• Colour Tool Service
• Update Colour Chips
• Update Software
• Health Checks of Equipment
• Calibration

Milsteda Systems offer an on-site calibration service. This can be done on an ad hoc basis, but it makes sense to take out a contract. We will then visit once or twice per year on a pre-arranged schedule making sure your scales are operating correctly and helping ensure compliance with PAS 125

A calibration certificate can only be attained at the place of installation for a balance. One can't calibrate a balance here in Newark and ship it to another destination with the calibration certificate that would be valid.

• Any location in the world is positioned differently from "magnetic north", thus effecting the acceleration of gravity, which effect the force a cal mass exerts on the balance's weighing sensor.
• Barometric Pressure makes a difference and if the balance is calibrated in the hills of the Pennines and you're at sea level say in Cornwall your elevation is different effecting the barometric pressure.

Our engineers check this, as this is the biggest cause of problems with paint matching.

Linearity refers to the quality of delivering identical sensitivity throughout the weighing capacity of a balance or scale. Test this characteristic by weighing two stable objects separately, each of approximately one half the weighing capacity. The sum of the two readings should equal the reading obtained when both objects are weighed together.

Linearity calibration utilizes three calibration points, one at zero, centre span and full span. This method minimizes deviation between actual and displayed weights within the balance's weighing range.

The linearity test measures the ability of a scale to have consistent sensitivity throughout the weighing range. The test requires several nominally equal weights, each a fraction of the weighing capacity. The group together should approximate the weighing range of the instrument. For example, a 7Kg scale tested with seven 1Kg weights.

Calibration is the comparison between the output of a scale against a standard value. Calibration requires a standard weight.

Calibration technically means to determine the difference between the scale readout and the actual weight on the weighing platform to determine accuracy.

Adjustment means to bring a scale into the state of accuracy required for its use. Therefore, 'calibration," actually means "adjustment."