For businesses that do both
Calibration and Test & Tag. One laboratory system.
Why one system
One system. Two essential services.
Whether your laboratory performs calibration, electrical test-and-tag or both, CalibraWorks brings your work together while keeping each service's records and reporting requirements distinct.
One organisation account
Your laboratory, its people and its settings, set up once for both services.
Shared customer information
A customer with a torque wrench and four hundred tagged items is one customer, with one set of contacts.
Calibration and inspection records in one place
Instruments and tagged items sit in one register, each with its own history.
Distinct certificates and reports
A calibration certificate and an inspection report stay different documents, decided by the item and fixed at issue.
Coordinated scheduling and recalls
Due dates come from each item's own interval, and each customer hears about everything that is due together.
Shared staff and customer access, where supported
Your staff work both kinds of job, and the customer portal shows both kinds of document.
Less duplicate administration
No second customer list to keep in step, and no second set of invoices to reconcile.
One subscription
Calibration and Test & Tag on the same plan, with no module fee for doing both.
How it works
Each service keeps its own rules.
Inspection and calibration share a customer, a register and an invoice. They do not share a document, a standard or a scheme.
The batch grid
Many items keyed in one grid, as fast as a tester reads them, with one-sided limits and go/no-go checks as first-class results. A certificate screen built for a load cell is the wrong tool for a lead, so inspection work has its own.
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
The customer with a torque wrench and four hundred tagged items is one customer. Their reminders come from one recall, their portal shows both document kinds, and their invoice carries both lines.
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 does a large tag register leave the bill?
Calibration instruments and test-and-tag items currently count together. On the Laboratory plan the instrument charge falls in bands and is capped at $310 a month, so within its standard capacity of 10,000 active items a bigger tag register does not move that line. Above standard capacity, growth capacity is available from $149 a month, arranged on request and approved by your administrator. Growing beyond standard capacity? Additional capacity can be arranged to match your operations. Larger or specialised requirements are assessed individually. A test-and-tag business may also be eligible for the Inspection plan, on application, with 25,000 active items in standard capacity. The calculator 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, one subscription for both services.
Within standard capacity, a three-person business on the Laboratory plan pays $859.00 a month at three thousand items and $859.00 at 10,000: the instrument charge is capped at $310. Solo carries 1,000 active items in standard capacity, with the Laboratory plan as the next step; Laboratory and Multi-site carry 10,000 active items in standard capacity, with more available as you grow — calibration and test-and-tag currently counted together. No module fee for doing both.
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?
- Yes. The document kind is stored on the document at issue, the batch grid takes a delivery of tagged items in one sitting, 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.
- Is there a separate fee for Test & Tag?
- No. Inspection reports, the batch grid and the test-and-tag fields are part of every published plan, with no module fee. You pay one subscription for both services.
- We hold thousands of tagged items. What does that cost?
- Calibration instruments and test-and-tag items currently count together, for billing and for standard capacity. On the Laboratory plan the instrument charge falls in bands and is capped at $310 a month, so within its standard capacity of 10,000 active items a three-person business pays $859.00 a month at three thousand items and $859.00 at 10,000. Above standard capacity, growth capacity is available from $149 a month, arranged on request and approved by your administrator. An eligible test-and-tag business can also apply for the Inspection plan, available on application, with 25,000 active test-and-tag items in standard capacity.
- Does it handle the intervals?
- Each item carries its inspection interval as your procedure sets it for its environment, and the recall 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.
30 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.