Mon, 28 Nov 2016 19:58:54 +0000 LOCAL manufactures have been encouraged to take standardisation seriously to promote and ensure quality products in their trading activities. The Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) head of marketing and public relations, Hazel Zulu, called on local manufacturers to tap into the bureau’s standardisation services. Ms Zulu explained that this would ensure that production and industrial instruments used in trade were reading correctly to enable users know the accuracies they were operating at. “The bottom line is that calibration improves the accuracy of measuring devices used in business and trade. And it is also important to note that accurate measuring devices improves product quality,” she said. She said the bureau had in the third quarter of 2016 recorded a decrease of about 14.9 percent of standardisation certificates. Ms Zulu said a total of 542 standardisation certificates were issued to various companies compared with 637 calibration certificates issued in the second […]
Standardisation crucial to local manufacturers, says ZABS
