Rapier gauge and Calibration Management:

• Builds calibration requirements by equipment type, sub-type and equipment size
• Has built-in calibration procedures to guide technicians through the calibration tasks
• Records and stores the readings taken during calibration and validates them against documented tolerance limits
• Identifies out of tolerance conditions. Records adjustment and repair of equipment along with 'before' and 'after' readings
• Keeps track of any changes to calibration requirements and tolerance changes over time
• Holds standard calibration procedures, recall frequencies and tolerances for each equipment type, subtype and sizes while allowing controlled modification of tolerances at all levels
• Schedules calibrations and prints out recall notifications. Advance notice can be given to production areas when equipment is due for calibration
• Identifies equipment (for example gauge block sets) approved for use on calibration procedures and tracks these equipment items used for any given calibration
• Allows prediction of future calibration workload
• Allows the analysis of completed/failed historic calibration
• Tracks "parent/child" relationships (what dial indicators have been used on what fixtures during what time periods), automatically rescheduling child calibrations in line with the parent when association is created
• Caters for external calibration and/or external personnel performing calibration

  

From the registration of an equipment item to the point it is scrapped, Rapier controls, monitors and records the results of calibration carried out on the equipment

When the equipment is registered, standard calibration procedures for that type of equipment are generated; non-standard calibration or alterations to the 'norm' can be added at any time.

When the equipment goes into use in production a schedule of calibration is created for the equipment. At specific times the equipment will be called from production for calibration.

As the calibrations are carried out, results out of tolerance levels are flagged.

Equipment with no flagged results can be returned to production. Equipment with a flagged result is examined to determine the action to be taken. The calibration history of the equipment can be viewed to compare the result with previous results.

Equipment that is no longer usable will be scrapped. Re-usable equipment can be identified as in need to recalibration or repair.

Once any repair or recalibration is carried out, the equipment is recalibrated and the cycle begins again.