Balance or scale calibration is essential if you are to gather consistent and accurate readings. Using non-calibrated, or out of calibration industrial scales, can result in costly mistakes being made, with serious repercussions. From unnecessary downtime, product recalls and reworks, to process and quality audit issues, it’s your legal obligation to ensure equipment is calibrated regularly.
What factors cause a scale to give an inaccurate reading?
There are a number of factors that can affect the accuracy and precision of your industrial scales. This might be caused by simple wear and tear as a consequence of daily use, or by external factors like moving equipment, mechanical/electrical shocks or being located in a hazardous environment. All of these things can lead to the accuracy of your scales being compromised. Even the slightest variance, which may not be at first apparent, can develop over time and become a more serious problem.
You need to have confidence in your measurement results
Having your scales periodically calibrated by a UKAS Approved calibration provider, such as Abacus Weighing Services, can greatly enhance the lifetime of your balance or scale, and of course, give you the confidence that your measurements are wholly accurate.
Abacus’ laboratories are UKAS-accredited and licensed to BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for carrying out calibrations.
What is calibration?
In simple terms, it’s a comparison based on quantitative analysis. UKAS engineers will check a reading given on your balance or scale, with a reference weight. Any errors between the measured value (the reading), and the accurate value (the reference weight), will immediately become apparent and can be adjusted. A scheduled calibration visit will result in a certificate being produced. This quantifies that equipment has been checked and is within legal tolerances.
How often should weighing scales be calibrated?
How often you have your weighing scales calibrated will depend on a number of issues – frequency of use, where they are located, the nature of the environment, type of equipment such as floor-standing, platform style etc. The best way of determining the appropriate calibration period, is to ask your UKAS-approved provider. An experienced calibration engineer will help you decide what is relevant for your business.
Abacus Weighing Services is name that’s respected throughout the industrial weighing industry. Combing experience with first-class client services and product solutions, we are a business that thrives on getting it right for our customers.
