BEIJING, CHINA-- Tektronix Inc., a global provider of multi-vendor instrument calibration, repair and related services, announces that its Beijing service center has been accredited as a calibration service provider for electrical instruments by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS). With this accreditation, Beijing customers will have one single source provider to manage their entire test, measurement and control equipment calibration program.

Achieving the CNAS accreditation means that Tektronix can now calibrate thousands of electrical instruments including, oscilloscopes up to 6GHz, oscilloscope calibrators, multi-meters, arbitrary waveform generators, and more from hundreds of manufacturers. In addition, the company can also calibrate instruments to the stringent ISO 17025 accreditation standard, which is increasingly required by international companies.

"We are delighted that we have been awarded this accreditation by CNAS,” says Bruce Bolliger, vice president, service solutions organization, Tektronix APAC Region. “It represents the culmination of many years of hard work and is the result of a multi-million dollar investment that Tektronix has made in new equipment, site infrastructure, and man power in China.”

The Tektronix Beijing lab is now accredited to calibrate instruments with DC/AC voltage; generate/measure; DC current/AC - generate and DC current-measure; DC resistance; generate/measure, capacitance - generate/measure; frequency - generate/measure and oscilloscope amplitude, Resistance; capacitance; rise time; time markers; pulse width and level flatness.