LEDs in the BYK-Gardner spectro-guide.
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Every year or so, it comes time to send in your instrumentation to be calibrated per your quality control protocols. You receive your instrument back along with a traceable certificate. Or, you may even have a Field Service Engineer visit you on-site to calibrate and certify your instruments. But, that certificate that you hold in your hand, that you file away, what does it mean for you?
Calibration.
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Calibration and Preventative Maintenance
ISO 9000 requires routine calibration and testing to ensure that your instrumentation is operating properly and that your results are accurate. Using an instrument that is not up-to-date on calibration and preventative maintenance, can result in a waste of your valuable time and money as a consequence of improper quality control of your product. When you send your instrument back for Calibration and Preventive Maintenance, BYK-Gardner:
- Cleans the optics.
- Checks all functions.
- Updates the firmware.
- Adjusts measured values by using reference standards, if required.
- Includes a certificate that is traceable to international standards.
A regular schedule of calibration and preventative maintenance makes sure your instrument produces accurate results not only for one instrument but all your instruments at various locations around the world.
Accreditation
BYK-Gardner has multiple accredited Calibration Labs with ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by ANAB, of the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board. What does all this alphabet soup mean for you? It means that you can send your instruments to BYK-Gardner with confidence, knowing that they are held to the highest standards. It means that you can trust BYK-Gardner knowing that their technicians and their test methods are competent. It means that you can feel assured in the quality and management systems BYK-Gardner uses to certify your instrumentation to ISO/IEC 17025.
The following table shows the parameters and equipment that BYK-Gardner has been accredited to calibrate, as well as the BYK-Gardner locations that are accredited for each.
| Parameter/Equipment | Location(s) |
| Gloss | Columbia, MD USA Geretsried, Germany Terrassa, Spain Saint-Ouen Cedex, France Shanghai, China Longford, Heathrow, UK Santo André – SP, Brazil Osaka, Japan |
| Color / Spectrophotometer |
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| Clarity | |
| Transmission | |
| Haze | |
| wave-scan / DOI |
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| Thickness byko-test units |
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| Thickness micro-tri-gloss µ |
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| Optical Radiation- Illuminance |
Columbia, MD, USA |
| Optical Radiation – color temperature |
Columbia, MD, USA |
| Density | Columbia, MD, USA Geretsried, Germany |
| Kinematic Viscosity | Columbia, MD, USA Geretsried, Germany |
BYK-Gardner Service and Repair
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