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Agilent Technologies and Davis Calibration Partner to Provide a Single Source Onsite Calibration Solution
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 24, 2009 -- Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), announced that it has entered into a long term partnership with Davis Calibration (DavisCalibration.com), a leading third party calibration services provider offering a comprehensive set of calibration and repair services for test, measurement, and control equipment. Together the companies will operate from over 35 locations nationwide (US and Canada) to provide high quality calibration services for a wide range of test and measurement equipment— over 80,000 individual model numbers—addressing >90% of customer needs onsite.
In today’s economic environment, companies are looking to reduce the complexity and cost associated with the calibration and maintenance of test equipment. An effective way to do this is by using a single source provider for calibration services. By focusing on a single supplier with the capability to come onsite to perform the work, the costs associated with test equipment downtime, shipping & handling, order processing, calibration data retrieval, asset service history, and issue resolution are significantly reduced. However, choosing a single source calibration supplier who can cover the breadth and complexity of test instruments from various manufacturers has been a challenge – until now.
“We have provided onsite calibration service for Agilent’s breadth of high performance test equipment”, said Steve Aleshire, vice president and general manager of Agilent’s Americas Service Operation, "but customers wanted us to expand our capability to address calibration of other manufacturers and types of test equipment --- without diminishing the convenience, quality and consistency they’ve come to expect. By drawing on Agilent’s depth of knowledge and measurement expertise, combined with the reputation and breadth of capability offered by Davis Calibration, we can now address our customer’s complete service needs, maintaining the convenience of a single point of contact throughout the process while reducing the total cost of their test equipment maintenance program.”
“If customers could choose an OEM to calibrate their instruments it would be Agilent Technologies," said Mark Rohde, CEO of Davis Calibration. “But today the total cost of a maintenance program is driving customers to choose a supplier based not only on quality, but breadth of capability and onsite convenience. Choosing the Agilent and Davis partnership for calibration provides the highest confidence in meeting these three decision criteria. Now, with seamless delivery and one contract our customers can get the combined coverage, cost benefits, and expected quality of the world’s largest test and measurement service provider.”
Services from both companies are ISO 17025 accredited and include the full range of calibration offerings required by commercial and government entities. Calibration capabilities cover electrical from DC to optical, flow, pressure, mass, temperature, and other physical / dimensional products.
Agilent and Davis Calibration service account representatives will work together to provide a customized service solution to match specific customer needs. To learn more, visit the “Agilent/Davis Partnership Reception” at the upcoming National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI), Sunday, July 26th, 5-7PM. http://www.ncsli.org/conference/2009/
About Davis Calibration
Davis Calibration is a world leader in the calibration of test, measurement and control instrumentation. Founded in 1912, Davis Calibration laboratories are ISO-9001:2000 certified, with a broad scope of accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025. Davis Calibration is owned by JPB Enterprises, Inc. (JPBE), a privately-owned investment bank located in Columbia, Maryland.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.8 billion in fiscal 2008. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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