Gage Calibration Stickers in harsh environments - Are Calibration Stickers Required

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Hi, I work in a Water Heater manufacturing Plant, and we have a lot of measuring during the day and in a lot of areas, some of the instrumens are use in a greasy, dusty, and heavy process wearing, so the labels im using wear off really quickly, is there any other way i can identified them or are there any heavy duty labels i can use?
 
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Re: "Calibration Stickers"

You can use the device serial number or other unique ID to ensure traceability to a cal record. If you do a search, this topic is well chewed over here.....
 
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CliffK

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Re: "Calibration Stickers"

What AndyN said ...

If there are no serial numbers on the devices, you can engrave your own.
 

Marc

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Re: "Calibration Stickers" in harsh environments - Are Calibration Stickers Required?

I have seen companies with gage boards. They have the gage ID serial number and a calibration sticker on the board. When not in use the gage is placed on the board in the location where the calibration sticker and ID is. Technically a gage does not have to have a due date or other calibration sticker on it. The key is to have a system where:

You have some way of identifying the gage and a way that users of the gage can determine the calibration due date, be it a sticker or calibration record or other means.
 
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Re: "Calibration Stickers" in harsh environments - Are Calibration Stickers Required?

I have seen companies with gage boards. They have the gage ID serial number and a calibration sticker on the board. When not in use the gage is placed on the board in the location where the calibration sticker and ID is. Technically a gage does not have to have a due date or other calibration sticker on it. The key is to have a system where:

You have some way of identifying the gage and a way that users of the gage can determine the calibration due date, be it a sticker or calibration record or other means.

I've advocated such systems, myself. Very nice and great to use too!
 

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Re: "Calibration Stickers"

But not on the same device, right?
It's not uncommon. The sticker can just be used to let users know the calibration status, while the engraved number is a permanent identification allowing the calibration status to be ascertained if the sticker comes off. In such a case the sticker is a convenience, not a necessity.
 

Jerry Eldred

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Re: Gage Calibration Stickers in harsh environments - Are Calibration Stickers Requir

It's all been covered so well, there's not much more I can say. But for the sake of getting in some sort of comment...

There is no universal requirement that a "CALIBRATION STICKER" must be on units. The requirement (generally speaking) is to assure that only currently calibrated units are used, and that users are able to identify that the unit is currently calibrated.

Most of the time this is done using stickers/labels. However, as has been well covered above, there are many other ways to do it. As I may have alluded to in posts in the past, I had a quality director once argue (successfully) that in certain conditions, there was no need for a cal sticker, and that it was to make the auditors happy.

The circumstance was a fully automated factory (semiconductors) where we worked. Any test equipment used had to be logged in using a bar code, which was connected to the maintenance/production database. If the instrument was past due cal or not properly calibrated, the production database would not allow it to be used. Therefore (as alluded to above also), the cal sticker would have been just a convenience.

So bottom line for the original poster, as long as you have a reasonable method (which complies with your quality system) to assure that only properly calibrated units may be used, and/or users have an unambiguous method to know the calibration status of the unit before using it, then it should be fine.

If the decision is to have a gage board, engraved information, and/or what ever may be needed, it should be fine.
 

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Re: Gage Calibration Stickers in harsh environments - Are Calibration Stickers Requir

It's all been covered so well, there's not much more I can say. But for the sake of getting in some sort of comment...
:lol::lmao:

Oh, heck! Like Jerry, I can't help myself.

Back in my pressure gauge days, I saw some pretty brutal environments, and have used all the methods mentioned above. In addition, we had stainless steel tags (with stickers on them) attached by wire/string. One usage we have luggage tags (it had a little flap to cover the tag). They actually worked pretty decent.
 
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