Calibration

Brand Independent calibrations for DC/LF and EMC/RF

Calibrations of electronic equipment is one of the activities that Kiwa Dare offers to its clients. these calibrations are under accreditation in the field of electrical quantities. Besides calibrations in the field of DC current, DC voltage and low frequency (test and measuring) equipment, Kiwa Dare is specialized in calibrating high frequency measuring equipment and in particular EMC equipment in a frequency range of (DC) 40 GHz. New the site validation calibrations whereby Kiwa Dare can calibrate shielded rooms (Faraday room) and anechoic chambers under accreditation.

Calibration: the basis for quality

Quality can be defined as "the degree to which a product or service meets the requirements of the customer". In order to determine whether a product meets the customer requirements, measurements are often performed. To ensure that these measurements are reliable, they must be traceable to the results. The only way to ensure traceable results, is to use calibrated measurement instruments. It is therefore that many quality systems as the ISO/IEC 9000 series and ISO/IEC 17025 require that instruments are regularly calibrated, in other words has to be included in a calibration system.

Calibration System

A well-functioning calibration system includes much more than the regular calibration of measuring instruments. In this context Kiwa Dare Services offers a full range of services for optimum management of your valuable instruments.

Click here for more about calibrating your DC/LF instruments.
Click here for more about calibrating your EMC/RF instruments.

Facilities

Calibrations are performed in our ultra modern laboratories in Woerden (The Netherlands). Kiwa Dare has a fully temperature-and humidity controlled room and anechoic room available. In addition Kiwa Dare lso possesses an Open Area Test Site (OATS) / antenna test area and an electromagnetic field sensor calibration space.

International Equivalence of Accreditation

Kiwa Dare is ISO/IEC17025 accredited by the Dutch Council for Accreditation (RvA) under number K063 (please see our quality page for the latest version of the scope). Therefore Kiwa Dare is the laboratory to perform your accredited calibration. The Dutch Council for Accreditation (RvA) is a member of the European Accreditation (EA) so the calibration results (reports/certificates) are accepted internationally. Regulation 765/2008 sets out the requirements for accreditation within the Eurpean Union. Furthermore the RvA is a signatory member of IAF and ILAC anf thus the reports and certificates issues by Kiwa Dare are accepted worldwide.

The European Accreditation comprises mutual recognition between Accreditation Bodies. See here how to verify the equivalence with other accreditation bodies.

The five steps to check the reiability of our certificates or reports:

Find the RvA accreditation marks on our certificates and reports (RvA and ILAC)
Find the RvA at the EA site: EA members
Find our Calibration scope under reference K063 at the RvA site
Check the quotation, report and DARE!! scope - DARE!! calibrates against international standards as far as available
If there is still doubt, check you local accreditation body

Traceability

The reference standards which are used by Kiwa Dare are calibrated periodically by the National Standards Laboratory, which guarantees a direct traceability to the (inter)national standards.

Certificates

The calibration certificates contain an extensive report of the measured results inclusive measuring uncertainty with, where appropriate, illustrations of the measured curves. The total measurement uncertainty of the calibration certificate is firmly set in accordance with the EA document EA-4/02 (rev. 00) of December 1999 "Expressions of the Uncertainty of Measurement in Calibration" (including Supplement 1 to EA-4/02- ) (before this EAL-R2)).

Complete and fast service

It is important that a customer has calibrated measuring equipment at one's disposal at all times. Kiwa Dare can take care of the timely call and schedule of measuring equipment. The turnaround time of calibrations is 5 working days so that you won't have to miss your instruments for a very long time. Also for the transportation of your valuable instruments Kiwa Dare has a solution. If you arrange that the instruments are ready, this may even be without packaging, we ensure safe and insured transportation with our own transport service. If you have more measuring equipment which needs to be calibrated regularly we offer interesting terms. These are based on a calibration agreement, for example discount scales on our calibration rates.

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