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Why Calibrate? There are many reasons to calibrate your equipment:
Liability: Your product may be relied upon in a way that may affect lives or property. Keeping your companies equipment calibrated is part of insuring the performance of your product.
Safety: There are industries that employ instruments and equipment whose use may be hazardous to workers. By keeping this equipment calibrated, you insure that the equipment is operating as predicted or expected.
Requirements: Your customers or industry quality standards may require that all of your equipment be calibrated.
Quality: The end consumers of your products expect consistency, accuracy, and precision. By keeping your equipment calibrated you are in compliance.
Maintenance: While your equipment is being calibrated batteries are replaced, accumulated dust and debris is removed, general condition is checked and any needed repairs documented and reported to you.
Accuracy: Without exclusion, accuracy is important to the quality, engineering and the manufacturing process. Why take unnecessary risks?
Repeatability: Keeping all of your equipment calibrated ensures that when you make a measurement with one piece of equipment, and then make it with a different piece of equipment, you get the same answer.
Maintains Value: If you own equipment, that is no longer in use , if it has been properly maintained, including regular calibration, it retains its marketable value should you decide to resale.
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