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.