Medical Equipment Calibration Market Size & Share Analysis - Growth Trends & Forecasts (2025 - 2030)

The Medical Equipment Calibration Market Report Segments the Industry Into by Equipment Type (Vital Sign Monitors, Ventilators, Fetal Monitors, and More), Type of Service (In-House Calibration Services, and More ), End User (Clinical Laboratories, Hospitals, and More), and Geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, South America). The Market Forecasts are Provided in Terms of Value (USD).

Medical Equipment Calibration Market Size and Share

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Medical Equipment Calibration Market Analysis by Mordor Intelligence

The Medical Equipment Calibration Market size is estimated at USD 1.77 billion in 2025, and is expected to reach USD 3.04 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 11.42% during the forecast period (2025-2030).

Demand tracks three converging forces: stricter global quality mandates, rapid technology replacement cycles, and the steady spread of advanced healthcare infrastructure. New FDA Quality Management System Regulation amendments taking effect in 2026 will harmonize United States rules with ISO 13485:2016 and reinforce the need for traceable calibration records. Capital spending on AI-enabled imaging, ventilators, and networked monitors expands the medical equipment calibration market because every new device shipped carries a downstream calibration requirement. Hospitals also link reimbursement to device accuracy metrics under value-based care, further embedding calibration into operating budgets.

Key Report Takeaways

  • By equipment type, imaging equipment held 33.45% of the medical equipment calibration market share in 2024; vital-sign monitors are advancing at a 14.01% CAGR to 2030.
  • By type of service, OEMs controlled 51.96% of the market in 2024 while third-party firms post the fastest 14.24% CAGR through 2030.
  • By end user, hospitals accounted for a 44.64% share of the medical equipment calibration market size in 2024, while home-care and point-of-care settings expand at 16.02% CAGR to 2030.
  • By region, North America led with 39.83% revenue in 2024; Asia-Pacific is set to grow at 12.52% CAGR through 2030.

Segment Analysis

By Equipment Type: Imaging Systems Hold Ground While Monitors Race Ahead

Imaging platforms accounted for 33.45% of the medical equipment calibration market in 2024, reflecting extensive calibration touchpoints from gantry alignment to dose calibration. Each software revision and hardware retrofit drives incremental service revenue and anchors long-term contracts. Algorithmic imaging methods add video-rate adjustments that go beyond classical geometric checks, enlarging scope. Vital-sign monitors, by contrast, post a 14.01% CAGR because home-care adoption multiplies unit volume. Every monitor shipped into a living room extends the medical equipment calibration market to non-institutional settings and triggers portable field-calibration kits. Gradient-free helium MRI, AI-enabled ultrasound, and connected infusion pumps all require bespoke procedures, locking in specialist demand.

Rapid uptake of networked devices means calibration now routinely covers sensors, embedded firmware, and cloud APIs. Infusion pumps rely on gravimetric calibration for flow accuracy, and any firmware patch resets the clock on compliance. Ventilator calibration gained visibility during the pandemic and remains a critical safety hedge in intensive-care units. Surgical tools and laboratory analyzers sustain steady growth, rounding out revenue diversity within the medical equipment calibration market.

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By Type of Service: OEM Leads, While Third-Party Niches Expand

OEMs controlled 51.96% of the medical equipment calibration market share in 2024, drawing strength from embedded diagnostics and proprietary software unlocks. Many OEM plans bundle firmware updates, cybersecurity patches, and minor repairs, making them one-stop solutions for hospitals focused on risk avoidance. Third-party providers grow 14.24% per year by pitching lower cost and multi-vendor coverage to independent clinics. They also develop niche expertise laser power calibration or electromedical safety that OEM competitors sometimes outsource.

In-house laboratories thrive inside very large hospital networks where equipment fleets justify dedicated benches. Hybrid arrangements emerge in which routine work stays onsite while complex modalities revert to OEMs or specialty firms, bringing flexibility and spreading risk. Digital portals run compliance documentation and service reminders across all three models, integrating them into a single audit trail and thus widening total spend in the medical equipment calibration market.

