Today Dickson is at the Ball State University Career Fair. We’re currently looking to add to our sales team as well as building relationships for potential hires in the future.
If you attend Ball State University and are graduating soon (or you’ve graduated aleeady) stop by the career fair in the Alumni Center and chat with us.
We started the year off by kicking off with a brand new construction project in our Addison facility. We asked for and received a lot of feedback from our customers (one of the nice thing about having an outside sales team) about their experiences recalibrating their units with Dickson. Some of the feedback included that we could make the process faster and provide more documentation about the process.
We heard that feedback and decided to do something about it! We are building out a dedicated A2LA and NIST Certified laboratory with the specialized equipment necessary to meet our customers’ needs. We’ll have dedicated calibration technicians who will work with the units and make sure they are calibrated in a timely and correct manner.
To provide better documentation for our customers we’ll also be building a calibration and repair database that will track a unit while it is at Dickson for calibration and/or repair. This will integrate seamlessly with our website and user accounts. The database will allow users to view their monitoring units’ calibration history, upcoming calibrations, calibration certificates, and allow customers to set up reminders for their devices. It will be a great tool and resource for customers as well as provide some transparency for Dickson.
If you have any questions about calibration, feel free to contact us via email or by phone!
Our newest catalog (PDF link) got a bit of an update this month with new photography, products, and articles. Our goal is to provide you with more educational, engaging, and useful content that you can take back to your fields. Be sure to check out the inside from cover for new calibration content (available below as well), the inside back cover for application highlights, and finally, the rest of the catalog for updated product photography and specifications as well as new products.
The most simple definition of calibration is the comparison of two measurements. In terms of your temperature and temperature/humidity monitoring equipment, calibration refers to confirming an instrument's stated accuracy by comparing it to a more accurate standard and making any adjustments if necessary.
The calibration process involves exposing your instruments or its probe to extremely precise conditions and comparing the instrument's readings to the standard's readings. This occurs in specially designed temperature and humidity chambers that allow us to achieve those precise conditions. If the instrument needs to be adjusted, the adjustments are made via specialized software not available outside of Dickson.
It is a new year and it is already proving to be an exciting one. We’ve broken ground on our new calibration lab (I’ll do a post on that in the near future) and have a number of new projects on the horizon.
2011 was a good year beacause:
2012 will be a good year because:
There’s a lot more on our plate than what’s here, but this is a good summary of what we’re looking forward to.
UPDATED: Added link about our new calibration lab post
Dickson's FT520 Paperless Touchscreen Data Logger/Char Recorder was recently featured as a New and Noteworthy Product by Pharmacy Purchasing & Products (PP&P).
Here's the detail from the column:
Dickson announces the release of the FT520 touchscreen data system. This instrument allows pharmacists to interact with their data via a 4.1˜ x 5.5˜ touchscreen display that has full-graphing capabilities, including customizable graphic display or digital display of temperature and humidity data readings, as well as minimums and maximums. In addition, pharmacists can choose to download the data via USB interface or Flash card. This model takes measurements in both Fahrenheit and Celsius and comes with rechargeable battery backup and a K-Thermocouple probe.
