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Benefits Of Understanding Field Calibration & Adjustment
Is my instrument calibrated? That’s the question every end user asks as they
make critical path decisions based on their measured data. Our field
calibration course not only answers this question, but provides
technicians with the skills needed to correct instrument errors right
where it counts the most - on the jobsite.
Whether your cal lab is across the street or across the country, sending
an instrument out for calibration during a critical path outage is an expensive,
time-consuming proposition. Learn to evaluate instrument calibration immediately to
determine if project discrepancies are instrument- or hardware-related.
Besides, it's always good practice to run a few standard instrument checks at
the job site to make certain that you're not wasting your time when the
real measuring starts. While you can't perform every instrument
check in the field that you can do in a calibration lab, there are a
number of important parameters that you can prove in the field.
Parameters that are important for accuracy. You can do this
without taking any specialized laboratory instrumentation with you (such
as multiple target collimators or precision azimuth bases).
Learning Objectives Understand the common field checks for transits and sight levels. Learn
how to use common measurement tools (eg., tooling scales) to perform instrument
checks prior to use on a job site.
Note that this course is not intended to teach you how to perform certified
laboratory calibrations on your equipment - we have another
calibration course for that. But if you want to know the basic checks
that you can perform in the field to determine if your transit or precision sight
level is ready to go, this is where you can learn.
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Course content is appropriate for field technicians and supervisors, calibration lab
supervisors and technicians, maintenance technicians, and others who
rely on proper optical instrument calibration.
The 16-hour field calibration course focuses exclusively on calibration and adjustment of
transits and precision sight levels. Several topics from the
40-hour course are discussed briefly as context for the 16-hour course. Therefore,
while not mandatory, we recommend students who enroll in the 16-hour course have
previous optical instrument experience or have completed the 40-hour Optical Tooling
Theory & Applications Course.