By End User: Hospital Core Faces Distributed-Care Momentum

Hospitals remain central with 44.64% revenue in 2024 because high-acuity devices such as cath-lab fluoroscopy and proton therapy machines stay inside bricks-and-mortar campuses. Value-partnership contracts guarantee uptime across hundreds of devices and generate predictable service windows. Laboratories add volume in the form of chemistry analyzers and hematology counters requiring frequent alignment to maintain test accuracy.

Home-care, ambulatory, and OEM labs rise 16.02% per year as payers push care closer to the patient. Portable dialysis, glucose meters, and fetal monitors move into residences or outpatient clinics, triggering new calibration workflows that emphasize lightweight fixtures and cloud-logged certificates. Point-of-care analyzers adopted by ambulance teams introduce calibration tasks in transit environments, broadening the medical equipment calibration industry landscape and demanding ruggedized calibration kits.

Market Share by End User
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Geography Analysis

North America generated 39.83% of global revenue in 2024, supported by early alignment with ISO 13485 and routine FDA surveillance audits. Procurement teams embed service clauses that mandate ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, cementing a high-entry barrier and rewarding scale operators. Canada’s regulatory modernization and Mexico’s export-oriented device production add regional tailwinds. The medical equipment calibration market size for North America is projected to advance in lockstep with imaging overhauls, tele-ICU rollouts, and cybersecurity mandates.

Asia-Pacific grows at a brisk 12.52% CAGR, propelled by expanding manufacturer hubs in China, India, and South Korea and by fresh hospital construction across Southeast Asia. Government incentives to localize high-end production spur suppliers to build domestic calibration capability, stimulating cross-border joint ventures. Japan’s aging population drives heavy imaging utilization, while the ASEAN Medical Device Directive trims paperwork across 10 countries and speeds vendor onboarding. These factors converge to embed the medical equipment calibration market across the region.

Europe commands a large installed base and a detailed regulatory playbook. MDR and IVDR updates extend calibration from radiology into in vitro diagnostics, inflating task lists and lengthening service contracts. Germany’s export pipeline, France’s hospital investments, and the United Kingdom’s post-Brexit alignment efforts collectively keep demand high. Sustainability preferences open space for newer calibration methods—for instance, helium-free MRI—and render traditional cooling and cryogen checks obsolete. Elsewhere, the Middle East, Africa, and South America register quicker relative growth as they retrofit outdated fleets and build new tertiary centers, though limited technician pools and currency risk temper uptake.

Growth Rate by Region
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Competitive Landscape

The medical equipment calibration market hosts a mix of diversified industrial groups, OEM service arms, and specialist metrology firms. Trescal, funded by private equity, completed USD 13.1 million in acquisitions across four continents in 2024 to knit a global network able to match multinational device makers’ footprints. OEMs such as GE HealthCare, Siemens Healthineers, and Philips bundle calibration into enterprise-wide imaging refreshes, locking customers for seven-to-twelve-year cycles. Technology firms including IBM and Beamex deploy AI to predict drift, trim turnaround times, and evidence ROI.

Fragmentation persists in emerging economies where dozens of local firms manage electrical safety tests and basic flow meters. Consolidators eye these targets to gain geographic breadth and workforce depth. Cybersecurity credentials now influence award decisions, elevating providers that can validate software hashes and encrypt calibration files. 

Medical Equipment Calibration Industry Leaders

  1. JM Test Systems Inc.

  2. Tektronix, Inc.

  3. Godrej.com

  4. ISS Solutions, Inc (Biomed Technologies Inc.)

  5. Fortive (Fluke)

  6. *Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
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Recent Industry Developments

  • May 2025: Philips partnered with Evidia to install Ambition BlueSeal MRI and CT 5300 Premium systems at Aleris Elisabeth Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden, introducing sustainability-driven equipment that requires updated calibration routines.
  • March 2025: Siemens Healthineers and Tower Health launched a 10-year value partnership to standardize imaging equipment and embed lifecycle calibration across the network.
  • March 2025: GE HealthCare and NVIDIA began co-developing autonomous x-ray and ultrasound devices, raising new calibration vectors for AI models.
  • February 2025: Philips and Mass General Brigham unveiled a live data framework that streams ventilator and monitor data for real-time analytics, expanding calibration to data-pipeline integrity.

