Measuring instruments are indispensable tools in many fields. However, they require regular management and maintenance to ensure their reliability. Find out now how to look after your measuring instruments efficiently.
Here’s how to manage a fleet of measuring instruments:
1. Identify measuring instruments
Before you even start thinking about managing your fleet, it’s important to identify the measuring instruments in it. To do this, each instrument must have a unique identification number that differentiates it from other instruments. This can easily be done with barcode scanners. In fact, barcode scanners enable faster inventory tracking with fewer resources and greater accuracy than with paper-based inventory processes.
2. Calibrate measuring equipment
Calibration is a process that guarantees the conformity and reliability of your measuring equipment. It’s important to calibrate your equipment on a regular basis, as error tolerances become smaller with use. However, by following the various steps involved in calibrating your measuring instruments, you can ensure that they continue to deliver reliable, accurate results.
If measuring instruments are not calibrated regularly and, above all, correctly, they may no longer comply with legal standards. This can lead to incorrect measurements and/or data. This can lead you to make decisions based on incorrect information, with serious consequences.
The larger the company, the more measuring instruments it possesses, and the more difficult it is to calibrate. For this reason, calibration management software is strongly recommended to facilitate the task of corporate asset managers.
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3. Maintain and replace measuring instruments
First of all, when it comes to maintaining and servicing your measuring instruments, you need a preventive maintenance plan to avoid any failures or breakdowns that could disrupt the smooth running of your business, especially those that occur at the most inopportune moment.
The most important part of maintaining measuring instruments is to ensure that they are calibrated and tested regularly. This ensures that the equipment is working properly and producing accurate results. If you don’t calibrate or test your measuring instruments, there’s no way of knowing whether they’re working properly. This can lead to quality or safety problems for your customers.
Another key element of maintenance is keeping a stock of spare parts, so that repairs can be carried out quickly if necessary. If you don’t keep a stock of spare parts for your measuring instruments, it will take longer to repair them in the event of a breakdown, as you’ll have to wait for new parts to be delivered before carrying out repairs.
4. Use software to manage measuring instruments
The importance of using measuring instrument management software is that it will help you cut costs and save time. This is because the software is able to store all your data, so you can access it easily. This means you don’t have to enter everything manually into your system. Hector offers you an all-in-one software package that lets you better manage your fleet of measuring instruments to keep your business running smoothly.
You can also set reminders to calibrate instruments regularly to avoid sudden production problems or quality defects.