Optical Test and Calibration Ltd - News Page

• In-House calibration/certification: Standard 5-day turnaround with 2-day premium service available on request.
• UKAS accreditation in these principle areas - Fibre Optic, Electrical, Photometric and UV.
• BS EN ISO IEC17025 accredited laboratory.
• Quality management system BS EN ISO 9001:2000 registered.
• Direct traceability to SI units via primary standards at NPL, LNE and other acceditated laboratories.
• Collection and Delivery service available via OTC transport for large areas of the UK.
• Complete inventory management available, if required.
• Automatic recall system to reduce administration costs of maintaining your calibration database.

OTC's new Thermopile rig with improved capabilities

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OTC can now perform Spectral measurements

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A team of OTC staff took part in Movember 2012 to raise money for this worthy cause.

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Having calibrated UV meters for many years and earning a high reputation in this area, we have now gained UKAS accreditation for UVA in early December 2012.

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OTC’s latest addition: New QR Barcode gives you instant access to the Tracking system which includes a host of features.

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OTC is pleased to announce our new in-house ‘Pressure Calibration’ service

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We are pleased to announce that OTC has been appointed by Kingfisher as their UK sales and service centre.

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Fitel have established a strong position as one the world’s premier fusion splicer manufacturers and with our background in the Datacomms and Telecoms industry, OTC make an ideal support base for their range of splicers and cleavers here in the UK.

For a fast, friendly, cost effective service call us on 01274 393857, or email fitel@otc.co.uk or book your instruments in for service via our website Equipment List pages here and take full advantage of the support and capabilities on offer from OTC.

Upgrade of the CMA4000 platform to store and transfer results on Compact Flash format instead of Floppy Disk for quicker storage and much greater results storage capacity.

The upgrade involves hardware and software changes to the instrument and is best carried out prior to the calibration.

Compact Flash Interface upgrade £445.00 + VAT. Please contact us for more info

Luxmeters have served the technical community well for many years. They are, in general, relatively robust, easy to use and cheap (although the old adage of “you get what you pay for” always applies)

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Since 2008, OTC has a key target of ensuring all in-house calibrations are completed within 5 working days. Over the last 3 years, we have carried out cross-discipline training to improve our job flexibility so that all calibrations can be carried out by at least two technicians.

Although we have a little way still to go, operations director Kenny Dove has been keeping score and while our calibration turnround of 93.4% during 2008 was good, our changes resulted in an impressive improvement across 2009 to 98.8% and 99.0% for last year.

Kenny says: "We have been delighted with our improving turnround statistics over the last few years and these statistics highlight the dedication and commitment of our team. We know that downtime can be costly and OTC will continue to find ways to improve our calibration service to our customers."

After many years of providing photometric test equipment and service to the lighting and allied industries, Megatron closed down their operations in March 2010 and OTC has continued to provide UKAS accredited calibration of their professional light meters. This has been very successful with over 80% of Megatron calibration customers now using our service.

We also continue to carry out simple repairs but if a Megatron meter cannot be fixed, OTC has a range of suitable replacement meters, supplied complete with half-price calibration.

Details of our light meters range can be found here.

Since September 2008, OTC has been an Exfo distributor of their Enterprise and NSP products covering handheld optical power meters (EPM and FPM ranges), light sources (ELS and FLS ranges) and loss test tests (FOT-300, FOT-600, FOT-930) through to the OTDR ranges of AXS-100, FTB-200 and FTB-400.

In addition to offering the service facility throughtout Europe, OTC is also an appointed sales distributor for the product range covering the geographical areas of the United Kingdom and Ireland.