In manufacturing, calibration is indispensable—there’s no way around it. Over time, tooling and measuring equipment inevitably lose accuracy. Calibration ensures that your tools and process instruments meet stringent global and national standards, minimizing costly mistakes and ensuring traceability.
Why Calibrate?
Accurate calibration ensures that your measurement tools are functioning correctly and delivering precise results. Without proper calibration, your business could face serious consequences such as product rework, costly recalls, increased downtime, and even legal issues due to non-compliance and lack of traceability.
Consistent calibration safeguards the quality of your production and directly affects both your internal processes and the satisfaction of your end customers. Regular professional calibration provides peace of mind, ensuring that your assembly tools are operating at optimal accuracy.
Tool Calibration: Reducing Defects and Enhancing Quality
Tool calibration can be carried out either on-site or at one of our accredited calibration centers, depending on customer preferences. Performed by highly skilled calibration technicians, your process instruments will undergo a series of professional torque, angle and force calibrations that fulfill global and national standards.
The Atlas Copco Tool Calibration package includes:
- Functional tests before calibration begins.
- Calibration with certified reference tools.
- Necessary adjustments to ensure accuracy.
Accredited Quality Assurance Calibration: Securing Your Process
Calibration of measurement equipment is a fundamental step in quality assurance, reducing rework and potential liability. Like our tool calibration services, Accredited Quality Assurance Calibration is conducted by experienced professionals, either on-site or in our ISO 17025-accredited laboratories.
ISO 17025 accreditation is the gold standard for leading calibration services, and Atlas Copco is no exception. Our technicians ensure that your facility’s tools maintain the accuracy and traceability required by industry standards. We recommend performing this calibration annually, or as specified by the plant's Quality department.
The service includes:
- Pre-calibration functional testing.
- Precise calibration and any necessary adjustments.
- A detailed calibration certificate stored for a minimum of 10 years, ensuring compliance and traceability for future audits or legal needs.
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Key Benefits of Atlas Copco Calibration Services
When you choose Atlas Copco, you’re investing in:
- Compliance with all relevant regulations, national and global standards
- Improved production quality assurance and reduced rework and rejects
- Enhanced customer satisfaction with fault-free products
- Peace of mind during audits, thanks to documented traceability
- Protection from costly legal claims and recalls.
Whether you opt for our Tool Calibration or Accredited Quality Assurance Calibration, our experienced technicians provide top-tier services that ensure your production process remains compliant, safe, and efficient. These services directly contribute to improved quality, operator safety, and cost savings for your facility.
Conclusion
Calibration is far from trivial—it is a vital component of modern manufacturing. The benefits of proper calibration include quality assurance, regulatory compliance, reduced liability, and increased customer satisfaction. The consequences of neglecting calibration could be serious, such as product quality defects, costly recalls, and legal issues.
Protect your business from these risks, ensuring precision, safety, and peace of mind. Learn more about Atlas Copco’s comprehensive calibration services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the meaning of calibration?
In measurement technology and metrology, calibration is the determination and documentation of the deviation between the reading of a measuring instrument and the value indicated by a higher-level reference device. More simply said, calibration is the comparison of two values when one of these values is already known.
How often should I calibrate tools?
Based upon the international guideline from ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation), the calibration interval depends on frequency of usage, required accuracy, and internal quality requirements. If there is no regulatory requirement, we recommend calibration every 12 months. In many safety-critical or medical applications, the guidelines require an interval of 3 to 6 months.
What are common calibration lab standards? What is ISO 17025?
When considering calibration, you need to be sure that your tools and measuring equipment are in good hands. ISO 17025 is a standard defining competence for lab and field calibrations, and it is the core requirement to become an accredited calibration provider.
