Gauges. This is a word that is incorrectly used by many people to describe the jewelry worn in stretched earlobe piercings. The Gauge system is actually a system of measurement, initially created to measure the thickness of wire and other cylindrical objects.
What is calibration and what is its importance? Calibration is defined as an association between measurements â one of a scale or accuracy made or set with one piece of equipment and another measurement made in as similar a way as possible with a second piece of equipment.
INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONï¬eld instrument to a tighter tolerance than what the calibration standard is capable of. In one case,an instrument technician attempted to calibrate a pneumatic pressure transmitter to a toleranceof Â± 0.25% of span using a test gauge that was only good for Â± 1% of the same span.038 CHAPTER 18. INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONstandards to be useful within the industrial world, we use them to calibrate other instruments,which are then used to calibrate other instruments, and so on until we arrive at the instrument weintend to calibrate for ï¬eld service in a process.