After the fire in our facility in July 2011 we spent the next several months rebuilding our calibration lab in a temporary facility and reactivating our ISO 17025 accreditation. Due to the extensive damage incurred on our primary standard system, and the critical need to restore our ability to provide accredited calibrations as soon as possible, we chose to focus on restoring the accreditation of our transfer and working standards first. The ISO 17025 accreditation of our transfer and working standards in our temporary facility was reactivated in April 2012.
During the following year and a half we designed and constructed a new permanent calibration facility, moved into the new facility, and then performed the actions required to restore the accreditation of the working and transfer standards for the calibration systems as installed in the new facility.
Two years after the fire, we finally had the time to work on our primary standard system. Over the last several months we have completely redesigned our primary standard system with new state of the art proximity sensors, timers, pressure and temperature transducers, and developed enhanced operating software to control and monitor the whole system. After months of debug and fine tuning the operation of the system we have produced the data required to restore our accreditation for the primary standard system. We are proud to announce that as of today, April 25, 2014, we have received accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2005, and ANSI/NCSL Z540-1-1994 from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) to add our completely redesigned and enhanced primary standard system to our scope of accreditation.
A lot of work from a lot of people went into fully recovering from the fire of almost three years ago. This was the last step. Great job by all!