Calibration Services in Buena Park

Fabrication work is measured in torque, force, and pressure

Metal fabrication and assembly generate a different instrument mix than a machine shop. Alongside the expected calipers and micrometers, fabrication accounts send us torque wrenches and torque screwdrivers from assembly cells, force gauges from pull-test and crimp verification, pressure gauges off hydraulic presses and weld gas systems, and hardness testers from incoming material inspection.

We calibrate torque from 0.5 ozf·in to 1,000 lbf·ft and handle force by dead weight. Pressure runs from −14.7 to 10,000 psi, with hydraulic work on a Fluke 7615 and pneumatic to 2,500 psi on a 7250xi at ±0.005% of reading. Hardness tester repair is a service we still perform in-house, which is increasingly unusual.

Food production adds sanitation-grade instruments to the list

Buena Park has long-standing food and beverage production, and food plants bring instruments that live in wash-down environments: scales from batching and packaging, thermometers and probes from cook and chill steps, pressure and vacuum gauges on process skids, and timers on hold steps. These fail differently than shop tools — corrosion and thermal cycling rather than drops — and they tend to need a shorter recall interval as a result.

Our temperature and humidity and mass laboratories cover both. If a plant runs validated processes, we also perform Kaye validation for IQ/OQ/PQ and AMS 2750 surveys where thermal processing is involved.

Two counties, one supplier

Because Buena Park sits on the county line, companies here often run facilities on both sides of it — a plant in Buena Park and a warehouse in Cerritos or La Mirada. That normally means two calibration relationships and two recall calendars. Our free routes cover Orange County every Monday and Wednesday and Los Angeles County every Tuesday and Thursday, so both sites can sit on one account with one schedule and one certificate format.

For equipment that should not leave the building, on-site calibration is available for dimensional, mechanical, and electrical work, scheduled roughly two weeks in advance.

The paperwork your customers ask for

American Gage holds ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation from A2LA under certificate 4296.01 and complies with ANSI/NCSL Z540-1 and Z540.3. Certificates document as-found and as-left readings, measurement uncertainty, NIST traceability, and the decision rule with TUR. Our quality system is compliant to ISO 10012 and applicable portions of AS9100, IATF 16949, ISO 13485, and FDA 21 CFR.

For companies supplying aerospace or automotive primes, the relevant reading is our AS9100 calibration requirements guide. Supplier-qualification packets with the accreditation certificate and current scope are available on request, which usually settles a purchasing questionnaire in one email.

Industries we serve in Buena Park

• Metal Fabrication
• Food & Beverage Production
• Aerospace Suppliers
• Distribution & Warehousing
• Plastics & Injection Molding