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Keysight Accreditation Milestones: Australia and Great Britain

Two Augusts, a decade apart, share a milestone for Keysight (former Hewlett-Packard) service centers in Australia and Great Britain: The month in which each received accreditation by their respective national organizations for certain calibration activities.

Australia’s National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) is the world’s oldest calibration accreditation agency. Keysight’s Melbourne service center therefore gets bragging rights for Keysight’s longest term of accreditation—since 21 August 1974.

Original NATA approval

The 2009 celebration marking the Melbourne service center’s 35-year achievement included a video that showcases the facility’s capabilities. The film recaps HP/Keysight history in the United States and Australia, then focuses on the service center’s emergence as Australia’s premier calibration facility and its current capabilities.

Ten years after the Melbourne service center’s accreditation, Keysight’s Winnersh service center in Great Britain was granted British Calibration Service (BCS) "approval” (as it was called) on 17 August 1984.

Based on the NATA model, BCS began operation in 1966. The organization evolved first in 1985 into the National Measurement Accreditation Service (NAMAS) and finally into the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) in 1995.

Original BCS approval

The Australia and United Kingdom Service Centers are just two of Keysight’s accredited calibration facilities.


 

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