For businesses that do both
You calibrate torque wrenches in the morning and tag two hundred leads in the afternoon. Nothing on the market does both properly.
Why nothing else fits
Two products, or one that gets the distinction wrong.
The metrology systems have no inspection intervals or batch grid. The test-and-tag systems have no uncertainty, no reference standards and no 17025 engine. A business that does both has been running two, or bending one.
The batch grid
A hundred items in an afternoon, keyed as fast as a tester reads them, with one-sided limits and go/no-go checks as first-class results. It exists because inspection is the largest field by volume, and a certificate screen built for a load cell is the wrong tool for a lead.
The document is decided by the item
Not by the shape of the check. A multimeter with a pass/fail against its accuracy specification gets a calibration certificate with a decision rule. An extension lead with a pass against AS/NZS 3760:2022 gets an inspection report. The kind is stored on the document at issue and cannot be changed after.
One invoice, one recall engine
The customer with a torque wrench and four hundred tagged items is one customer. Their recall reminders come from one ladder, their portal shows both document kinds, and their invoice carries both lines. The system was built for this customer because the first laboratory had them.
The distinction, kept
What the software refuses.
Why must an inspection report never carry an accreditation mark?
Because inspection is a separate scheme — ISO/IEC 17020 — and a mark that belongs to a calibration scope has no business on a document that asserts nothing about measurement accuracy. The refusal is unit-tested. It is the kind of mistake that is easy on a template and expensive at an assessment, and the software makes it impossible rather than unlikely.
What does an inspection report say?
That an item met the criteria of a named standard on a date, tested by a named person, with the limit and what set it beside every outcome. It carries no grade and no uncertainty, because neither applies. It carries the next inspection date as your procedure sets it for the item's environment.
How does the calibration side stay proper?
Exactly as it would in a laboratory that did nothing else. A run cannot use a lapsed reference standard. Only a signatory with a current competence record for the method can issue. A statement of conformity needs a declared decision rule under ISO/IEC 17025 §7.8.6. Sharing a system with inspection work relaxes none of it.
Where do forty thousand items leave the bill?
Under the cap. The instrument charge falls in bands and stops at $310.00 a month, so a register can grow without moving the bill — which no system priced per asset can say. The estimator shows the line.
Test & Tag under AS/NZS 3760:2022 is inspection, not calibration, and CalibraWorks refuses an accreditation mark on an inspection report.
What it costs
$549.00 a month for the laboratory, and the items are capped.
A test-and-tag business with forty thousand items pays $859.00 a month on the Laboratory plan. A business with three thousand pays $859.00 too.
The questions people ask before they start
- Is Test & Tag calibration?
- No. Test & Tag under AS/NZS 3760:2022 is in-service inspection and testing: an item either meets the standard's criteria or it does not. A calibration certificate states what an instrument reads against a reference, with an uncertainty. CalibraWorks issues an inspection report for the first and a calibration certificate for the second, decides which by the item rather than by the shape of the check, and never puts an accreditation mark on an inspection report.
- Can we run both from one system without mixing them up?
- That is the reason this page exists. The document kind is stored on the document at issue, the batch grid handles a hundred items in an afternoon, and the certificate engine handles a load cell in the same job. The invoice carries both. Nothing about the inspection work is allowed to look like calibration on paper.
- We hold forty thousand tagged items. What does that cost?
- The instrument charge is capped at $310.00 a month, so a business with forty thousand items pays $859.00 a month on the Laboratory plan and a business with three thousand pays $859.00 too. An item earns you one inspection a period; a charge that took a bite out of that would give you a reason to keep items out of the system, and the recall engine is what protects that revenue.
- Does it handle the intervals?
- Each item carries its inspection interval as your procedure sets it for its environment, and the recall ladder runs from it. The software does not invent an interval for an item you have not classified; it reports the item as unclassified until you do.
- What about RCD tests and one-sided limits?
- A limit can be one-sided — an earth continuity of at most one ohm, an insulation resistance of at least one megohm — and the software records the limit and what sets it. A check with no numeric reading, a go/no-go, is a first-class result. Both print on the inspection report with the criterion beside the outcome.
Bring the tag register.
Thirty days, no card. Import the item list as CSV and run the first batch in the grid; the calibration side is there when the next torque wrench arrives.