What is calibration and why is it important? The answers to these questions can now be found in a new Mettler Toledo white paper.
The paper, entitled “What Is Calibration?” describes balance or scale calibration as an essential part of achieving accurate results.
Ignoring this important activity turns weighing into guesswork. This can cause problems for the process in which the measurement is used, damaging a company’s reputation for accuracy and quality.
No matter how high-quality a weighing instrument is, balances and scales become less reliable over time.
This is because daily wear-and-tear and external factors such as mechanical shocks degrade balance performance and accuracy.
Calibration uses a strict operational procedure to determine the difference between the instrument’s measured value and a test weight’s true value to determine if adjustment is necessary.
To download the white paper, visit this link.