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Calibration Control
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About Calibration Control
Calibration Control is a cloud-based solution designed to help businesses across various industry verticals such as healthcare, design engineering, metrology, mining, testing, aerospace, oil well, packaging, distribution and more manage preventative maintenance for equipment and streamline calibration cycles.
Key features of Calibration Control include compliance management, device history, due date tracking, out-of-tolerance notification and statistical data reporting. Teams using Calibration Control can track tools and equipment that require regular checks, ensuring compliance with numerous regulatory standards including ISO, FDA, ANSI and more. It comes with a sign-in mode, which allows users to grant staff members with role-based access to specific features and record their activities.
Calibration Control helps generate and find records using grid filtering capabilities, share the same database across multiple networks, and send automated emails to notify managers and workers about equipment that are due for calibration. The platform enables enterprises to customize field names, as well as scan and print bar-coded labels.
Calibration Control is available on an annual subscription and support is extended via phone and email.
Free fully-featured trial download and free live screen share demo available. Extremely configurable. Comply with ISO & FDA. Connect to local or cloud database. We can import existing data from any format.
Manage calibrations, maintenance, assets, documents, companies, departments, projects, work orders, and more. Features include report designer, certs, labels, required fields, process flow, barcodes, auto emails, calibration templates, asset transfers, check outs, job records, worksheets, uncertainty studies, etc.
Calibration Control pricing
Calibration Control does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Calibration Control paid version starts at USD 768.00/one-time.
Starting Price:
USD 768.00/one-time
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes
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Calibration Control Reviews
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David
- Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Value for Money
0
Features
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 05/11/2019
First Time Exposure to Calibration Control
Overall experience is quite positive! When I ran the limit of the Manual and needed further assistance, the APE Software Calibration Control Customer Service Representative, CSR, was extremely helpful, and is representative of the heart and strength of the company. She abundantly answered all of my questions and provided insight into the power of the software. Representative introduced me to the 'Teamviewer,' which, in my view, provides for dynamic customer / representative interface. Through the use of Teamviewer, more than vocalization of what to do, over the phone, was displayed as she showed me real time what to do and then let me demonstrate what she had shown me, in order to ensure I fully understood the concepts. Having been, myself, a trainer within Quality Assurance, the foregoing indelibly etched what I learned. Representative apparent sterling knowledge and understanding of the software spurred me, at one point, to ask her whether she was a program developer. I have had to make multiple calls seeking answers to perplexing questions and Representative has effectively answered all of them. Summarizing, based upon the power of the software and the company’s customer service, I strongly recommend this software.
Pros
There are several 'Pros:'
1. The program is virtually 'Instant On,' meaning very little time is lost waiting for the program to load,
2. An active user manual is available online for ready reference,
3. Updates are readily available,
4. Valuable informational status is readily seen, and
5. Fields have color coding to reflect current status of the tool.
Cons
The package is not readily intuitive, meaning use of the Manual and / or call-in to the company representative is needed; although, we used Excel, up to this point, to track calibration status and functioned from that point of view, which was one dimensional and did not provide enough information, the benefits of this package outweigh any negatives.
Cary
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Value for Money
0
Features
0
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 13/01/2016
APE software is an easy and efficient way to help capture calibration history for your company.
I have used this software for one year and I have about 5,000 gages currently that I handle. My overall experience with the software and APE staff has been very pleasant. I have experienced some issues stemming from security on my computer, knowledge and glitches in the software but I have had wonderful support every step of the way.
Customer service is SUPERIOR. The Ape staff is friendly, helpful and very knowledgeable. Mark has many years of experience and takes time to understand your needs. One particular time there was a glitch with my system and Mark walked me step by step through what happened, why it happened and although he had never had that problem before was able to fix the glitch with me. A big plus is that they usually answer the phone when you call but if they do not, leave a message; they return calls and emails in less than 24 hours generally and in most cases within the hour.
The biggest bonus is that Mark and Natasha are always listening to suggestions, concerns, and feedback and then look for solutions to incorporate it into the software to ensure that their customers are running efficiently. Natasha and I have worked on things before and when I would suggest or make a comment and she will stop me, write down the information and I will see the fix in a future update. The software I used prior did not do even 50% of what APE software does. APE gives me the flexibility to do what I need to do and with a professional look.
As for the software its very user friendly no matter what the level of computer knowledge the user has. I have not had time to read the manual and still have been able to print reports, attach documents, attach links to policies and procedures and print certificates of calibration among basic calibration record keeping. The software allows for such a variety of options so that you are able to accurately record everything happening with each gauge, tool, machine, etc. By using features like measurement groups, notes, check in and attachments it is easy to with a click of a button know your tolerance for a tool, when it was last calibrated, who checked it out last, where it is located and any documentation such as manufacturers instruction manual, certification, and repair information right from your pc. My previous software was unable to do that and did not always know how it was filed.
Jane
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Value for Money
3
Features
3
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4
3
Reviewed on 09/04/2018
Helps me to schedule calibration of our equipment.
Pros
Looks a lot like Windows so it gives a familiarity to the person using the tool. The customer support team has always responded promptly and always answered any questions I had.
Cons
I don't really use the software to its potential so I can't really say there are cons. I basically use it to schedule the calibration of our equipment.
Ronny
- Industry: Military
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 17/09/2020
Outstanding Customer Service and Value
My overall experience with Calibration Control has been fantastic. I would say the best part about the software are the people behind it. The APE team's customer service really makes the difference. They are always quick to respond, willing to help with any issue and always seem to go above and beyond to meet the customer needs.
Pros
APE Calibration Control is incredibly easy to use software that puts information regarding your tools in a organized and quickly searchable format. Even with extremely limited interaction with this software you can quickly the needed requirements for calibration completed and documented quickly.
Cons
occasionally the software losses connection to the database or the number generation for new calibrations is not unique.
Jim
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Value for Money
0
Features
0
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 11/04/2012
Feature rich, this system is easy to use and transfers old data from V 4.x
This is the first Calibration software I've had occasion to use. Our previous version, V 4.x purchased by a previous administration, was OK but our Auditor did not like it.
I believe it was due to the old interface and opportunity for errors. This version is updated, modern and has a much nicer look and feel for data input and reporting. I expect he will be satisfied with the data output.
We transferred about 1,400 tools from our old system to the new and have added almost 200 more since then.
After we get our tooling current from the data transfer we plan on investigating the Templates for more rapid entry of data.
We are also going to begin to use this database and Bar Coded labels for Asset Management.
I can't wait until we can get the software upgrade to make our jobs even easier.
All in all, this is a great system at a great value that is performing above our expectations.
Pros
Implementation and support were superb using the telephone and Teamviewer application. Installation and personalized training in one step! Our data migrated without a hitch. Our Technician said the interface was familiar and has needed virtually no support while calibrating our tools. We purchased the label maker along with the software upgrade and, after a few modifications to a standard label, we have several custom labels for different applications.
Cons
A few glitches and inconsistencies in our old data caused some heartache in sorting and assigning new tool identifications; Good news was that this will be solved by an upcoming revision, but this is the only drawback so far. We did buy the Bar Code Wand but can't print Bar Codes on everything we'd like due to the size of the label and space restrictions and physical size of the bar code itself. This is not a software problem but it is something to consider for labels.
