AS9100 Equipment for reference measurement

Answer:
Clause 7.1.5.2 on measurement traceability requires calibration for any equipment that is essential to providing confidence of the validity of measurement results, or in other words measuring equipment used to make official measurements. If the tools you are speaking of are used to make the final measurements that are ensuring final validation measurement on a product then they would need to be calibrated. If they are only reference measurements to ensure that future official measurements are correct then deeming them as calibration not required would not be against AS9100 requirements.
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