DOES NEW STUFF AVE TO BE CALIBRATED?--CALIBRATION ENSURES THE NEW STUFF IS GOOD

摘要

Des new stuff have to be calibrated? The short answer to the question is "yes," so you don't have to read further unless you want to know why.The technical term "new stuff" refers to new, unused gages and instruments. The main question leads to another thought. If the stuff is new, it has to be good or suppliers wouldn't ship it—would they? This comment suggests that the supplier actually checked your stuff before shipping, which is not always the case. It also assumes that the reliability of this inspection is good, which is not always the case either. Many makers of gages and measuring instruments include a piece of paper with each item which claims the items have been inspected. But the value collapses when the same piece of paper says that if the buyer finds the instruments to be incorrect, the supplier's liability is limited to repair or replacement of the defective item. Being linguistically challenged, I assume that if the items have been calibrated by their "highly skilled technicians," there won't be anything wrong with them. But, alas, my assumption is incorrect.