A Centralized Facility for Electrical and Microwave Calibrations in a Large Company

Abstract

Some of the special problems which have arisen in connection with operation of a facility such as this have been discussed and the types of calibration services provided by the Sperry Gyroscope Company, together with the calibration facilities used for those services described. In all work the reliability aspects of calibration, with particular emphasis on the hierarchy system of standards and calibrations, are stressed. Experience, since the establishment of the Electrical Standards Laboratory in 1941, indicates this type of facility is necessary and practical for operations in the Sperry Gyroscope Company. In fact, it is even more important today as a result of major reorganizations which have taken place in the last several years at Sperry and which have resulted in a more decentralized organization with a number of autonomous product divisions.