2019 – Cal Lab Magazine

Photon drive for quantum flux transfer | PTB News

December 30, 2019 Office

PTB-News 3.2019 24.09.2019 At PTB, a pulse-driven Josephson standard for the generation of AC voltages has been realized where the voltage pulses are synthesized by means of optical components. This has advantages compared to the […]

Vitrek Launches Best-In-Class Programmable DC Load Product

December 19, 2019 Office

The Vitrek DL Series offers industry-leading performance in 125W-500W applications; supports best-in-class transient loading capability (from 0.1µW resolution to 14.5kW pulses); features high-speed pulse loading up to 100 kHz; boasts up to ten times better […]

JILA Team Demonstrates Model System for Distribution of More Accurate Time Signals | NIST

October 30, 2019 Office

October 21, 2019, NIST News – JILA physicists and collaborators have demonstrated the first next-generation “time scale” — a system that incorporates data from multiple atomic clocks to produce a single highly accurate timekeeping signal […]

Pass or Fail: With Which Probability?

October 23, 2019 Office

by Manuel Rodríguez In this paper, the Probability of Pass (PoP) and the Probability of Fail (PoF) are derived following a metrological approach, in which concepts such as repeatability, number of effective degrees of freedom, […]

Aircraft and Truck Scale Calibration

October 23, 2019 Office

by Henry Zumbrun Aircraft and truck scales come in all different shapes and sizes and typically serve one purpose, to approximate the weight of an aircraft or truck. Why might that be important? For aircraft, […]

Comments on Unsustainable Software

October 23, 2019 Michael Schwartz

I recently visited one of my largest customers. They have a huge internal self-maintainer calibration program and years ago they decided they wanted to get all their calibration system on a single platform. They went […]

Shaw Moisture Meters Opens New USA Location

October 22, 2019 Office

Shaw Moisture Meters announces the establishment of Shaw Moisture Meters (USA) in Hudson, Massachusetts, offering for the first time, direct sales, repair and calibration services to its customers in North America. Shaw Moisture Meters (USA) […]

New Book on the 3458A Multimeter

October 17, 2019 Office

Sampling with 3458A by Rado Lapuh ISBN 978-961-94476-0-4 Author Rado Lapuh has many years of experience in the field of electrical metrology. Sampling with 3458A summarizes almost a decade of his work, together with many […]