Teach what right looks like.
Diagnostics are hard to teach on equipment a student cannot see inside, and a static diagram never shows the system respond. measureQuick turns a training rig into a live window: the class watches pressures and temperatures move together as the charge or the airflow changes, and learns the same workflow that documents a job and issues a certificate in the field. The process becomes the teacher, so a first-year student can run it like a veteran from the first lab.
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Built by Jim BergmannThe founder and the field's most-cited diagnostics educator.
- NIST-tested science
Lab-grade accuracy at 10x lower cost and 100x simpler deployment.
- Works with your tools
80+ tools across 17+ brands you already own.
The problem
The gap between the classroom and the truck is where good techs are lost.
- Teaching the refrigerant cycle on equipment nobody can see inside
- Theory that never connects to what the gauges actually read
- Graduates who can take a reading but cannot interpret the system
- A different process learned from every instructor a student meets
- No common tool bridging the lab bench and the field
What you get
See the whole system live
System View shows the full refrigerant cycle in real time, so the class watches the system respond instead of working from a static diagram. A student changes the charge on a live rig and watches the evaporator fill, the subcooling move, and the superheat answer. They learn the relationships instead of memorizing a formula.
The process is the teacher
Dirk Nauman, a trainer and service manager at the Habegger distributor, ran a head-to-head test: an entry-level tech ran the measureQuick workflow with probes, then a seasoned tech did a pre-season check behind him the old way. In Dirk's words, "The entry level technician found more things wrong with the system than the season technician." A guided workflow refuses to let a step get skipped, so the standard stops depending on which veteran a student happened to learn from.
Free measureQuick for your classroom
The core real-time diagnostic is free for everyone, and instructors at accredited schools get a free account so they can use System View as a teaching tool. A single training rig plus a probe kit puts the whole system on screen. Email Valerie at val@measurequick.com from your school address to set it up.
Train differently, not hire differently
The technician shortage is a training problem, not a hiring problem. There is no veteran waiting to be hired, so the lever is the ramp. Structured onboarding correlates with 82% higher retention and 70% higher productivity from new hires (Brandon Hall Group). measureQuick gives a program one standard workflow to build that ramp on: self-paced LMS in the first 30 days, a hands-on workshop after 60 to 90 days of field use, and a Master Class for the techs who will train everyone else.
Multiply your best instructors
When your lead instructors and senior techs are maxed out, the way to scale a standard is to multiply them. The Certified mQ Trainer and Champion course is a teach-back program that lets a school or a company run its own measureQuick workshops in-house. Simpson Salute runs a class a month in its own learning lab. As Ben Chouinard, a trainer there, puts it: "I'm passionate about the software... number two, I'm passionate about helping people become better techs."
Connect to the credentials the field recognizes
NCI teaches performance testing and airflow, and its ComfortMaxx and AirMaxx workflows run on measureQuick. ACCA writes the industry standard, and the same measurements your students take issue an ACCA Quality Installation certificate. As one contractor frames it, measureQuick is "the conduit to the VEO... the platform that is used to issue the certificate from ACCA, which is the standard writer in our industry."
From lab bench to credential
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Start free in the lab
The core diagnostic is free and instructors get a free account. Connect a probe kit to one training rig and the whole system is on screen.
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Watch the system respond
Students change a charge or drop the airflow on a live rig and see System View answer, building a mental model a diagram cannot give.
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Run the workflow the field runs
The guided process students learn in the lab is the same one that documents a job in the field, so graduates show up able to read and interpret a system.
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Credential the process
The same measurements feed an ACCA Quality Installation certificate, so a student leaves with a process that produces proof, not a bare reading.
Scale a training program with measureQuick
Educator Tanya Gaitz on how measureQuick scales hands-on HVAC training from the classroom to the field, the same platform students will use on their first service call.
Why programs standardize on it
authorized measureQuick training facilities across eight states, running a train-the-trainer model so the standard scales by region.
higher new-hire retention from structured onboarding, with 70% higher productivity (Brandon Hall Group). The ramp is curriculum, not recruiting.
of contractors in the DOE and Southface field study reported fewer callbacks after standardizing on measureQuick (NREL/TP-5500-88387).
The DOE/Southface callback figure is contractor self-reported from the NREL/TP-5500-88387 field study. Brandon Hall figures are general onboarding research.
“There are some great applications on the market, like measureQuick, that simplify testing and guide you through the steps.”
Questions, answered
What does a classroom need to get started?
The core real-time diagnostic is free, so students can start measuring at no cost, and instructors at accredited schools get a free account to use System View as a teaching tool. Email Valerie at val@measurequick.com from your school address to set it up. A single training rig and a probe kit put the whole system on screen.
What equipment does it run on?
measureQuick runs on a phone or tablet and connects to the same 80+ tools across 17+ brands the field uses, so students learn on the instruments employers already own.
How does this prepare students for the field?
Students learn measurement-based diagnostics on the platform the trade already runs. Because the guided workflow carries the process, even a first-year student finds what a habit-driven veteran can miss, and graduates show up able to read and interpret a system instead of starting over on the job.
Does it connect to industry training and certification?
Yes. NCI teaches performance testing and airflow, and its ComfortMaxx and AirMaxx workflows run on measureQuick. ACCA writes the standard, and the ACCA Quality Installation path issues recognized third-party certificates from the same measurements. Your program lines up with the credentials employers look for.
Is the platform accurate enough to teach on?
Yes. measureQuick's measurement accuracy was validated at the NIST HVAC lab against reference instruments, so what students measure in the classroom holds up in the field.
Bring measureQuick to your classroom.
Start free, then email Valerie at val@measurequick.com from your school address for a full instructor account.