Mountz Calibration Lab In San Jose, CA Receives ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation

San Jose, CA - Mountz, Inc. receives ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation from ACLASS accreditation services for its calibration lab in San Jose, CA. The ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation ensures the Mountz Calibration Lab operates with a quality system, document control, corrective and preventive action, accommodation and environmental conditions, equipment, measurement uncertainty, evidence of traceability and calibration results that are technically competent for customers. The Mountz calibration lab in Alabama was accredited in June 2008.

"All Mountz facilities that provide calibration services to our growing customer base will be ISO 17025 accredited by the end of 2009," said Brad Mountz, President & CEO of Mountz, Inc.

"Our production laboratory in Alabama was the first accredited to serve our broad customer base of over 5000 customers. Mountz San Jose accreditation ensures that our manufacturing division and our west coast customer base receive the same level of service and product offering. Next we will focus our attention on our NAFTA partners in Canada and Mexico by accrediting these important and growing calibration laboratories."

Adhering to an international standard, the Mountz Calibration Lab follows a stringent testing calibration procedure that provides traceability and documentation control for customers. The accurate calibration of torque tools is a crucial quality control process for manufacturing companies. Any lapses in this process can affect production yields, manufacturing costs, product quality, product reliability, reputation and profitability. Torque equipment calibrated regularly and correctly provides repeatable accuracy and operates properly.

Calibration certificates for tools provide customers with traceability for their quality control and ISO documentation. The calibration document contains information on tool tested, tool serial number, equipment used, standards used, uncertainty of measurement and actual measurement data.

Mountz Calibration Services provides after sales calibration services of Mountz and competitive torque products. Services include torque tool calibration and repair of all types of torque products, calibration of digital torque wrenches, power tools, heavy torque multipliers, hydraulic tools and torque transducer calibration. Capabilities exceed 25,000 N.m. Mountz service technicians have leading industry training and are specialists in torque tool service and repair.

ACLASS Accreditation Services, provides laboratory accreditation for testing and calibration laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025. ACLASS is internationally recognized by ILAC, APLAC and IAAC through the signing of Multilateral Recognition Arrangements (MRAs). These arrangements facilitate the acceptance of test and calibration data between ACLASS accredited laboratories and the international community.

SOURCE: Mountz, Inc.