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Changed view on calibration

Traditionally, calibration has been considered a technical value: as one of the technical issues to be managed by experts in measurement. However, in today’ s world of the new economy, a new paradigm has emerged. The calibration is usually treated the same as maintenance, HSE and other supporting functions (mostly considered to be lateral, secondary functions) but in a more holistic and comprehensive way. This approach has been crystallized through the consideration of the overall physical asset life-cycle and its influence on the value of the company: its financial effects measured through the asset’ s functionality and the business risks. In that perspective, the calibration becomes an equal and important activity, which should not be viewed exclusively through a technical prism, but also through an economic dimension of added value, lost production costs, HSE risks, resources utilization and allocation. Another critical contributor in the calibration is the ownership issue observed through the tension between production and calibration personnel over equipment available for calibration at a certain time. Putting so many confronted factors together, a complex situation in making decisions about a physical asset and its calibration may occur. Each of us has witnessed such a situation at some point of time. It can be perceived as a little battle between priorities: asset utilization, costs, quality or calibration. What should be the driving force of the highest value in making economy effective decisions? What is of utmost importance for the overall life-cycle? How to balance between overall costs and benefits and external risks, measured in terms of quality, disposition of publicity, loosing good-will...

Calibration; Life-cycle; Measuring equipment; quality

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