balances, this means either using the services of a metrology lab or balance masses.

Using Balance Masses to Calibrate Balances

Electronic balance masses are cylindrical shaped for easy stacking on balance weighing pans. Precision analytical masses feature two-piece construction and consist of a special austenitic alloy for high precision and stability. Use the guidance below to select the best calibration class for your application.

UltraClass—With weight tolerances 50% greater than ASTM E617 Class 1 tolerances, these weights combine high precision with the advantage of two-piece construction (1 g and larger), avoiding costly replacement issues associated with one-piece weights
ASTM Class 1—Appropriate for calibrating high-precision analytical balances with a readability as low as 0.1 mg to 0.01 mg
ASTM Class 4—For calibration of semi-analytical balances and for student use
NIST Class F—Primarily used to test commercial weighing devices by state and local weights and measures officials, device installers, and service technicians. Class F weights may be used to test most accuracy Class III scales, all scales of Class III L or IIII, and scales not marked with a class designation
ASTM Class 6—Meet the specifications of OIML R 111 Class M2

To sustain the precision of weight and mass measurements, InnoCal maintains highly accurate comparison standards. We can customize test points to your specific needs including those dictated by USP. Along with balances and scales, we can also calibrate your calibration masses and check weights.

In the electronics, plastics, construction, and chemical industries—or any in which push/pull measurements are required—a digital or mechanical force gauge helps determine a product’s strength.

These tools are used by manufacturers and material testers particularly in new product development and design. Textiles manufacturers may test the strength of cloth or packagers may determine the reliability and stability of their containers with these devices. The products they are manufacturing need to be able to stand up to repeated use and meet the requirements of their intended purposes.

With critical applications like these, it is essential that compression and tension measurements are accurate. Maintaining this accuracy requires regular calibration. This ensures that the products in development are produced at a high, consistent level of quality.

From force gauges to torque wrenches to torque testers to durometers, InnoCal has the calibration standards to keep your torque and force equipment operating correctly.

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