Commercial calibration services

Many commercial calibration service companies now in business operate strictly by using procedures and calibration systems supplied by the instrument manufacturers. Some service companies may lack the technical depth and financial resources to contribute much more than business management and technician labor, concentrating on efficiency in turning out repaired and calibrated instruments. The accuracy and repeatability of today´s newer instruments offers a challenge to these laboratories to innovate methods of calibration which can make the most of these instruments as automated standards. A thorough understanding of Measurement Assurance [1] concepts is necessary to appreciate these methods. The Quality and Truth in Measurement [2] ideas advanced by the ANSI Z-1 Committee´s Quality Standard for Calibration systems can also serve to improve the calibration laboratory´s level of service. Forward looking commercial laboratories should participate in this activity, sharing with other laboratories sound ideas in the application of metrology fundamentals to improve the quality and accuracy of their own measurement and calibration operations.