November 2021 – Cal Lab Magazine

PT100 Calculator | Fluke Calibration

November 24, 2021 Office

Use this PT100 Calculator to calculate temperature and resistance values from the standard PT100 curves. The online calculator will produce a temperature value from an entered resistance or calculate resistance and thermometer sensitivity values from […]

Parliament backs metrology partnership within Horizon Europe | News | European Parliament

November 24, 2021 Office

The partnership on metrology – the science of measurement – also aims to support sales of new innovative products and services through the use and adoption of new metrology capabilities in emerging technologies and to […]

Uncertainty Calculator | SandiaPSL.github.io

November 17, 2021 Office

The PSL Uncertainty Calculator is developed by the Primary Standards Lab at Sandia National Laboratories to calculate the combined uncertainty of a system of multiple input parameters. In general, a measurement value is calculated from […]

Temperature Calibrations, Part 4

November 12, 2021 Office

by Ryan Egbert & Joseph Rindone The following article is the last of a four-part Metrology 101 series focusing on temperature. The written content provided here is also intended to be combined with demonstration videos […]

A Case Study on Interlaboratory Consensus Building

November 12, 2021 Office

by Hening Huang This technical note reports a case study that addresses a challenge of interlaboratory consensus building called for by Possolo (2020). The consensus value is estimated as a weighted-average (WA) and the associated […]

TAR Versus TUR: Why TAR Should RIP ASAP

November 12, 2021 Office

by Henry Zumbrun There is a bit of a disconnect regarding risk mitigation practices in the metrology and calibration provider community. Most likely, this comes from a misunderstanding of terminology or legacy requirements that have […]

The Hidden Costs of Software Development

November 12, 2021 Michael Schwartz

There is a hidden cost in developing and supporting automated calibration procedures, that is the cost of supporting and updating the software after the initial development cost. The industry sets an average metric of 80%. […]

Diode lasers for optical metrology | PTB.de

November 4, 2021 Office

PTBnews 03.2021 — In collaboration with an industrial partner, PTB has developed and assessed a very compact wavelength standard. This standard is based on a diode laser whose frequency is stabilized to transitions of the […]