Transforming Calibration: Automating Your Calibration Management Ecosystem with Beamex
Key points
It’s time to say goodbye to error-prone paper-based calibration!
While the pen might be mightier than the sword, in process industries pen-and-paper based calibration systems are a weak spot that is desperately in need of attention. Automating your calibration ecosystem saves time, reduces the risk of errors, and enables your organization to use calibration data for business benefits.
But what are the steps involved in implementing an automated process, and what support is on offer to help you succeed? Read on to find out.
In process industries, despite the fact that calibration is a business-critical process, engineers and technicians are still drowning in time-consuming, unreliable, and error-prone paper trails.
Automating and streamlining the calibration process is key to improving efficiency and avoiding errors, but for many going digital can feel like a daunting step.
What is the calibration ecosystem?
The calibration ecosystem is made up of everything that’s connected to the calibration process: calibration data, calibration management software, services, and expertise.
Expertise on the part of the calibration provider ensures that the system being delivered is compliant and meets the client’s unique requirements, that the roll out of that system goes smoothly, and that the personnel who will use the system are properly trained to do so.
In terms of hardware, it’s no surprise that calibrators are on the front line. In a modern, automated system this means documenting multifunction units that can provide a traceable reference, calculate measurement error, and even perform calibrations automatically and then document and store the results ready for uploading to the calibration software.
The software then handles tasks like calibration planning and scheduling, analysis and optimization of calibration frequency, and reporting – and can be integrated with maintenance management systems.
So, why do I need to automate my calibration infrastructure?
Automation can help process industry operators to thrive with the help of streamlined, accurate, and efficient calibration processes that ensure compliance and ultimately improve business performance. The headline benefits include:
- Better planning and decision making
- Ensured compliance
- Time and cost savings
- Full traceability with everything documented in one system
- Improved analysis capabilities
- More efficient and effective maintenance processes
- Robust quality assurance
OK, I’m sold. What’s next, and how can Beamex help me?
Whether you’re taking an instrument-based or a process-based approach to calibration, the first step is to classify all your devices as critical or non-critical, decide on their calibration intervals, and choose the right tools and methods for calibration.
After that comes staff training – for maintenance technicians, service engineers, process and quality engineers, and managers – to ensure you can get the best possible return on your investment. Finally, there’s execution and analysis, where staff carries out calibrations according to a carefully defined set of instructions and safety procedures and the results are analysed to identify where there’s room for improvement.
Beamex can act as a trusted advisor throughout the entire process of creating an automated calibration ecosystem, helping you to evaluate your current processes, identify areas for improvement, and ensure a smooth transition to a new and optimized process.
Beyond expertise, our solution offering covers on-premises calibration software, cloud-based calibration software, and a mobile application for paperless calibration, documentation, and inspection in the field. In addition, different calibration tools and various services are being offered
Beamex Ltd
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About us
A better way to calibrate – Since the establishment of Beamex in 1975, the company has focused strongly and consistently on calibration. Beamex is a technology and service company that develops, manufactures and markets high-quality calibration equipment, software, systems and services for the calibration and maintenance of process instruments. The company is a leading worldwide provider of integrated calibration solutions for improving quality and efficiency.
Beamex offers a comprehensive range of products and services—from portable calibrators to workstations, calibration accessories, calibration software, industry-specific solutions and professional services. Through Beamex’s global and competent partner network, Beamex’s products and services are available in more than 80 countries. Beamex is certified in accordance with the ISO 9001:2015 quality standard.
Over forty years of experience in manufacturing and developing calibration equipment and systems, close co-operation with customers that have high requirements and uncompromising quality standards, shared by the people working at Beamex, are things that have made Beamex’s calibration solutions world-class. As a proof of Beamex’s success, there are more than 10,000 companies worldwide utilising its calibration solutions.
Beamex’s ISO 17025 accredited calibration laboratory is accredited and approved by FINAS (Finnish Accreditation Service). FINAS is a member of all Multilateral Recognition Agreements / Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MLA/MRA) signed by European and other international organisations, i.e. European co-operation for Accreditation (EA), International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) and International Accreditation Forum Inc. (IAF).
What we do in a nutshell
We provide products and services for companies to streamline and digitalise their calibration processes.
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