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LAB, from 4 is your ‘John Hancock’ is worth.” Air Force.”
During the AFMETCAL in- Tibayan shared that he takes
report that they passed in April.
The lab calibrates everything spection, the PMEL is evaluated his job seriously because PMEL
in six areas: management system, is critical to an Airman’s safety.
from micrometers to torque measurement capability assess-
wrenches and airplane scales. ment, quality program, facility, “When our pilots are flying
$QGLW¶VQRWMXVWOLPLWHGWRÀLJKW environmental control system and in combat, we’re making sure
test. They also calibrate the radar SUR¿FLHQF\WHVWLQJPHDVXUHPHQW that when they’re going to have
guns used by the 412th Security assurance program. According to to drop a bomb at a range of 45
Forces Squadron and equipment Tibayan, PMEL has one of the miles within 10 feet, it’s, no kid-
used at the base hospital along “toughest quality programs in the ding, going to be within 10 feet.”
with just about everything else
that has some type of physical Air Force photograph by Rebecca Amber
property.
Senior Airman Joseph Fowlkes, 412th Maintenance Squadron, works on an
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equipment that can produce
wave forms, measure pressure or customer requested. that are exactly the same as an Air Force photograph by Rebecca Amber
torque, take linear measurements Their process is so exact that equivalent item anywhere in the
and much more. There are al- world. Paul Breedveld, Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory mechanic,
most 21,000 items in their inven- many items must be calibrated calibrates a 3458 multimeter.
tory and they certify up to 12,000 in a temperature-controlled cold “We could actually measure a
items each year. room. The standard temperature business card, put it on our scale
prevents variances that are created and do a zero tare, then make you
“We support the rocket lab, when materials like metal expand sign it and then re-weigh and it
March Air Reserve Base, the Na- and contract. Once an item is cali- would tell me how much your sig-
tional Guard off of Channel Is- brated by an Air Force PMEL, it nature weighs,” said Tibayan. “I
lands, civil engineering ... every should produce measurements can actually put a price to what
customer you can think of, we
support,” said Daniel Tibayan,
Test Measurement and Diagnostic
Equipment Flight chief.
In the precision lab, it’s all
about standards. All of their
equipment has to calibrate to the
measurements set by the National
Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology. When a customer brings
in an item for calibration, PMEL
returns it with accuracy that is
four times better than what the
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