Metrology

Ensure measurement accuracy

Required every day

An essential service

When you weigh the fruit in the supermarket, or put gas in the car, you will want 1 kg to be 1 kg or 1 liter to 1 liter.

Or when you buy a medicine, you’ll want to be sure that the dosages of your ingredients have been set correctly.

Metrology is this: the guarantee that equipment that measures processes and physical phenomena (weight, volume, temperature, hardness, sound, light, chemical composition, …) do it correctly.

And this is done through specific and globally regulated processes, comparing the measurements of each equipment with standards of very high precision and proceeding with the calibration (adjustment) of the measuring equipment, so that they are as precise as they can be.

Ensure accuracy

Labmetro, ISQ metrology laboratory, accredited by IPAC, the national entity member of EA (European Cooperation for Accreditation), provides metrology services (calibrations, testing and verifications) to both organizations and individuals, further assisting them in complying with the legal requirements and developing solutions that contribute for the success of their clients.

Its highly experienced and always available team has the capacity to identify and respond to the specific needs if its clients, offering complete, unique and innovative solutions, thus making it the most specialized laboratory in Portugal.

We render metrology services in healthcare, acoustics and vibration, dimensional, electric and radiofrequency, gas and flow, mass, volume and force, optics and topography, pressure, temperature and moisture areas, along with services for car inspection outlets and car dealers.

In the healthcare sector, activity is carried via Labmetro Saúde, focused on the performance of equipment testing and calibration in clinics and hospitals.

We have also a range of mobile laboratories and the capacity to perform works at the client’s premises, rendering production processes easier, thereby allowing for quicker service with significant reduction of stoppages.

We also offer the LABMETRO ONLINE web service, granting the possibility to check at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification, further granting access to the respective Certificates and Reports.

ISQ OFFER

Acoustics and Vibration

Accredited acoustics and vibration laboratory for the calibration of equipment associated to noise measurement and audiometric clinical trials.

It’s the only laboratory in Portugal recognised as Metrological Verification Body in the acoustic area and suitable to perform metrological verification of sound level meters.

We have the capacity to perform calibrations in our laboratory and at the client’s premises.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE service granting the possibility to check at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or equipment verification and providing access to the respective Certificates and Reports.

SERVICES

Calibration of acoustic and vibration equipment

Car Inspection

Accredited laboratory to calibrate and test all kinds of equipment at car inspection centres of both A and C category, a true specialized laboratory in the development of methods and procedures of onsite calibration/verification.

ISQ has 5 mobile laboratories performing calibrations and testing.

It’s the only laboratory performing calibrations of weighing systems with associated braking analyser for both cars and lorries up to 6000 kgf/wheel using a standard load cell.

As Metrologic Verification Body, we perform metrological checking operations in the car sector (opacimeters and exhaust gas analysers).
We have the capacity to perform calibrations, testing and measurements in our laboratory or at the customer’s premises.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE services, thus enabling to check at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification and to have fully safe access to the respective certificates and reports.

SERVICES

Calibration equipment for the car sector

Dimensional

Accredited metrology laboratory which develops new techniques and solutions of dimensional testing, calibration and measurement.

We perform dimensional equipment calibration to check both roughness and hardness and to test and inspect components.

As Metrological Verification Body we also perform metrological verification operations on meters.

We have the capacity to perform calibrations, testing and measurement at our laboratory or at the customer’s premises.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE service, granting the possibility to check at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification, further providing access to the respective Certificates and Reports

SERVICES

Dimensional equipment calibration, roughness and hardness

Dimensional testing and measurement of components

Electric and Radiofrequency

Accredited laboratory, performing equipment calibrations in the electric and radiofrequency area.

We have the capacity to perform such calibrations in our laboratory, at the mobile laboratory or at the customer’s premises.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE service, granting the possibility to check at any moment the status of calibration, testing, measurement or verification.

