2014 – Page 3 – Cal Lab Magazine

Structure is EVERYTHING!

May 17, 2014 Michael Schwartz

So what is good structure in software? What makes one language, design or architecture better than another? These are all very difficult questions to answer. So far, I have not found a litmus test; but […]

Trescal Pursues Its Acquisition Strategy In N.A.

April 10, 2014 Office

Paris, April 10th 2014 – Trescal, the international specialist in calibration services, announces today that it has acquired Instrument Calibration Services and Test Equipment Repair Corporation, two companies that provide calibration and repair services for […]

Take F2: NIST’s Latest, Most Accurate Time Standard Debuts

April 9, 2014 Office

April 3, 2014, BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time […]

NIST Gives Astronomers a Better Ruler in the Search for Extrasolar Planets

March 26, 2014 Office

NIST Tech Beat March 26, 2014 – Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have rejuvenated a technique for finding planets near distant stars.* New measurements of light from special lamps could […]

Tolerances for Non-Linear Analog Resistance Scales

February 18, 2014 Office

By Tom Morgan A method is derived for calculating the resistance tolerances for non-linear resistance scales, whose accuracy tolerances are given in degrees of arc instead of percent of reading or range. Read the Full […]

Progress in the Theory of the Laminar Tube Thermal Flow Sensor

February 18, 2014 Office

By Thomas O. Maginnis, Ph.D. Thermal mass flow sensing is well established commercially for measurement and control of low gas flows in the semiconductor industry and elsewhere. Yet the basic theory of this critical flow […]

Leveraging LEAN in the Laboratory

February 18, 2014 Office

By Dean S. Williams What do you do when faced with a doubling of demand with virtually no increase in resources? Go LEAN. That was the approach Duke Energy’s Standards Lab took when it faced […]

Thoughts on Metrology Software Life Cycles

February 17, 2014 Michael Schwartz

I was having a long conversation the other day with a fellow software engineer. One of the topics we talked about for hours was software life cycles and how metrology software is not like most […]