Calibration records and certificates for your lab

DashCal is a desktop app for labs that calibrate torque wrenches, pressure gauges, hydraulic and pneumatic tools and other test equipment. Look a tool up, enter its readings, and print the certificate. Every result is checked against the tool's stated accuracy as you type.

DashCal's New Certificate screen: a torque wrench with five test points, As Found and As Left readings, the previous calibration's tolerance graph, and the Generate certificate button. — New Certificate: tool, readings and the previous calibration side by side.

What DashCal does

Built around the work of a calibration bench, not a generic database.

Readings checked as you enter them: As Found and As Left at each test point, judged against the tool's accuracy: percent of reading, percent of full scale, engineering units, or accuracy rules you define.
The equipment you actually calibrate: Single-channel tools, pass/fail checks, multi-item sets, ratio multipliers, and two-channel tools like hydraulic torque wrenches with their correlation charts. Multiple samples per point, clockwise and counter-clockwise, and dynamic targets.
Custom workflows: Design your own readings sheet and certificate for equipment that doesn't fit the built-in types.
Full history for every tool: Each calibration is kept with its readings and a tolerance-used graph, so drift shows up before a tool fails. Due dates and intervals per tool, with defaults per customer and equipment type.
Customers, sites and standards: Customers, sites and contacts, plus your M&TE standards with their due dates, chosen per certificate. Labels for the tools you return.
Shared across the lab, works offline: Run a DashCal sync server on your own machine or server. Every computer keeps working without a connection and syncs when it's back. Pushes to simPRO and uploads to CalManager when you use them.

A DashCal calibration certificate: customer, equipment details, environment, and a results table with test points, indicated values, pass or fail, and tolerances.

The certificate

A clean one-page PDF your customers can read at a glance.

Your lab's branding: logo, address, disclaimer and certificate numbering.
Every point accounted for: test points, readings, pass/fail and tolerances, with As Found and As Left when you record both.
Standards and conditions: the M&TE used with due dates, temperature, humidity and procedure, and ISO/IEC 17025 certificates when you're accredited.
Reprints that match: each certificate stores exactly what it printed, so a reprint years later is the same document.

Download

Downloads are available to DashCal account holders. Sign in with your DashCal account to get the installer for your computer; after that, the app keeps itself up to date.

Windows	Installer and MSI, 64-bit and ARMWindows 10 and 11
macOS	Apple silicon and Intel
Linux	.deb, .rpm and .tar.gzUbuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, RHEL and others

Getting an account

DashCal accounts belong to your organization. Your administrator gives you an invite code to create your account; after that you can sign in with your email and password or with Google. Setting DashCal up for a new lab? Email admin@dashcal.org.