Routine Calibration of Large Number of Test & Measurement Equipment

Military forces need always new equipment to cope with the expected challenges they face in unknown, hostile environment. To enable unrestricted operations, military forces are also preparing to maintain this equipment (if possible) in this environment with own personal and equipment. By doing this, they have a high need of up-to-date, precise test & measurement equipment. So the existing stock of test & measurement equipment has continuously to be updated to the needs of the user. Obsolete equipment has to be scraped and replaced by new items, which fulfills the requirements. As for every new part number a specific calibration procedure is needed and the user in the field needs to be trained in the handling of the equipment, military forces are thriving for standardization and use of general purpose test & measurement equipment. For calibration of the test & measurement equipment military forces set up their own technical calibration documents (e.g. 33K100--). Inventory equipment of the calibration laboratories is also standardized to cope with the predicted workload. Thereby routine procedures can be set up to determine measurement uncertainties automatically. The presentation will cover the way to set up routine calibration of test & measurement equipment for the end user. Like every modern army the German armed forces dispose of a huge number of weapon systems and the necessary equipment for handling, repair, inspection and testing, which includes also test & measurement equipment or test systems. The equipment of the armed forces is mission-oriented - the equipment is continuously adapted to the situation to be expected in the respective place of action.