Maximizing Profits: 7 Strategies for Commercial Calibration Business Success in 2025

What strategies can you implement to maintain efficient and safe operations during a recession?

Your commercial calibration lab offers critical services for essential businesses like hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, aviation firms, and manufacturing facilities. The calibration process is highly hands-on and requires in-house operations.

So, how can you maintain efficient and safe operations during a recession?

The answer lies in understanding how to implement lean management principles in commercial calibration. Metquay's commercial calibration management software is designed with lean management principles in mind, making it ideally suited to help your lab enhance its efficiency both now and in the future.

Applying Lean Management to a Commercial Calibration Lab

Here are some ways that your commercial calibration lab can apply lean management principles to run more efficiently.

#1 Defects

Any factor that necessitates redoing a task or process is considered a defect. In a calibration lab, this might involve anything from setup issues to entering incorrect details on a calibration certificate. Transitioning from manual input to commercial calibration software can remove these defects, thereby saving time and money. Using Metquay’s calibration worksheets, technicians can establish their own data formats and validations. Once these are defined and validated, they can operate continuously without concerns about human error.

#2 Transportation

Frequently moving back and forth between the shop floor and your calibration lab to collect items is inefficient. Utilize Metquay’s logistics and tracking module to immediately scan equipment into the software when it arrives at the receiving department. After scanning, a new job is added to the queue, and the relevant department is notified to take appropriate action.

#3 Motion

Manually entering handwritten data into a spreadsheet is an avoidable step that may result in expensive errors. Metquay offers a single point of data entry, minimizing unnecessary effort. Additionally, Metquay provides access to the instrument's historical data, facilitating swift comparisons and process management.

#4 Inventory

Do you possess more inventory than necessary? Although keeping some calibrated spares is usually a good practice, storing unused items leads to waste and is unnecessary. With Metquay’s inventory module, you can monitor consumables and parts individually, manage return merchandise authorizations (RMA), and notify users when a specific product's stock is running low.

#5 Waiting

Lacking the proper equipment for calibration can result in significant time loss while waiting for the necessary tools. Metquay’s master instrument module assists in managing your calibration standards and monitoring calibration due dates, minimizing downtime during re-calibration and preparation for use.

#6 Over-processing

Collecting more data than needed exemplifies over-processing. Minimize over-processing with Metquay’s commercial calibration lab software. This software allows you to use one worksheet to manage various equipment by establishing checks and balances, tolerance lookup, range, and unit options. Furthermore, you only need to configure your uncertainty calculations for a piece of equipment once, and they will be automatically prepared for the next calibration.

#7 Non-utilized talent

Your laboratory must make the most of all available resources, particularly when operating with limited staff. By using commercial calibration lab software, you can minimize the need for manpower through the automation of data documentation, reporting, and calibration alerts, allowing your team to focus on the essential aspects of your business. Moreover, Metquay’s reports can monitor the duration of each calibration, the number of iterations before approval, resource usage, and more, enabling management to make informed decisions on cost control.

How Commercial Calibration Lab Software Increases Efficiency

The pandemic has highlighted the necessity for businesses across all sectors to function remotely. It is now the ideal moment to transition from manual data entry to automated software.

Switching to Metquay offers several benefits, including:

• Prepare calibration certificates with a single click, fully compliant with ISO 17025 and FDA 21 CFR part 11.

• Provide auditor access for conducting remote audits.

• Utilize an automated system to minimize manpower requirements.

• Manage customer assets and data effortlessly with asset management.

• Share information with clients digitally using cloud-based data, eliminating the need for paper.

• Receive calibration-due alerts, giving customers advance notice for upcoming calibrations.

• Configure uncertainty calculations for equipment once, and have them ready for future use.

Metquay’s calibration software for commercial use enables your lab to run efficiently and lean, allowing you to meet business demands even in an economic downturn. Metquay is now providing free trials and consultations to assist labs during challenging periods. To discover more about our products and services, email us at consulting@metquay.com or visit https://www.metquay.com.

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