Accredited Calibration : UNITED KINGDOM

A Summary of our UKAS Accreditation

Since first gaining British Calibration Service (forerunner to NAMAS and UKAS) accreditation in 1984, we have always ranked amongst the country's top echelon of Standards Laboratories and are authorized to provide some of the highest accuracy calibrations available outside of the National Physical Laboratory itself.

Collaboration with UKAS has established innovative process management, augmenting this technical leadership by enabling certification to be undertaken throughout the 1200 square metre facility as well as two mobile laboratories, utilizing thousands of items of test equipment. Such facilities are unique in Britain. These resources, including extensive use of ATE, maximize our capacity to cope with high volume, multivendor, fast turnaround or state-of-the-art equipment.

Features

• UK's largest accredited commercial facility for electrical calibration.
• Internationally accepted and recognized certificates, compliant with EA and ISO/IEC17025 requirements.
• Critical for other accredited test and calibration laboratories.
• Broad accredited electrical capability.
• Comprehensive reports provide confidence (of integrity) in the tested product's full specification.
• Service also available on-site in our Mobile Calibration Laboratories or, where suitable, in the customer's facility.

Highlights from our UKAS Schedule of Accredited (Best) Measurement Capability

The capability includes the following product-types:-

How the Accreditation Helps You

In addition to reviewing aspects of the quality system associated with testing, UKAS also examines and monitors technical proficiency, often co-opting the assistance of metrology experts from NPL. For equipment users complying with commercial or military quality standards (ISO9001, NATO AQAP, etc.) the onus for ensuring subcontractor technical competence is much simplified, minimizing the purchasing and QA overhead.

Our Process Assures Your Confidence

Our extensive accredited capability supports our practice of providing assurance in a product's full published specification through our comprehensive testing program. Our thoroughness ensures your confidence that your equipment will meet your full needs, not just at the tested points.

Certificates are designed for clarity and aid your understanding of the equipment's performance. To achieve this, data is provided "as-received" and, (if applicable) after corrective action -- refer to the Adjustment Dilemma article for an explanation the importance of this aspect. The certificates usually include measured values, uncertainties and specification limits (all in the same units), brief test descriptions and an unambiguous "in-spec" or "out-of-spec" statement.

Why do People Choose Accredited Calibration?

There are three predominant reasons that some customers opt for the reassurance of a UKAS certification:-

1. Those who themselves provide an accredited testing or calibration service and who must, therefore, obtain traceability from a "competent body".
2. Those seeking assurance in the technical validity of the calibration as conferred by national measurement experts and who need the utmost confidence in the attributed uncertainty. This could be because the item is their own reference standard from which in-house traceability is derived.
3. Where customers' own Quality departments have prescribed that a UKAS certificate is preferred or obligatory. This will generally result from recognition that UKAS' assessment can negate the responsibility for a detailed vendor audit exercise, greatly reducing the operating overhead associated with supplier appraisal.