What is Calibration and Why is it So Important for Weighing Results?
All balances – no matter how sophisticated – are subject to environmental impacts and repeated use that can impact accuracy over time. Calibration helps to ensure accuracy in academic labs where inaccuracies can not only lead to costly rework but damage an institution’s reputation.
Greifensee, 1st February, 2018 – As described in the new white paper “Calibration: What Is It”, calibration helps you understand the behavior of a balance and is crucial to achieving precise results. It also ensures a weighing process meets quality and compliance requirements.
In the simplest terms, calibration compares a reference weight of a known mass with a balance’s measured value. The difference is a balance’s error. The question of whether results are sufficiently accurate depends on process risks, which form the basis of the calibration experience and ensure the measurement quality requirements of your institutional lab are met.
At the end of a calibration, a certificate that reports balance readings and compares them to the reference value is issued. The application of process tolerances results in a pass/fail statement, such as the kind contained in METTLER TOLEDO’s Accuracy Calibration Certificate (ACC).
In combination with METTLER TOLEDO’s Good Weighing PracticeTM (GWP®) Annex, the ACC helps you ensure that your balance is capable of producing sufficiently accurate results in its operational context. The ACC is based on the globally recognized EURAMET cg-18 calibration guideline.
Click here to download “Calibration: What Is It?” and learn more about how periodic calibration can help reduce your operating costs and safeguard your institution’s reputation.
About Mettler Toledo
Mettler Toledo is a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services. The Company is the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial and food retailing applications. METTLER TOLEDO also holds top-three market positions in several related analytical instruments and is a leading provider of automated chemistry systems used in drug and chemical compound discovery and development. In addition, the Company is the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of metal detection and other end-of-line inspection systems used in production and packaging and holds a leading position in certain process analytics applications.
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