2016 – Page 5 – Cal Lab Magazine

The Effects of Loading Pad Hardness on the Calibration Results of Force Transducers

May 16, 2016 Office

by Ebtisam H. Hassan, R. Hegazy, Gouda M. Mahmoud Common practice in the use of force proving instruments, such as load cells, has been to use loading pads to maintain the safety for the load […]

10 Things to Know About Achieving ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation

May 16, 2016 Office

by Rob Miller For organizations searching for options to differentiate their services, often times the most suitable way of achieving this is through accreditation to published standards such as ISO/IEC 17025. This outside evaluation based […]

NPL News – Creator of the moving coil watt balance passes away

May 6, 2016 Office

Dr Kibble worked at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) from 1967 to 1998 as an experimental physicist. He was instrumental in reshaping the International System of Units (SI), and is best known for his conception […]

NIST’s Million-Pound Weight Stack Restoration is Complete

April 25, 2016 Office

It’s official: NIST’s 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine – the largest in the world – is back in one piece after a colossal 16-month effort to overhaul the system for the […]

Head to Head: Photonic Pressure Sensors vs. Mercury-Based Standard

April 21, 2016 Office

When a team of researchers at NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) first tested a new kind of pressure sensor two years ago, initial results showed it was faster and had higher resolution than the traditional, […]

Transcat Expands Presence in Southern California with Acquisition of Excalibur Engineering, Inc.

April 4, 2016 Office

ROCHESTER, NY, April 1, 2016 – Transcat, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRNS) (“Transcat” or the “Company”), a leading provider of accredited calibration and compliance services and value-added distributor of professional grade handheld test, measurement and control instrumentation, […]

Probability Distributions and Divisors for Estimating Measurement Uncertainty

February 19, 2016 Office

by Richard Hogan Probability distributions are a part of measurement uncertainty analysis that people continually struggle with. Today, my goal is to help you learn more about probability distributions without having to grab a statistics […]

PXI Interoperability – How to Achieve Multi-Vendor Interoperability in PXI Systems

February 19, 2016 Office

by Dave Brannon Test system developers generally require a large variety of test instruments to meet system needs. When the instruments are sourced from different suppliers, the system developer must have confidence that they will […]