Standards
Calibration management for your standard
Whatever you are audited against, the calibration basics are the same: traceable records and action when an instrument drifts. Pick your standard to see how Axiospec handles them.
ISO/IEC 17025
Testing & Calibration Laboratories
ISO/IEC 17025 requires a lab to calibrate the equipment whose accuracy or measurement uncertainty affects its results, make the calibration status of each item easy to identify, and keep metrological traceability to the SI through an unbroken, documented chain of calibrations (clauses 6.4 and 6.5). It is the international standard for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, and it puts measurement traceability, equipment control, and defensible records at the center of everything a lab does. Axiospec gives you a single system to manage equipment status, capture the traceability chain, and produce records an assessor can follow from instrument to certificate.
Read moreISO 9001
Quality Management Systems
ISO 9001 clause 7.1.5 requires that the equipment you use to verify product conformity is fit for purpose, maintained, and supported by retained evidence. Where measurement traceability is required, clause 7.1.5.2 adds calibration at planned intervals against traceable standards, status identification, safeguarding, and action when equipment is found unfit. The checklist below breaks that into what an auditor looks for. Axiospec gives you a running system to support the workflows behind the clause, whether you are setting up calibration tracking for the first time or replacing software that fights you at audit time.
Read moreAS9100
Aerospace Quality Management
AS9100 clause 7.1.5 includes all of ISO 9001's calibration requirements. Measuring equipment is calibrated or verified at set intervals against traceable standards, its calibration status is identified, it is protected from damage, and earlier results are assessed when it is found out of tolerance. AS9100 adds a register of measuring equipment with its calibration method and acceptance criteria, a process to recall equipment for calibration, and suitable environmental conditions. The checklist below breaks this into what an auditor checks.
Read moreISO 13485
Medical Device Quality Management
ISO 13485 clause 7.6 requires that monitoring and measuring equipment is calibrated or verified at defined intervals against traceable standards, its calibration status identified, the equipment safeguarded and protected, records retained, and the validity of previous results assessed when equipment is found out of calibration. The checklist below breaks that into the obligations an auditor checks. Axiospec gives device manufacturers documented, attributable calibration records and the reverse traceability regulators expect when a measurement is later called into question.
Read moreIATF 16949
Automotive Quality Management
IATF 16949 is the automotive quality management standard built on ISO 9001, and clause 7.1.5 is where it tightens the rules on monitoring and measuring resources. It expects measurement systems analysis, calibration and verification against traceable standards, detailed records on every gauge that supports product conformity, and a defined scope for any laboratory that does the work. The checklist below breaks clause 7.1.5 into the obligations an auditor checks. Axiospec gives automotive suppliers one system to keep those resources under control, capture the data behind each calibration, and produce records a customer or third-party auditor can follow from instrument to reference standard.
Read moreAPI Spec Q1
Oil & Gas Manufacturing Quality
API Spec Q1 is the American Petroleum Institute's quality management system standard for organizations that manufacture products for the oil and gas industry, and clause 5.8 is where it controls testing, measuring, monitoring, and detection equipment (TMMDE in the 10th Edition, the edition in force since the last 9th Edition certificates were withdrawn in March 2026). It asks for a documented procedure, a registry of uniquely identified equipment, traceable calibration at defined intervals, visible status, and action when equipment is found out of calibration. The checklist below breaks clause 5.8 into the obligations an API auditor checks. Axiospec gives you a single system to keep that registry, capture each calibration against traceable standards, and produce the equipment records an audit follows.
Read moreISO 45001
Occupational Health & Safety Management
ISO 45001 is the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems. Most of it is about hazards, risk, and worker participation rather than calibration, but clause 9.1.1 puts a firm expectation on the equipment you use to evaluate OH&S performance: gas detectors, noise dosimeters, air sampling pumps, and pressure or torque tools only give trustworthy readings when they are calibrated and in date. The checklist below shows where calibration lives in the standard. Axiospec keeps that safety-critical monitoring equipment tracked, current, and documented so the measurements behind your OH&S decisions rest on instruments you can stand behind.
