Features & Benefits
Tektronix Calibration Includes:
- Verification of specifications using manufacturer-developed
procedures
- Adjustment as necessary to restore performance
to specifications
- Updates to instrument firmware
- Minor repairs when needed
- Installation of reliability and
safety updates
- Traceability to national metrology institutes
- Certificate of Traceable Calibration
- Maintenance of
reverse traceability records
- Optional test data report
Whether
you’re making electronic measurements on a brand-new circuit design
or spot-checking one unit out of thousands in production, you want
to be certain that your results are accurate and your methods compliant
with standards. Measurements are critical to your success. Ultimately
they are part of the products you create.
A Tektronix Calibration
Service plan is the most efficient way to ensure specified performance
over the lifetime of your Tektronix instrument. It also guarantees
continuous compliance with international quality and traceability
standards. A range of convenient and affordable plans are available,
including single-source calibration plans for all your instruments,
irrespective of vendor origin.
With a Tektronix Calibration
Service plan you can be confident in the measurement results your
instruments produce. The table below summarizes the available service
alternatives.
Calibration Service Plans
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Plan
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Features
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Depot Service
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Accredited and Traceable calibration
Functional Verification
Applicable software, safety, and reliability updates
Calibration
records retention
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On-site Service
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Accredited and Traceable Calibration
Functional Verification
Service is prearranged to fit your schedule
On-site delivery
for convenience and reduced downtime
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Multi-Vendor Calibration Service
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Single point of contact for all calibration needs
Certified
and accredited calibration facilities and personnel
Over 80,000
instrument models covered
On-site service at your facility
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Performance
You count on your Tektronix
instruments to deliver their specified performance year after year.
It’s what measurement confidence is all about. The best way to ensure
that performance is to follow a rigorous calibration schedule, adhering
to the recommended calibration interval for each particular instrument.
And there is no better resource for calibration of your Tektronix
instrument than Tektronix itself.
A Tektronix calibration puts
your instrument through the most thorough evaluation in the industry. Where other commercially available calibration procedures might
perform fifty tests, the Tektronix process applies many hundreds of
tests. This rigorous examination can reveal trends and forestall problems
that might emerge later.
Compliance
Compliance with
regional and international standards is a key end-product of any credible
calibration procedure. Your Tektronix instruments must be calibrated
to globally-accepted standards so that their results – the results
that impact your product’s quality – can be trusted.
Both accredited
and fully traceable calibration levels are available. Accreditation
guarantees that compliant calibration facilities and procedures will
be used. Traceability ties the accuracy of your calibration to a hierarchy
of measurement references that begins with the tools that calibrate
your instrument, and ends with the standardized weights and measures
residing in national laboratories such as NIST in the U.S.
Tektronix personnel, facilities, and equipment are certified and/or
accredited, where applicable, to the following standards:
- ISO/IEC 17025:2005
- ANSI/NCSL Z540.1-1994(R2002)
- ISO 9001
A Tektronix Traceable or Accredited
calibration plan ensures your instruments maintain traceability and
can meet regulatory requirements needed in many industries. Using
compliant tools fosters confidence in both the measurement results
and the end-products whose performance depends on those measurements.
Convenience
Tektronix Calibration Service plans are
convenient and easy to use. Flexible delivery options include a choice
of depot or on-site calibration. Recognizing that your instruments
are often part of a critical design or production path, every plan
is designed to provide fast turnaround. Most Tektronix calibration
steps are performed using automated procedures. The process is thorough
yet efficient, delivering uncompromised performance in minimal time.
With a Depot Service Plan, your instrument will get priority, placing it ahead of the on-demand queue and minimizing the time
the instrument is out of circulation. Online tools are available 24/7
to track your instrument’s progress. Calibration Due notices help
you keep track of your instrument’s calibration intervals, sparing
you the administrative effort of monitoring them.
On-site
Service Plans offer calibration performed on your schedule, in your
facility, using the same tests and tools as a depot calibration.
In either case, Depot or On-site, you get assured compliance and measurement
confidence.
Cost-Effectiveness
Tektronix multiyear
calibration service plans are discounted when compared to an equivalent
level of on-demand service, making the plans the most affordable
way to get Tektronix service quality (and the guaranteed performance
that it brings) over the life of your instrument.
Your Calibration
Service plan is a contract protected against price increases and
budget “surprises” over 3 or 5 years. If you opt for depot service,
the plans include free shipping, avoiding another cost that adds up
over the course of years’ worth of trips to and from the service facility.
A Tektronix Calibration Service plan delivers measurement confidence
while supporting your business needs for a fixed and predictable cost
of ownership.
