Everywhere that you look there is a very good chance that you will see some form of gauging, monitoring or detecting device. In your home, in your car, at your work place and in the world surrounding you. Maybe you have wondered just how accurate, or reliable, these devices are. If the owners have used meter calibration services, the answer will be very accurate and reliable.
Some might argue that by fitting a new device, operators would get all the accuracy that they need. Although how long something could justify being classed as new would be open to interpretation. Also the costs of constantly replacing instruments and gauges on a frequent basis could be considered prohibitive.
Something that a lot of people fail to realise is that brand new devices might also require final adjustments. Maybe a customer needs a high degree of accuracy. An instrument fresh out of it's box will only be at the default settings that it left the factory with.
It is true that when something has just come from the assembly line everything will be a snug fit. This makes it possible that any tolerances can be set within quite a narrow range. As the device gets utilised components wear against each other, and the fit starts to lose some of that snugness. In effect it broadens that tolerance range. So now more adjustments are needed to keep that level of accuracy.
Take the water meter in your home as an example. Your bill is calculated on how much water you use. Your neighbor uses the same water company, and their bill also is calculated the same way. The two meters will have been set to the same tolerances, so that each will give an accurate recording of water usage.
Probably one of the major consumers of such measuring and monitoring devices will be modern industry. As you might imagine everything needs to be measured, monitored or recorded. All to a high specification of accuracy, largely due to safety concerns there can be no rough estimates.
Consider the safety aspect of something operating at high temperatures. The end result if things get too hot could often be quite catastrophic. So therefore the operators need to know that the instrumentation and gauges that they are reading will be displaying properly and accurately.
Even when you go to your doctor you can be confronted with devices for measuring things. They take your temperature and then measure your blood pressure. It wouldn't be ideal if those readings were not reliable. If that is just your local doctor's practice, consider how much bigger the concerns would be in a hospital.
There will be some who question how the devices used to measure other devices are monitored. A similar process is used, but on a more regular basis. There are even some items which get dispatched to outside agencies. This means that independent scrutiny and verification can be conducted. Hopefully this will have given you a slight insight into the world of meter calibration services. You will also appreciate what that device has had to go through to get that little tag that you had previously failed to notice.
Some might argue that by fitting a new device, operators would get all the accuracy that they need. Although how long something could justify being classed as new would be open to interpretation. Also the costs of constantly replacing instruments and gauges on a frequent basis could be considered prohibitive.
Something that a lot of people fail to realise is that brand new devices might also require final adjustments. Maybe a customer needs a high degree of accuracy. An instrument fresh out of it's box will only be at the default settings that it left the factory with.
It is true that when something has just come from the assembly line everything will be a snug fit. This makes it possible that any tolerances can be set within quite a narrow range. As the device gets utilised components wear against each other, and the fit starts to lose some of that snugness. In effect it broadens that tolerance range. So now more adjustments are needed to keep that level of accuracy.
Take the water meter in your home as an example. Your bill is calculated on how much water you use. Your neighbor uses the same water company, and their bill also is calculated the same way. The two meters will have been set to the same tolerances, so that each will give an accurate recording of water usage.
Probably one of the major consumers of such measuring and monitoring devices will be modern industry. As you might imagine everything needs to be measured, monitored or recorded. All to a high specification of accuracy, largely due to safety concerns there can be no rough estimates.
Consider the safety aspect of something operating at high temperatures. The end result if things get too hot could often be quite catastrophic. So therefore the operators need to know that the instrumentation and gauges that they are reading will be displaying properly and accurately.
Even when you go to your doctor you can be confronted with devices for measuring things. They take your temperature and then measure your blood pressure. It wouldn't be ideal if those readings were not reliable. If that is just your local doctor's practice, consider how much bigger the concerns would be in a hospital.
There will be some who question how the devices used to measure other devices are monitored. A similar process is used, but on a more regular basis. There are even some items which get dispatched to outside agencies. This means that independent scrutiny and verification can be conducted. Hopefully this will have given you a slight insight into the world of meter calibration services. You will also appreciate what that device has had to go through to get that little tag that you had previously failed to notice.
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