Calibrating a caliper costs about $21. If an out of calibration caliper lets 1,000 defective parts be manufactured and the costs of re-inspection, sorting, rework, and scrap is about $5,000, the decision to NOT calibrate a gage or to extend the calibration interval costs over 200 times the cost of calibration. Calibration is about SAVING MONEY!

If defective parts reach a customer, the costs of not calibrating gages can be much greater!

Reduced Risks!At the same time costs are reduced so are other risks related to making products that do not meet specifications.

Customers expect or require calibrated gages. Customers expect good products and making good products requires accurate measurements.

Increasingly customers are making their expectations into contractual requirements. The simple act of a customer requiring conformance to a quality management system includes a requirement that gages be calibrated.

Product certifying agencies require calibrated gages. Agencies that certify or regulate products know that calibrated gages are an essential part of the processes that create products.

Agencies such as UL, FM, ASME, CSA, and others have requirements in their standards that gages be calibrated.

Certifying or regulatory agencies put their names and reputations on the line when they approve a company or product. They want to be sure the processes used to make the products/services they have endorsed are sound. Sound manufacturing processes include the use of accurate measuring devices. The only way to know that gages are measuring accurately is through calibration.