Components of a Calibration Certificate

Traceability

The measurements that you make with your instruments are most useful if they can be related to other, similar measurements. Thus the mass of a sample measured in one country should give the same mass when measured in another country.

This helps companies to maintain manufacturing tolerances throughout the world so that end users can have confidence in the products that they buy. This is easily achieved when the measuring instruments in each country have both been calibrated using standards that are traceable to each other.

Calibration certificates must therefore indicate this traceability, either by listing the standards used in the calibration or by a statement to the affect that the measurements are traceable.

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