Why Calibrate My Bios Equipment? It’s A Primary Standard...

Everybody knows you don’t have to calibrate a primary standard, right? Well, . . . in a perfect world that would be true.

BUT, a Bios product is a machine. In fact, it’s a highly intricate piece of scientific equipment, made up of moving parts. Moving parts wear down, malfunction, get dirty and are inadvertently damaged. DryCal piston provers are subjected to particulate matter, all different gases and many strange atmospheric conditions. They get wet, are not handled as if they are fragile, and are also (gasp) dropped! Therefore, it is wise to verify the calibration annually to be sure it’s still perfectly accurate.

Our clients demand absolute precision, so we provide recalibration for our equipment in our own laboratory that is literally the most accurate commercial lab in the world for the calibration of air and gas flow in our ranges.

The Bios facility is accredited by NVLAP of NIST to ISO 17025, ANSI Z-540 and NIST Handbook 150. We are the only authorized service center for our Proven Dry Cal Technology equipment. Another ISO 17025 lab may perform a calibration – like goes to like. But remember, recalibration is NOT recertification. Only Bios can do that.

When you send your equipment in to us, it undergoes a rigorous testing process. The maintenance of your Proven Dry Cal Technology product is actually a full refurbishment! Our service manual describes the process in detail, but you can rest assured that by the time we finish cleaning, rebuilding and updating your unit and then put it through dynamic flow comparisons before we release it, it’s as good as or better than it was when it was new. Then we issue you a certification, traceable directly to NIST, to provide you with a secure audit trail.

The stakes are high since you rely on your primary standard machinery to monitor the safety of your employees and the environment. Proper recalibration and recertification protects them – and you.

To learn more about recalibration of Bios DryCal technology equipment, visit our website at www.biosint.com.