METROLOGY
The Kansas Metrology Lab provides traceability services, both internally and externally. In addition to certifying the mass and volume standards for our own inspectors, the metrology program provides certification for service companies and industry.
Each year, the metrology program certifies approximately 10,000 standards. These standards include weights, test measures and provers. The certification provides traceability of those standards to those at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Most of these standards are used to calibrate weighing and measuring devices, but a small portion are used by local industry in their quality control programs.
The metrology program participates in round-robin tests of standards and regional metrology meetings to ensure that the results of their laboratory are consistent with other metrology laboratories throughout the world. Because of the strict guidelines the metrology laboratories follow, one can be confident that a pound in New York is the same as a pound in Topeka and is the same as a pound in Los Angeles.