Core features of a calibration management software
Choosing the appropriate type of software for your organization is a complicated process, especially if you don’t know where to begin. The first factor to consider is the business goals and objectives you want to attain. Next, comes the utilization strategies you would want to adopt in achieving those. Different businesses have different calibration needs.
Listed below are some of the major features you should look for when deciding on a calibration management solution for your organization:
- Identify instruments that need to be calibrated
- Determine calibration requirements
- Establish calibration procedures
- Add, maintain and retrieve master equipment records, and calibration history records
- Automatically schedule future calibration due dates
- Develop corrective action procedures
- Document calibration results and activities
- Compile reports for calibration interval analysis
- Support audit trails for calibration systems to track changes in the database
- Backup and restore data internally
