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Calibration Control Kit

Calibration, measurement risk and out-of-tolerance impact, with the gauge studies and capability tools behind them.

Get it freeThe Word and fillable PDF versions, sent to your work email.Read the handbook online

Start with the handbook: it sets out the workflow, who does what, the weekly rhythm, a 30-day setup plan and one worked example that runs through every tool below.

Page 1 of The Calibration Control Kit Handbook

The kit, step by step

Each tool is free on its own page, with its own worked example from the same story.

  1. 1
    Workbook · AQL-E01

    Calibration and Measurement Risk Register

    More than a calibration log: track every instrument's due date and status, what it measures and how far a failure would reach, and run an out-of-tolerance impact assessment the day a calibration fails.

  2. 2
    Workbook · AQL-E02

    Out-of-Tolerance Impact Assessment

    When a calibration comes back out of tolerance: record the event, trace every lot the instrument measured since it was last known good, judge each reading against its limits with the error, decide, tell the customer where needed, and close with the evidence.

  3. 3
    Workbook · AQL-E03

    MSA Planning Worksheet

    Decide which measurement systems need a study, which study, who runs it and by when, then track the verdicts, the conditions and the re-study dates in one plan.

  4. 4
    Workbook · AQL-E04

    Gage R&R Study Data Sheet

    Run a gauge repeatability and reproducibility study by the average and range method: up to three operators, three trials and ten parts, with every result, the published constants and the verdict worked out for you.

Read the handbook online

All 22 chapters are free to read on the site. Start with the overview.

  1. 1Why calibration systems fail audits
  2. 2The kit and how the tools connect
  3. 3The calibration control workflow
  4. 4Who does what
  5. 5Building the equipment register (E01)
  6. 6Calibration sources and certificates
  7. 7Setting and adjusting intervals
  8. 8Between calibrations: checks, handling and conditions
  9. 9When a calibration fails: the impact assessment (E02)
  10. 10Proving fitness: measurement system analysis (E03, E04)
  11. 11Measurement uncertainty and decisions near the limit
  12. 12Software, CMM programs and test equipment
  13. 13Records that hold up
  14. 14The weekly and monthly rhythm
  15. 15Measures that matter
  16. 16Setting it up in thirty days
  17. 17Worked example: the same instruments through the whole kit
  18. 18For your general manager: one page
  19. 19Quick reference
  20. 20Situations we meet often
  21. 21The kit at a glance
  22. 22Where the kit touches AS9100D

The problem it solves

Calibration looks like the easiest part of a quality system: a list, a sticker, a certificate. It is also one of the most reliable sources of audit findings, because the list answers only one question (is it in date?) and the auditor asks three more: what did this instrument measure, what did you do when it failed, and how do you know it is good enough for that tolerance? This handbook is the operating manual for the Calibration Control Kit. It sets out one workflow from receiving an instrument to retiring it, who does what, which tool to use at each step, how to handle an out-of-tolerance result, when a gauge study is needed, the weekly and monthly rhythm, and how to set it all up in thirty days without buying new software.

Who uses it

Quality managers and calibration coordinators who own the measuring equipment system; quality engineers who run gauge studies and impact assessments; the general manager who sponsors it.

When

When calibration findings keep coming back; when an out-of-tolerance result has no product assessment; when a customer asks for gauge studies behind key characteristics; when you take over a quality system; or a quarter before a surveillance or recertification audit.

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