Abacus provides UKAS scale calibration services in-house for a wide range of companies in markets that include automotive, aerospace, MOD, general engineering and manufacturing.
Our laboratories are UKAS-accredited and licensed to BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for calibrations. We also hold BS EN/IEC ISO 9001:2015 certification and are members of UKWF. Our experienced calibration engineers can help you to determine which calibration procedures (and frequency) are required for your weighing and measuring equipment, so you remain compliant.
Why should you use the services of an accredited laboratory to calibrate your weighing equipment?
If your answer to any of the following questions is “yes”, then you should talk to our experts about UKAS scale calibration for your company.
• Do your customers require that you use accredited services?
• Are your business’ test results safety-critical (i.e. environments working with construction materials)?
• Is the environment your business operates in one where the accuracy of your test results can have legal repercussions?
• Do you receive poor results from your current suppliers?
• Do you want to reduce the risk in your supply chain?
• Does your business require your supplier to be technically competent?
The frequent UKAS calibration of your weighing equipment ensures that your balances, scales, and other measurement apparatus give consistent and reliable readings, in line with your quality certification and current legislation. With routine UKAS calibration by an experienced provider like Abacus, you will have the surety that all the measurements you take will be more accurate.
UKAS scale calibration determines the ongoing performance of your scale, measurement and weighing equipment over time. With routine equipment scale calibration and adjustment by our engineers (as necessary), you will measure safely, ensure quality compliance and avoid the significant and avoidable costs of taking inaccurate scale measurements.
Having your equipment serviced and calibrated on a regular basis will prolong its life, accuracy and usefulness.
The accuracy of measuring and weighing devices naturally degrades over time, due to normal wear and tare. This can also occur due to mechanical failure, contamination from hostile production environments and other factors. Having your equipment calibrated by a professional and approved provider like us, will ensure the ongoing accuracy of your device/s.
Good quality measurements can only be achieved if your weighing equipment is regularly calibrated. This will ensure your equipment will meet the requirements of your quality management registration and that you consistently achieve the level/standard of performance that your customers and suppliers demand. Don’t forget that the hidden costs and risks associated with uncalibrated equipment, far outweigh the costs of regular calibration.
UKAS background
UKAS is the only accreditation body that is recognised by government to assess, against the globally recognised standards, businesses that provide scale inspection services. UKAS combines the large amount of technical knowledge and expertise they have amassed over the years with scientific and technical specialists that operate across a wide range of inspection activities. On their website, they have a handy summary of why companies should choose a UKAS accredited laboratory like Abacus for the calibration of their equipment:
“The competence of the inspection body you appoint may be crucial to maintaining your reputation as a responsible organisation! It is therefore surprising that organisations are still tempted to use the services of inspection bodies whose competence has not been confirmed by an independent, authoritative third party.
So why leave something so important to chance? There is a tried and tested way of ensuring that an inspection body is up to the task, and that is by using one that has been accredited for the specific activity by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).”
The General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, also known as ISO/IEC 17025:2017, specifies the requirements that should be followed for reporting and evaluating uncertainties of measurement. The problems that are presented by the requirements vary in both nature and severity depending on the technical field of operation and whether the measurement being made is a calibration or test.
Calibration is usually characterised by the following facts:
• Repeated measurements are required to be made.
• There is uncertainty in the reference instruments that is provided at each stage of the calibration chain and start with the national standard.
• Customers will often be aware of their need for a statement of uncertainty that tells them that the instruments being used meet their requirements for accuracy.
As a result of these requirements, calibration laboratories like Abacus are used by companies to evaluate and report uncertainty in results. In UKAS accredited laboratories, the uncertainty evaluation is subjected to assessment by UKAS and is quoted on calibration certificates which we issue with all calibrations.
