When was the last time you adjusted your wristwatch?

Your wristwatch is a high precision time measuring instrument. If it wasn't for the time difference between all receivers of this newsletter our watches would show the same time…

Or would they really!?

If all of you should report what time it is, at the same moment, the result would be a deviation of most probably ± 10 minutes. But if we all before doing so adjusted the watches according to the national time references we would be within ± 1 minute or less. The difference of ± 10 minutes is not much you might say but if time was our business it would, as for any pilot, ship captain, stock broker or even when we celebrate the new year!

This short watch story shows how important it is that your instruments are calibrated when analysing your measurements, your production, comparing values or sharpen the production limits. For those of you that wear radio controlled watches and think that this story is not of your concern, a short comment: A radio controlled watch shows very accurate readings because it is calibrated several times per day…

Lorentzen & Wettre are pleased to be able to offer all our customers world wide Preventive Maintenance and Calibration. The PMA visits are made either by our service engineers or by Lorentzen & Wettre partners.

A complete range of services with the same high quality as our other products. Choose the solutions that suits you best from

PMA
One of the advantages of having a Preventive Maintenance Agreement (PMA) is that you can now budget for annual maintenance and calibration costs whilst greatly minimising the risk of operational Instruments disruptions.

CALIBRATION
All of our professional, factory-trained technicians use specially developed calibration tools to guarantee that all of the factors that can affect the functionality and accuracy of your instrument can be verified using proven, correct and reliable techniques. Working to these high standards ensures that all instruments of one type within your group will perform to within the specified tolerance range.

A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICES
Start-up and commissioning for new instruments, tailor-made training packages, extended warranties, upgrading of older instruments, instrument verification, the PPS master kit, the Paper Machine Optimisation Programme and in-house measurement & analysis of your paper samples.