I regularly take shots at quality auditors for some of their antics but thought that, in the interest of fairness, it was time to turn my sights on issuers of calibration reports for some of their antics. Auditors are often subjected to blizzards of snow from some of them such that they can find it difficult to dig their way out. In fact, many users of outside calibration services find themselves in a similar situation so I hope the following notes will help them as well.
The first order of business is to define what we’re talking about. Simply put, the document we’re dealing with is a report of values determined by the calibration of a gage or instrument. It is my opinion that a document without data is not much of a report and is essentially useless for using or managing the equipment used for controlling product quality.