How Much Does it Cost to Play with Calibration Cycle Extension?

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This article by Jean-Claude Krynicki was presented at the NCSL International 2004 Symposium and published in the Proceedings.

Abstract

The starting point for a calibration cycle extension study is very often a financial motivation and the gains on the maintenance of reference equipment are quite immediately visible and easy to calculate. It is usually mentioned in the abundant literature concerning this topic that calibration cycle management is a trade off between maintenance cost and other factors less tangible like product quality, measurement integrity, company image, customer satisfaction and recall costs. The objective of this paper is to present a financial simulation to really quantify this trade-off using the concept of Cost to Obtain Quality (COQ) and based on the experience of a large-scale asset optimisation project. Several solutions recently deployed in the industry to quantify this trade-off are also presented.

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Cost of Cal Cycle Extension