I was chatting with a colleague recently, a well-known supplier of precision measuring instruments. I noted, sarcastically, that his company was promoting a half-day training seminar on calibration and best of all—it was free! Having done a few seminars on specific topics within the dimensional calibration field, I know there is a demand for such training especially if it’s free, or very low cost, and only takes half a day to complete.
Seminars such as this can be quite helpful to those unfamiliar with the process, but it depends on what you mean by ‘training.’ Usually such efforts are directed to how you use some of the more popular instruments supplied by the trainer’s company. When it comes to calibration however, things get a lot more complicated and a half-day seminar will be just enough time to indicate all the subjects that need to be covered to get a feel for what the subject is all about. Then the real training can begin.