February 2011 – Cal Lab Magazine

New Fluke 5522A Multi-Product Calibrator

February 28, 2011 Admin

EVERETT, Wash. – Fluke Calibration, a global leader in calibration instrumentation and software, has introduced the 5522A Multi-Product Calibrator, designed to improve the capabilities of calibration laboratories industry wide. The 5522A is the next generation […]

Mercury Thermometers Reaching Absolute Zero

February 26, 2011 Admin

Mercury Thermometers Face Final Phase Out by Peter Gwynne l ISNS (ISNS) — The mercury thermometer, long a fixture in household medicine cabinets and industrial settings, is going the way of the horse and buggy. […]

Does Your Ruler Measure Up?

February 21, 2011 Admin

Complimentary small plastic rulers, being imprecise, innacurate, flimsy and defaced with advertising, draw only a measured amount of respect from metrologists. In 1994, two metrologists took measures to see just how much respect the rulers […]

Semilab buys solar metrology firm

February 17, 2011 Admin

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Semilab Inc. has acquired the assets of Tordivel Solar AS for an undisclosed amount of cash. As part of the deal, the majority of Tordivel Solar employees have now been engaged […]

Smart Grid Panel Agrees on Data-Exchange Standards for Electricity Usage

February 17, 2011 Admin

NIST News February 11, 2011 Washington, DC – The governing board of the public-private Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has voted in favor of a new standard important for two-way data communications between utilities and […]

Obama Administration’s Budget Request for NIST Includes Critical Science and Technology Investments to Advance U.S. Innovation and Boost Economic Recovery

February 14, 2011 Admin

February 13, 2011, Washington, D.C. – Announced today, President Barack Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget submitted to Congress for the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes a funding level […]

Danaher to Acquire Beckman Coulter, Inc. for $83.50 per share or $6.8 Billion

February 7, 2011 Admin

Washington, D.C., February 7, 2011 – Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) pursuant to which Danaher will acquire Beckman Coulter by […]

Multichoice for Fluke MET/CAL®

February 4, 2011 Admin

Currently MET/CAL® procedures can only be programmed to ask the operator a Yes or No question. MultiChoice is a MET/CAL® add-on application that allows the programmer to ask the operator a question with a list […]