Read moreISO 10012
Measurement Management Systems
ISO 10012:2026 sets the requirements for a measurement management system: the organized way a company makes sure it can trust its measurement results. It replaced ISO 10012:2003 and manages measurement as processes, from the requirements for a measurement through the release of results, with equipment and traceability as one part of that. Axiospec gives you one system to record each instrument, capture its calibration against traceable standards, and keep the calibration records an ISO 10012 reviewer expects to follow.
Read moreANSI/NCSL Z540.3
Calibration of Measuring & Test Equipment
ANSI/NCSL Z540.3 sets requirements for a calibration system that controls the accuracy of measuring and test equipment. Its best known rule, sub-clause 5.3 b, limits the probability of a false accept to 2% when a calibration verifies a tolerance, and allows a test uncertainty ratio of 4:1 or better when that probability cannot practicably be estimated. The checklist below follows the sub-clauses that NASA describes in its public documents. Axiospec gives your program one place to capture each calibration with its readings and reference standard, while measurement uncertainty and decision-rule analysis remain the work of your metrologist.
Read moreISO/IEC 17020
Inspection Bodies
ISO/IEC 17020 clause 6.2 requires an inspection body to define the equipment that significantly influences inspection results, calibrate it under an established program, keep measurements traceable and deal with defective equipment. ISO/IEC 17020:2026 replaced the 2012 edition in March 2026 and moved some of those clauses, so the checklist below gives both sets of numbers from the UKAS gap analysis. Axiospec gives inspection bodies one register to identify each instrument and capture its calibration against traceable standards.
Read moreISO 15189
Medical Laboratories
ISO 15189:2022 requires a medical laboratory to control the equipment that can influence its results (clause 6.4) and to calibrate it under written procedures with metrological traceability of results (clause 6.5). Clause 6.5.2 also asks for a defined response when a calibration goes out of control. The checklist below breaks those clauses into what an assessor checks, and Axiospec keeps the instrument register and calibration records in one system, while method verification, quality control and interpretation of patient results stay with the laboratory.
Read moreNadcap
Aerospace Special Process Accreditation
Nadcap accreditation covers the special processes the aerospace supply chain depends on, and the measuring and test equipment behind those processes is a frequent audit focus. Equipment must be controlled, calibrated against traceable standards, and documented in detail. Axiospec keeps your measuring equipment under control and your calibration records, with as-found and as-left readings and full traceability, ready for a Nadcap auditor without a week of archaeology.
Read moreASME NQA-1
Nuclear Quality Assurance
ASME NQA-1 sets quality assurance requirements for nuclear facilities and applications, with firm expectations on the control of measuring and test equipment. Equipment must be calibrated against traceable standards, identified by status, and acted on when found out of tolerance, all under retained, defensible records. Axiospec gives NQA-1 programs one system to capture each calibration with its readings and reference standard and to keep records an auditor can follow.
Read moreFSSC 22000
Food Safety System Certification
FSSC 22000 is a food safety management certification scheme built on ISO 22000:2018, and its calibration obligations come from two places: clause 8.7 of ISO 22000, Control of monitoring and measuring, and FSSC additional requirement 2.5.9, which asks for a program to calibrate and verify equipment used for quality and quantity control. The checklist below shows where calibration sits in the scheme as of Version 7, published in May 2026. Axiospec keeps that measuring equipment tracked, current, and documented, so the measurements behind your food safety decisions rest on instruments you can stand behind.
Read moreISO 14001
Environmental Management Systems
In the 2015 edition, ISO 14001 clause 9.1.1 asks an organization to use monitoring and measurement equipment that is calibrated or verified as appropriate, to maintain it, and to retain documented information as evidence of the results. ISO 14001:2026 keeps that clause number, and UKAS rates the change to it as minor. The checklist below shows where calibration sits in the standard, and Axiospec keeps that monitoring equipment tracked, current, and documented so the measurements behind your environmental decisions rest on instruments you can stand behind.
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