Is monitoring of measurement equipment really necessary?
Management and monitoring of the equipment used serves the following purposes:
- Ensuring the maintenance of measurement equipment
- Use of only appropriate test equipment for the inspection of the conformity of products and processes to requirements
- Ensuring the required precision of test equipment (including of the reference instruments)
- Ensuring the traceability to higher-level calibration standards
- Avoidance of customer complaints due to incorrect measurement results
- Avoidance of rejection of functional products, or of acceptance of defective products for further processing or shipping
- Proof to customers and certification authorities of the conformity of test equipment monitoring systems to requirements
- Overview of all test equipment available/used
- Improvement of employee awareness with regard to performing tests and to treatment of equipment.