Lab Equipment Calibration and Validation
Comprehensive Lab Equipment Calibration
Our lab equipment calibration, validation, and repair services are critical to keeping your lab equipment and instruments operating at peak efficiency to avoid extended downtime that imperils your project schedule.
Coverage From Coast to Coast
No matter your location, you can benefit from our cutting-edge equipment services. We serve the entire United States, including major Life Sciences hubs such as California, Washington, Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, and Massachusetts.
Comprehensive Equipment Calibration
Our mission is to provide accurate, timely, documented calibrations that our customers can trust. We have a full-service ISO 17025 A2LA Accredited and ISO 9001:2015 AMS Certified calibration lab dedicated to providing premier instrument calibration services for a quality experience.
Basing Your Calibration Provider Choice Solely on Price?
You Get What You Pay For
Calibration service providers operate and compete based on profit margin. The less time they spend calibrating an instrument, the less they need to charge, and the more competitive they appear to be on paper.
Fully accredited, Flagship Lab Services uses comprehensive procedures to specify uncertainty levels for calibration standards, determine pre-calibration steps to ensure proper equipment operation, and define the required calibration points used to verify your instrument’s full range of operation.
Equipment We Calibrate
All General Lab Equipment
With mail-in, pickup, delivery, and on-site services available for all common lab equipment, you’ll be satisfied with your calibration experience, from the delivery and detail to the documentation you’ll receive at the end of the process.
- Freezers
- Refrigerators
- Liquid handlers
- Spectrophotometers
- Balances
- Plate Readers
- Autoclaves
- Incubators
- Centrifuges
- HPLC
- Thermal Cyclers (PCR)
- Pressure Gauge
- Torque Testers
- and much more!
Weights Balance Scale Calibration
If you use a balance or scale for any of your measuring, you know how accurate and precise it must be for the desired results. Over time and with continuous use, the unit can become dirty and unreliable.
Our weights/balance/scale instrument calibration processes (which include our ISO 17025 A2LA Accreditation and ISO 9001:2015 AMS Certification) ensures that your equipment will be calibrated and science-ready.
PCR Instruments
Since the light source changes over time, it’s recommended that halogen-based instrumentation be calibrated every six months, and LED-based be calibrated annually. The calibration procedure is identical to the manufacturer’s recommendations.
Real-Time PCR Instruments Covered:
- Quant Studio 3
- Quant Studio 5
- Quant Studio 6
- Quant Studio 7
- Quant Studio 12K (non-OA)
- 7300, 7500, 7500 Fast
- Step One, Step One Plus
- ViiA 7
Biological Safety Cabinets (BSCs)
We certify biological safety cabinets to meet NSF/ANSI 49 section Annex F Field Certification as well as the manufacturer’s specifications.
Primary Tests
- Inflow velocity measurements
- Downflow velocity measurements
- HEPA filter integrity testing
- Airflow visualization testing
- Site installation testing and alarm calibration
- Non-viable particle counting (optional)
- Worker comfort and safety testing, including electrical safety, vibration, sound, & fluorescent/UV light (optional)
- Decontaminate BSCs with vaporized hydrogen peroxide bioquell equipment.
Cleanroom Testing
We test and certify cleanrooms to ISO 14644-1, ISO 144544-2, ISO 144644-3, and EU Annex 1 to ensure they are functioning to specific parameters and ISO classification.
Primary Tests
- Airflow volume/velocity readings
- Room air exchange rates
- HEPA filter integrity testing
- Non-viable particle counting
- Temperature/relative humidity testing
Optional Tests
- Airflow visualization testing/smoke testing
- Lighting, vibration, & sound testing
- Cleanroom recovery testing
Isolators
Isolators are used in general industry as well as compounding pharmacies. There are two types of isolators: positively pressurized aseptic isolators (CAI) and negative containment isolators (CACI). Both are primary engineering controls designed to meet the needs of USP Standards <797> and <800> for the compounding pharmacy.
Isolator Tests
- HEPA filter integrity testing
- Airflow velocity & volume
- Chamber pressure testing
- Work zone sterility testing
- Product ingress/egress testing
- Recovery time determination
- Glove/sleeve breach testing
- Interchange particle purge time determination
- Particle containment integrity testing – CACI only
- Volatile hazardous drug containment – CACI only
- Interchange particle purge time determination – CACI only
cGMP Requirements for Your...
We can help you determine these requirements for your:
- Facility (sanitation, design, and construction)
- Equipment (mechanical, electronic, environmental)
- Production and process
- Holding and distribution
- Consumer complaints
- Record keeping
Lab Calibration FAQ's
In the context of lab research, it typically means adjusting or standardizing your equipment so it can be more precise. This can include marking the graduations on a measuring device, or figuring out how much an instrument deviates from standard and adjusting for that difference.
Calibration is the procedure of comparing a reference with a known error margin against a device (for example a pressure gauge) under test. If the device doesn’t match the reference, then we adjust it to match, or at least come close, the desired measuring accuracy. The reference measurement instrument must be more accurate than the pressure gauge to be calibrated, and it must also be traceable. To calibrate a pressure gauge, we will need to check the values throughout the entire measuring range, zero point, intermediate values, and the full-scale value.
Calibration is a comparison between a known measurement (the standard) and the measurement using your instrument.
It is important to calibrate equipment to help assure accurate measurements and production of quality products with reduced errors and recalls. It is also important to calibrate equipment to foster innovation and the development of new technologies, as accurate measurements are foundational to both.