Table of Contents for Medical Equipment Calibration Industry Report

1. Introduction

  • 1.1 Study Assumptions & Market Definition
  • 1.2 Scope of the Study

2. Research Methodology

3. Executive Summary

4. Market Landscape

  • 4.1 Market Overview
  • 4.2 Market Drivers
    • 4.2.1 Stringent Global Regulations
    • 4.2.2 Growing Installed Base of High-Value Imaging & Life-Support Systems
    • 4.2.3 Preventive-Maintenance Contracts to Cut Device Downtime
    • 4.2.4 IoT-Linked Self-Diagnostic Sensors Enabling Micro-Calibration
    • 4.2.5 Value-Based Procurement Tying Reimbursement to Accuracy KPIs
    • 4.2.6 Home/POC Devices Needing Field-Calibration Kits
  • 4.3 Market Restraints
    • 4.3.1 High Cost & Scheduling Complexity in Emerging Markets
    • 4.3.2 Scarcity of ISO/IEC 17025-Accredited Technicians
    • 4.3.3 Cyber-Security Rules Limiting Remote Calibration Access
    • 4.3.4 AI Autocalibration Data-Integrity Concerns
  • 4.4 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
    • 4.4.1 Threat of New Entrants
    • 4.4.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers
    • 4.4.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
    • 4.4.4 Threat of Substitutes
    • 4.4.5 Competitive Rivalry

5. Market Size & Growth Forecasts (Value in USD)

  • 5.1 By Equipment Type
    • 5.1.1 Vital Sign Monitors
    • 5.1.2 Ventilators
    • 5.1.3 Fetal Monitors
    • 5.1.4 Cardiovascular Monitors
    • 5.1.5 Imaging Equipment
    • 5.1.6 Infusion Pumps
    • 5.1.7 Other Equipment
  • 5.2 By Type of Service
    • 5.2.1 In-house Calibration Services
    • 5.2.2 Third-party Calibration Services
    • 5.2.3 OEM Calibration Services
  • 5.3 By End User
    • 5.3.1 Clinical Laboratories
    • 5.3.2 Hospitals
    • 5.3.3 Others (Home-care, Ambulatory, OEM Labs)
  • 5.4 By Geography
    • 5.4.1 North America
    • 5.4.1.1 United States
    • 5.4.1.2 Canada
    • 5.4.1.3 Mexico
    • 5.4.2 Europe
    • 5.4.2.1 Germany
    • 5.4.2.2 United Kingdom
    • 5.4.2.3 France
    • 5.4.2.4 Italy
    • 5.4.2.5 Spain
    • 5.4.2.6 Rest of Europe
    • 5.4.3 Asia-Pacific
    • 5.4.3.1 China
    • 5.4.3.2 Japan
    • 5.4.3.3 India
    • 5.4.3.4 Australia
    • 5.4.3.5 South Korea
    • 5.4.3.6 Rest of Asia-Pacific
    • 5.4.4 Middle East & Africa
    • 5.4.4.1 GCC
    • 5.4.4.2 South Africa
    • 5.4.4.3 Rest of Middle East & Africa
    • 5.4.5 South America
    • 5.4.5.1 Brazil
    • 5.4.5.2 Argentina
    • 5.4.5.3 Rest of South America

