If you haven't yet, it's time to upgrade from Excel to GageList. Calibrating measuring instruments generates a ton of data that has to be managed, not only to maintain compliance with your industry standards, but to ensure the products you deliver perform as expected....
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Calibration of a New Instrument: Why It Matters
When a new measuring instrument arrives at your facility, you need to make sure it's properly calibrated before you put it into use. Calibration ensures that your gages produce accurate measurements; if they don't, you can't be confident that the goods you produce...
What is Calibration?
Calibration is the process of evaluating and adjusting a measuring instrument or system to ensure that it performs accurately and meets the desired specifications. This involves comparing the readings of the instrument to a known standard and making any necessary...
GageList Multi-Site Dashboard Delivers Unified Enterprise-Wide Calibration Management
Calibration is a critical aspect of quality control for many industries, including manufacturing, aerospace, healthcare and more. For large enterprise companies with multiple locations, managing a calibration program can be a complex and time-consuming effort. This is...
When Calibration Software Providers Won’t Show You Their Pricing Plans
Trying to find out the price of some calibration platforms is like trying to find that sock that disappeared when you did laundry last week. You look all over their website, you google it, you ask around, but you still can’t find it. Why is that? Could it be because...
How Calibration Impacts Your Culture of Quality
Quality has never mattered more than it does today. Brilliant manufacturing technologies are raising the bar on what can be accomplished, and customers have access to information about product quality they’ve never had before. Advances in measurement technology are...
5 Things Your Calibration Software Can’t Do (Unless it’s GageList)
Many gage management platforms fall short when it comes to adding real broad-based value beyond their basic utility. In fact, many almost seem designed to punish companies for trying to implement flexible calibration programs across their organizations. This article lists five important things most calibration platforms can’t do – but GageList can.
Revolutionizing Gage Management for Multi-Site Organizations
Managing calibration in multiple facilities is challenging on a number of levels, and until now, there have been few (if any) economical approaches that really address the problem. But now a simple, convenient master control panel solves the challenge of gage...
Adding Gage Calibration Management to Your Pandemic Response Plan
Does your pandemic response plan include your gage calibration management program? It should. PWC reported earlier this year that around 80% of manufacturers feared the COVID-19 pandemic would have a negative financial impact on their business. As the pandemic has...
Excel is the New Slide Rule
Bill Braun, Chief Information Officer for Chevron, calls Excel “the new slide rule.” Meaning it’s about as useful in today’s digital environment as a slide rule is for an engineer. Excel was developed in the early 80s, around the same time as some of the so-called...