Calibration plays a vital role in ensuring accuracy, reliability, and safety in various industries. Common Calibration elements include Temperature, Humidity, Pressure, Flow, Electrical, Radio Frequency, flow and humidity. A device that calibrates other equipment, known as a calibrator, is uniquely designed with a built-in calibration standard and helpful features to simplify the calibration process. When combined with calibration software, the calibrator enables users to automate the calibration procedure and calculate calibration uncertainty, leading to increased efficiency and reduced procedural errors. Specialized machinery used in scientific discovery, industrial manufacturing, and international trade heavily relies on regular calibration to prevent failures during production and ongoing usage.

Over time, a calibrator may experience drift or wear, necessitating regular calibration using more accurate reference standards, following the 4:1 ratio rule ensuring accuracy throughout the calibration process, resulting in the most precise calibration standards.

Periodic calibration is often seen as a smart business investment with a high return on investment (ROI) as it eliminates production waste, such as recalls resulting from items produced outside design tolerances. Moreover, calibration helps identify and address potential issues in manufacturing system components before they cause failures, thus averting costly downtime in factories. By preventing the distribution of faulty products, calibration reduces both tangible and intangible costs while enhancing safety and product quality.

FLUKE’s Triple Point of Water, a Primary Standard in Temperature Calibration, is the perfect solution to problems of backwards traceability when thermometers are found to be out of specification. Many of Ireland’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Device manufacturers use the Fluke TPW to verify the accuracy of their thermometer probes on a weekly or monthly basis. It is a simple one-point check to ensure no drift has occurred.

Fluke’s Triple Point Of Water Is Perfect To Verify Probe Accuracy

MET/TEAM Express is a limited version of MET/TEAM® Test Equipment and Asset Management Software. It is an application designed for managing your calibration assets. With MET/TEAM Express, you can: 

• Manage all aspects of your calibration operation with one paperless solution 
• Improve productivity and reduce operating costs 
• Maintain compliance with regulatory standards 
• Configure and customize for your business rules 
• Report to meet a wide range of requirements 
• Schedule maintenance events 
• Perform batch receiving 
• Create, track and close work orders 
• Track assets as they move through the lab 
• Create and print calibration reports 
• Maintain an audit trail 
• Manage shipping information 
• Track customer and vendor information 
• View business statuses 

• Create data templates and store procedures 

Like the full version of MET/TEAM, MET/TEAM Express is browser-based and includes SQL Server, Crystal Reports, and email automation. It has fewer features in work flow management, maintenance and configurations. In addition, the mobile, customer web portal and commerce modules are not available with MET/TEAM Express. 

Watch our video emphasising how easy it is to operate the Fluke 729 Handheld Pressure Calibrator, combining pressure generation using its built-in pump together with the loop power supply to the pressure transmitter. 

Steam Autoclaves are used to sterilise products inside vials, bottles, pouches and most pharmaceutical and medical equipment. During the sterilisation process, the temperature must reach a definite temperature for a determined period of time. TMI-Orion offers solutions to monitor temperature inside containers and temperature and pressure inside the autoclaves, with loggers of different sizes and various types of probes.