Minerva News
Customercase Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
The weather, everyone talks about it. The KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorology Institute), a well-known organisation in the Netherlands, focuses on weather conditions and predictions on a daily basis. KNMI is one of Minerva’s customers and today we’re having a...
The metrological impact of the Minerva promise “ensuring carefree traceability”
For many years we live by the Minerva customer promise “ensuring carefree traceability”. But what is the metrological background and impact of this promise? To answer this question let’s first examine what traceability means. According to the International Vocabulary...
Minerva shuttle service increasingly popular!
Calibration instruments can be sensitive and delicate to handle. The calibration instruments are important for quality and traceability for the customer and their service or product. Shipping and proper packaging are key issues to consider when calibration equipment...
Minerva’s evolution in low pressure capabilities
At Minerva, we made quite an evolution in low pressure capabilities.
The advantages of a shortlist for calibration service companies
At Minerva we see a trend in the calibration market that more and more parties want to move towards a shortlist of suppliers instead of maintaining relationships with multiple suppliers. Disadvantages of a long list Many companies face the situation that over many...
Retired deadweight tester returns to Minerva after 49 years
Three weeks ago we received a phone call from a retired customer that is moving towards a new house. He had taken home an old deadweight tester/pressure balance that was also retired during his previous job, to preserve it. Since he has no room anymore for this unit...
Turnaround time Minerva calibration lab reduced
This year's customer survey showed that the greater part of the respondents appreciates Minerva as a supplier and has great trust in us. The Minerva team is very happy with this result. Yet we saw room for improvement to live up our customer expectation. One of the...
Manufacturing readiness
Following the same rules A portion of my job is managing an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited calibration laboratory where my tasks vary from developing and testing calibration procedures till internal audits and maintaining our management system. Another part of my job is the...
Summary of the results of the customer survey for 2023
Every year in May we invite our active customers to share their experience in working with Minerva. We are happy with the results and your appreciation as a customer, but the downward trend is one of the reasons to improve the Minerva calibration service. The most...