Aiming for Absolute Precision Calibration

Calibration is Key to Quality

For manufacturing industries, which depend on how well products are made, calibration is the key to consistently outperforming competitors on quality.

Without re-calibration, end-of-line test equipment – such as at a mobile phone factory – can appear to function correctly while concealing decaying accuracy. And inaccurate tests lead to customer warranty complaints, damage to the manufacturer’s reputation, and expensive recall – along with unplanned production downtime.

Within a large organization, the design, engineering, production, and validation time of any product – from a truck to a satellite – depend on reliably relevant, timely, and accurate measurement data. Any discrepancies cause friction and delays, so the unquestionable, uniform baseline that calibration provides assists hugely with data confidence.

With less questioning, troubleshooting, and reworking, time-to-market is inevitably reduced. Meanwhile, efficiency is enhanced by fewer design changes and less wastage from false rejections of passable products.

Why do people skip calibrations?

Technological overconfidence

Some people think that digital instruments don’t need it, but they all do.

Legal ignorance

Some don’t realize that to measure accordingly to ISO standards or national standards, their instruments must be calibrated regularly.

Cost

Calibration requires downtime, but to skip it can create a false economy. According to a survey commissioned by Advanced Technology Services in 2008, the average cost of poor quality calibration for US manufacturers is $1,734,000 each year. Looking only at large companies that generate revenues of over $1 billion per year, the annual average is $4,000,000.

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