Beamex Blog for Calibration Professionals

The key aspects of building a calibration system business case

Posted by Villy Lindfelt on Mar 01, 2016

An investment into calibration equipment and systems must be financially justified, just like any other business investment. But does a cheaper cost of purchase always mean a higher return on investment? Not necessarily. When building a business case for calibration calibration system investment, what may seem at the outset to be cheaper may not necessarily be so, if the evaluation is made from total or life cycle cost perspective instead of evaluating cost of purchase only.

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Topics: Calibration, Calibration process, Calibration software, calibration system, General

How often should instruments be calibrated?

Posted by beamexcalibration on Jan 07, 2016

One of the questions we get asked most frequently is how often a customer should calibrate his instruments. Unfortunately there is no straight answer to this, at least not one that would always be correct. Instead there is a list of variables that should be taken into account when deciding the calibration period for any measurement device. Let’s take a quick look at these variables.

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Topics: Measurement, Calibration, Calibrator, General

Top 5 reasons why companies update their calibration systems

Posted by beamexcalibration on Dec 07, 2015

As many as every fourth company in the process industry is at the moment considering to make some kind of update to its calibration process and systems. I admit, the number sounds quite high, but it is based on a specific study we recently made with the International Society of Automation (www.isa.org) concerning calibration process changes.

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Topics: ISA, Calibration, Calibration process, calibration system, Calibrator, General

How to calibrate a pressure switch

Posted by beamexcalibration on Nov 30, 2015

Update March 2020: We have a newer blog post on pressure switches, please find it here: Pressure Switch Calibration

We often get asked questions regarding the calibration of a pressure switch.
Since we didn’t have any videos on the topic on our YouTube channel, our dynamic duo from our US office, Roy and Ned, decided to make one.

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Topics: Pressure calibration, Pressure switch, Temperature calibration, Beamex MC6, Calibration, Calibrator, General