For manufacturers, keeping production efficient and maintaining profitability are necessary to stay in business. Whether the process or production line stalls or completely shuts down due to equipment that is out of calibration, the costs add up. The equipment used to produce goods must be accurate and precise to reduce the risk of failures.
Maintaining calibration intervals can be a type of preventative maintenance to ensure consistent accuracies. With regular calibration service that is NIST-traceable, the threat of production breakdowns diminishes.
Equipment Calibrations for Manufacturers
The following is a partial checklist of equipment that manufacturers’ use that may be due for calibration or should be part of a calibration program:
o Flow such as flowmeters, flow controllers, and flow calibrators
o Pressure including manometers, gauges, pressure meters, vacuum gauges, pressure calibrators, and more
o Electrical/electronics such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, clamp meters, power supplies, calibrators, megohmmeters, temperature controllers, panel meters, and more
o Temperature/humidity including transmitters and data loggers, freezers, ovens, thermocouples, RTDs, thermistors, PRTs, humidity recorders, thermohygrometers, and more
o Dimensional such as calipers, thickness gauges, indicators, and more
o Other: vibration meters
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