Q-PLUS is a leading precision dimensional measurement laboratory that, since 1987, has provided a one-stop, under-one-roof solution to all of your precision measurement, inspection, engineering, quality assurance related, and metrology equipment needs. Q-PLUS Labs is ISO 9001 registered and ISO 17025 accredited. Additionally, we are proud to have earned the numerous formal customer approvals that we actively maintain. Q-PLUS is also a long-time member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). All measurements performed are traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (N.I.S.T.). Q-PLUS exists to meet the quality needs and challenges related to the manufacturing and perfection of your product.
Q-PLUS thinks outside the box on behalf of the customer. Being mindful of our customers' needs, we are always thinking several moves ahead with regard to your product's manufacturing process. We take our job very seriously. In this business, we've got to do our job right, no exceptions. What that means is Q-PLUS will not cut corners. Shortcuts are a preface to problems. While we are always mindful of the importance of cost-effectiveness, we’ve built our reputation as being the most "valuable" in the industry.
Q-PLUS tackles projects fearlessly and with total confidence. As perfectionists with decades of experience and education to our credit, we intimately understand our role in the overall process. Paramount to doing the job right is understanding the myriad manufacturing methods employed today, proper interpretation of engineering drawings and requirements, and the metrology equipment used to measure. We understand the importance of keeping up with the latest technology and feel it is our responsibility to do so.
Challenge: Unequipped to handle demanding requirements?
Solution: We use the latest technology available!
Challenge: Lacking the personnel to do the job correctly and fast?
Solution: Consider Q-PLUS an extension of your own company!
Challenge: Questioning the cost effectiveness of using an outside vendor?
Solution: You'll find our prices refreshingly fair and competitive.
Whatever measurement, inspection, engineering, or quality-related challenges you are facing, we have the solutions.
Q-PLUS was founded in 1987 by a veteran metrologist and quality manager with over 25 years of industry-specific experience and formally educated in the field. Since then, Q-PLUS has been committed to serving customers across the nation and around the world by offering the finest in inspection, measurement, and engineering technologies, principles, and applications as well as attentive and responsive customer service. We provide solutions to a wide array of small and large companies alike for such industries as Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Commercial and Medical.
Q-PLUS Labs is ISO 9001 registered and ISO 17025 accredited. Additionally, we are proud to have earned the numerous formal customer approvals that we actively maintain. Q-PLUS is also a long-time member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
Additionally our Quality Program meets the Nuclear Industry requirements of 10CFR50 Appendix B, NQA-1, and ANSI/NCSL Z540.1-1994. Q-PLUS Labs accepts 10CFR21.
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Q-PLUS is located at 13765 Alton Parkway, Unit E, Irvine, California in the heart of the larger Irvine Spectrum business park, part of what has become known as the Tech Coast. Our expansive facility is amply equipped and staffed to support the broad range of services we offer and products we sell. Our sealed laboratory is isolated from the rest of our facilities and fully environmentally controlled via dedicated control systems. Much of our customer’s work is proprietary in nature. Accordingly, all associated confidentiality requirements are strictly adhered to. The security of our customers’ interests is given the very highest priority.
Our laboratory employs a vast spectrum of available and proprietary technologies including numerous manual and automatic CMMs, many with multi-sensor capabilities, and high-resolution mass scanning. Sensoring includes many contact and non-contact methods including variable pressure touch-trigger and continuous contact probes, vision with advanced edge detection and articulated lighting, laser, white-light fringe pattern, ultrasonic, hall-effect, and variable reluctance transducer. We can measure with resolutions below .000001 of an inch, lengths over 30 feet long, parts weighing over 1 ton, data collection at rates in the thousands of points per second, on materials ranging from paper to manmade sapphire.

Below are just some of the manufacturing processes and materials we work with:
| Investment Casting | Machining Injection Molding |
| Honeycomb | Vacuum Formed |
| Sheet Metal Fabrication | Laser Cutting |
| Grinding | Blow Molding |
| Die Casting | Stamping Welding |
| Sand Casting | Roto Molding |
| Brazing | Forming |
| Sintered Metal Forging | Wood & Paper Vapor Deposition |
| Broaching | Extrusion |
| EDM | Glass |
| Hobbing | Shaping |
| Tube bending | Chem Milling |
| Photo-etching | Ceramics |
| Springs | Carbon Fiber |
| Coining | Knurling |
| Rapid Prototyping | Spinning |

Some of our customers’ many fascinating applications and products:
| Race Cars | Drug Delivery Systems | Jet Engines |
| Hydraulics | Surgical Equipment | Turbochargers |
| Power Systems | Prosthetics | Computers |
| Orthodontics | Weapon Systems | Sports Equipment |
| Jet Fighters | Analytical Instruments | UAVs |
| Vehicle Armor | Firearms | Tanks |
| Commercial Aircraft | Smoke Alarms | Nuclear Reactors |
| Helicopters | Musical Instruments | Smart Bombs |
| Submarines | Computer Animation | Cell Phones |
| Exercise Equipment | Motorcycles | Golf Clubs |
| Laser Printers | Satellites | Space Exploration |
| Internet | Forensics | Genomics |
| Pacemakers | Detectors | Bio Threat |
| Aviation Safety | Fuel Cells | |

| Aerospace | Defense | Medical |
| Automotive | Pharmaceutical | Nuclear Energy |
| Commercial Agriculture | Biotechnology | Telecommunications |
| Environmental Shipbuilding | Food Processing | Sporting Goods |
| Furniture Scientific | Entertainment | Education |
| Dental Office | Household Products | Equipment |
| Printing | Jewelry | Apparel Electronics |
| Railroads | Semiconductors | Personal Care |
| Motor Sports | Power Generation | Arts & Entertainment |
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