SERVICES

Calibration of electric equipment and radiofrequency

Gas and Flow

Accredited gas and flow laboratory where we perform gas equipment calibrations to ascertain the flow, volume, speed and amount of material, further testing volumetric gas meters and gas analyzers.

As Metrological Verification Body, we perform metrological verification operations on both gas and LPG meters.

We have the capacity to perform calibrations and testing in our laboratory and at the customer’s premises.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE services, granting the possibility to check at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification, further providing access to the respective certificates and reports.

SERVICES

Calibration of gas flow, gas volume, speed and amount of substance gases equipment

Testing of gas volume and gas flow meters

Mass, Volume and Strength

Accredited laboratory performing mass, volume, binary and strength calibrations, further performing tests to ascertain the minimum weight in weighing instruments.

As Metrological Verification Body, we perform metrological verification operations in the area of force.

We have the capacity to perform calibrations, testing and measurements in our laboratory or at the customer’s premises.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE services, thus enabling checking at any moment to check the status equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification, granting fully safe access to the respective certificates and reports.

SERVICES

Calibration in the areas of mass, volume and force

Tests to ascertain the minimum allowed weight in weighing instruments

Optics and Topography

ISQ has the only accredited laboratory in Portugal for calibration of equipment in the areas of photometry and topography.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE service, thus enabling checking at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification, granting fully secure access to the respective certificates and reports.

SERVICES

Calibration of optical and topographic equipment

Pressure

ISQ has an accredited laboratory for calibration of pressure and high vacuum equipment.

We have the capacity to perform calibrations in laboratory, in the mobile laboratory of at the customer’s premises.

SERVICES

Calibration of pressure equipment

Healthcare

Accredited laboratory performing testing and calibration on life support equipment as well as on laboratory and hospital equipment.

ISQ offers a global solution on both safety and radiological protection to ensure that installations, equipment and its professionals comply with the legal provisions and make correct use of radiological equipment.

We have the capacity to perform calibrations and testing in laboratory, at the mobile laboratory or at the customer’s premises.

ISQ offers to customers the LABMETRO ONLINE services, thus enabling checking at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification, granting full access to the respective certificates and reports.

SERVICES

Assessment / Inspection of radiologic safety conditions

Calibration and testing of clinic hospital equipment

Life support equipment calibration

Temperature and Humidity

Accredited laboratory to perform calibrations and testing in the areas of temperature and humidity.

As Metrologic Verification Body, we perform metrological checks on temperature recorders of products due for transportation, storage and distribution and cooled, frozen and ultra-frozen foodstuffs and ice creams.

We have the capacity to perform calibrations and testing and measurements at laboratory and at the client’s premises.

ISQ offers to clients the LABMETRO ONLINE services, thus enabling checking at any moment the status of equipment calibration, testing, measurement or verification, further granting fully safe access to the respective certificates and reports.

SERVICES

Equipment calibration for temperature and humidity

Temperature and humidity testing

Metrological Verification

ISQ is qualified and formally designated as metrological verification body by IPQ – Instituto Português da Qualidade – the Portuguese authority for Legal Metrology, member and signatory of the OIML (International Organization of Legal Metrology) and WELMEC (European Cooperation in Legal Metrology) agreements.

In the scope of these designations ISQ provides metrological control services on the following measuring instruments:

Non-automatic weighting scales instruments
Mass measuring
Pool table and ping-pong time counters
Continuous totalizers
Measument of strength of testing equipment
Length measument instruments
Sound level meters
Gas counters and volume conversion devices for domestic, commercial and light industry use
Temperature registration devices for use in transportation and storage of deep freezed, refrigerated, freezed food products and creams
Automotive exhaust gas analyzers
Opacimeters
Continuous and dynamic measuring systems for use with liquids excluding water (combustible GPL measurement supply systems)
Fixed installation storage tanks
Automatic level gauges for measuring the level of liquid in storage tanks
Road and rail tankers