6. Competitive Landscape

  • 6.1 Market Concentration
  • 6.2 Market Share Analysis
  • 6.3 Company Profiles (includes Global level Overview, Market level overview, Core Segments, Financials as available, Strategic Information, Market Rank/Share for key companies, Products & Services, and Recent Developments)
    • 6.3.1 Fortive
    • 6.3.2 Trescal
    • 6.3.3 GE Healthcare
    • 6.3.4 Siemens Healthineers
    • 6.3.5 Philips Healthcare
    • 6.3.6 Transcat
    • 6.3.7 Tektronix
    • 6.3.8 JM Test Systems
    • 6.3.9 TAG Medical
    • 6.3.10 BC Group International
    • 6.3.11 Beamex
    • 6.3.12 Keysight Technologies
    • 6.3.13 JPen Medical
    • 6.3.14 NS Medical Systems
    • 6.3.15 Medserve Ltd
    • 6.3.16 Godrej Biomed
    • 6.3.17 Biomed Technologies (ISS Solutions)
    • 6.3.18 TBS Group
    • 6.3.19 Aramark Services
    • 6.3.20 Pentax Medical Services
    • 6.3.21 Rigel Medical

7. Market Opportunities & Future Outlook

  • 7.1 White-space & Unmet-Need Assessment
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Global Medical Equipment Calibration Market Report Scope

As per the scope of the report, medical equipment calibration is the process that ensures the output of the medical devices is as per the industry standards. Calibration can be defined as a comparison between the standard measurement and measurement using a medical instrument. The medical equipment calibration market is segmented by equipment type (vital sign monitors, ventilators, fetal monitors, cardiovascular monitors, imaging equipment, infusion pumps, and other equipment), type of service (in-house calibration services, third party calibration services, and OEM (original equipment manufacturer) calibration services), end user (clinical laboratories, hospitals, and others) and geography (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle-East & Africa, and South America). The market report also covers the estimated market sizes and trends for 17 countries across major regions globally. The report offers the value (in USD million) for the above segments.

By Equipment Type Vital Sign Monitors
Ventilators
Fetal Monitors
Cardiovascular Monitors
Imaging Equipment
Infusion Pumps
Other Equipment
By Type of Service In-house Calibration Services
Third-party Calibration Services
OEM Calibration Services
By End User Clinical Laboratories
Hospitals
Others (Home-care, Ambulatory, OEM Labs)
By Geography North America United States
Canada
Mexico
Europe Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Rest of Europe
Asia-Pacific China
Japan
India
Australia
South Korea
Rest of Asia-Pacific
Middle East & Africa GCC
South Africa
Rest of Middle East & Africa
South America Brazil
Argentina
Rest of South America
By Equipment Type
Vital Sign Monitors
Ventilators
Fetal Monitors
Cardiovascular Monitors
Imaging Equipment
Infusion Pumps
Other Equipment
By Type of Service
In-house Calibration Services
Third-party Calibration Services
OEM Calibration Services
By End User
Clinical Laboratories
Hospitals
Others (Home-care, Ambulatory, OEM Labs)
By Geography
North America United States
Canada
Mexico
Europe Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Rest of Europe
Asia-Pacific China
Japan
India
Australia
South Korea
Rest of Asia-Pacific
Middle East & Africa GCC
South Africa
Rest of Middle East & Africa
South America Brazil
Argentina
Rest of South America
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Key Questions Answered in the Report

What is the projected size of the medical equipment calibration market in 2030?

The medical equipment calibration market size is forecast to reach USD 3.04 billion by 2030 under an 11.42% CAGR.

Which equipment category currently commands the largest share?

Imaging systems such as CT, MRI, and x-ray units held 33.45% of global revenue in 2024.

Why are third-party calibration providers growing faster than OEM service arms?

Hospitals and clinics adopt multi-vendor cost-optimization strategies, pushing third-party firms to a 14.24% CAGR through 2030.

How do new FDA regulations affect calibration demand?

The FDA QMSR aligns U.S. rules with ISO 13485 and mandates deeper traceability, expanding documentation and service requirements.

Which region will see the fastest calibration service growth?

Asia-Pacific is projected to record a 12.52% CAGR thanks to rapid hospital construction and local device manufacturing expansion.

What is the main bottleneck slowing service capacity worldwide?

A shortage of ISO/IEC 17025-accredited technicians vacancy rates near 20% in some regions limits how quickly providers can scale.

Page last updated on: July 8, 2025

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