Machine calibration is a process during which a piece of machinery is adjusted to ensure its accuracy and precision. It is performed on new equipment to show that the advertised accuracy is correct as well as on used equipment to update it and keep the machine running at certain standards.
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Furness ControlsIndian Trail, NC 800-898-5325 Furness Controls brings many new measuring instruments to the market each year from their full manufacturing facilities with assembly and test areas and a shop for producing critical components, including cutting edge machine calibration. With worldwide sales and service facilities, Furness Controls draws upon a huge pool of experience in providing the best capabilities available.
Greenslade & Company Inc.Fort Worth, TX 800-435-2657 Greenslade & Company is a high-tech provider of superior machine calibration to industrial firms throughout the United States. Greenslade's facilities have state-of-the-art equipment that uses proprietary software to produce cutting edge solutions and is accredited to ISO 17025 by the American Association of Laboratory Accreditation under registration number 1032-1. Call Greenslade & Co. today!
Cal Lab Co., Inc.South Holland, IL 800-373-1759 With facilities that are ISO/IEC 17025:2005 Accredited & ANSI/NCSL Z540.3-2006 Accredited, Cal Lab is your source for precision machine calibration capabilities that will keep your company up to date with today's no nonsense guidelines. Please call Cal Lab's experienced personnel today or find out more information on Cal Lab's many affordable benefits listed on its comprehensive website.
MTC ControlsBrooklyn, NY 718-389-8110 For machine calibration capabilities you can trust in, turn to the experienced professionals at MTC Controls of Brooklyn, New York. MTC's variety of superior qualifications is guaranteed to keep your machinery and business up and running in accordance to the ever-changing guidelines and for the right price! For excellence, choose MTC Controls-you'll be happy you did.
Precision Labs, Inc.Lancaster, CA 661-729-8100 After starting out from scratch over 15 years ago, Precision Labs, Inc. has become one of the leading providers of precision machine calibration capabilities. With nearly 6000 square feet, Precision Labs continues to find more ways to expand and its growing team of hardworking and talented employees stand together to tackle your next challenge. Please call Precision Labs today!
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Over time, a machine's performance degrades due to the wear and tear of industrial use. Vibrations, repetitious movements and pollutants can have a negative impact on the accuracy of machinery; calibration readjusts it so that it operates at the same level that is identified by the dial, screen, gauge or other indicator. Calibration is a comparison between a measurement of a known magnitude and a measurement taken from the machine that is being calibrated. The difference is observed and then the technician makes the necessary changes and adjustments before measuring again to ensure that the values are identical. The calibration process is important to many industries and companies because the accurate functioning of the machine is central to their business. A machine that incorrectly displays the speed or applied weight may damage the operator, the product or itself. A mistake in one machining process may impact many others because equipment is often used in total systems. Machine calibration is performed on the vast majority of machines and equipment in every industry.
Machine calibration, alignment and adjustment keep production costs low because they help ensure that the machine will perform as it is supposed to. If a boring machine makes a hole that is not centered correctly, the bolt and nut that are meant to hold the pieces together will be off and then the part could be structurally unsound. In other instances, the sides of a product may not be square or the top and bottom are not parallel. In these cases, machine calibration is the solution. A trained technician performs the calibration by attaching a device that is able to produce a correct reading to contrast the measurement of the machine. Precision step gauges, ball bars or lasers are used to perform linear accuracy, straightness and angularity checks for calibration. Because of the wide variety of machines that are used to perform hundreds of tasks, many different kinds of calibration services and calibration devices exist including subgroups like pressure or load cell calibration. Machines can be calibrated to correct linear, rotary and trunnion positioning, axial straightness, diagonal laser performance, surface flatness, servo response, geometrical rolling, spindle squareness and more. The technician who performs the calibration usually completes a summary report and certificate to show that the machine has been calibrated to industrial and national standards.
