Endress+Hauser Flow’s calibration laboratory has been accredited in compliance with ISO/IEC 17025 since 1994, confirming its position as a market leader consistently providing services of excellence.

One of the most important disciplines in the flow market is calibration. This ensures that the metrological performance of each flowmeter corresponds to the technical specification given by the manufacturer.

As such, demonstrating competence is a crucial factor supporting the credibility of calibration laboratories.

From the very beginning, the ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation has covered Endress+Hauser Flow’s product centres for flow measurement in Reinach (Switzerland) and Cernay (France).

Specialists from both product centres made this accomplishment possible. They were convinced that this was only the first step in the accreditation journey.

The process also relied on the crucial cooperation with the National Metrology Institutes of Switzerland (METAS) and Germany (PTB), along with the local Swiss Accreditation Service (SAS).

Other product centres in the US, India, China and Brazil also built calibration facilities.

For Endress+Hauser Flow, accreditation according to ISO/IEC 17025 of all of its flow calibration laboratories have been a key focus to convince customers of their excellence and trustworthiness.

In this regard, the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) ISO/IEC 17025 standard offers a comprehensive framework to check compliance with the requirements for competence in calibration and testing laboratories.

This accreditation not only confirms competence and harmonised services of laboratories providing calibration services, but also serves to overcome trade barriers in the global market.

This is because ISO/IEC 17025 compliance is monitored and affirmed by national accreditation bodies, which are usually also members of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC).

Most of these bodies are signatories to the ILAC Mutual Recognition Agreement (ILAC MRA), which represents one of the most important advantages of ISO/IEC 17025 accreditations: Full international recognition and comparability of the calibration certificates issued.

Endress+Hauser Groups global calibration network includes not only nearly 90 stationary but also more than 50 mobile flow calibration rigs, located in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Today, new key objectives, such as advancing in their digitalisation are planned under the perspective of fulfilling ISO/IEC 17025 requirements as well.