Glossary
Common terms you see across Calibration Vault and audits.
- Calibration certificate
- Document with calibration results, timestamps, and lab details.
- Instrument
- A tracked asset with fields such as type and next due date.
- Asset ID
- Unique identifier your organisation assigns to an instrument.
- Traceability
- Proof that results link through an unbroken chain back to reference standards.
- Accreditation
- Recognition of a lab's competence (for example UKAS or DAkkS).
- Next due / expiry
- Date after which a certificate is treated as outdated.
- Measurement uncertainty
- Parameter describing the dispersion of measurement values.
- Audit Pack
- Summary PDF plus optional ZIP with certificates for auditors.
- Version
- Stored revision of a certificate file linked to an instrument.