If you are considering outsourcing your measurements, then it is likely that one of the items bulleted below might be one of your reasons:
- We don’t have any laboratory facilities but we just need supportive tests to be performed using our product for marketing purposes.
- We need a peak shaving institute who can handle seasonal quality control measurements.
- There is a mismatch between these routine based measurements and our highly skilled staff.
- Company X will transfer their equipment to a laboratory to let them do the measurements for them.
- Starting of next month we foresee temporary increased laboratory activities. Can we solve this by a contractor?
- We need additional skilled staff in our laboratory to be able to deliver a project’s milestone in time.
- We do have a lot of different measuring instruments around but we can hardly keep those in proper shape. Can you please find a laboratory who can do this job for us, admin included?
- Although these measurements are quite important for us, they hardly add any value to our business. Therefore we need a laboratory, which can do these measurements for us.
- We have a rather unique piece of equipment available in-house, which we want to commercialize because of its underrecovery. However we want to do this in a controlled and confident way. If we can find an independent reliable intermediary who can cope with this, then our advantages are obvious: