2024 – Page 2 – Cal Lab Magazine

Additel’s new Value Pressure Gauge Provides Vacuum to 15,000 psi (1000 bar)

October 3, 2024 Office

Brea, Calif., October 3rd, 2023 – Additel Corporation introduces a new and unique line of pressure gauges specifically designed to replace traditional analog dial gauges in an affordable digital format. These cutting-edge pressure gauges provide […]

Optical Radiation Calibration

September 30, 2024 Office

by Bob Angelo Rather than a step by step how to guide, the goal of this article is to provide a broad overview of the terms, instrumentation, applicable SI units, methods and just a few […]

What a Long-Term Instrument Warranty Can Mean to a Calibration Operation

September 30, 2024 Office

by Jesse Morse Most all test and measurement equipment (TME) come with some amount of warranty: 90 days, one year, etc. From the manufacturer’s perspective, it is simply to protect the buyer from having to […]

A Quality Review: The Top 10 Best Papers for Life Science Calibration and Testing Laboratories

September 30, 2024 Office

by Walter Nowocin In the past fifteen years, there have been many exceptional technical papers presented at the annual NCSL International Workshop and Symposium and the Measurement Science Conference. At Medtronic, we benefited from many […]

You never know, you know… ?

September 30, 2024 Office

by Dan Wiswell As a collector of antique test equipment, I have visited many antique shops over the years with the hope of stumbling upon something good. A few decades ago, there were plenty of […]

Don’t Run Your Calibration Lab Like Blockbuster

September 30, 2024 Michael Schwartz

One of the quotes I love is by Henry Ford: “If I asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Another quote is from Neil deGrasse Tyson: “In the 1900s, horses […]

News

CHIPS for America Releases METIS Data Exchange Ecosystem for Supporting Metrology Innovation | NIST Updates

September 26, 2024 Office

September 26, 2024 — Today, CHIPS for America released a beta version of the Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors (METIS). A major milestone for the CHIPS Metrology Program, METIS will give stakeholders access to […]

The Basics of Measurement, Traceability and ISO/IEC 17025

September 20, 2024 Office

by Martin de Groot & Peter van de Leemput (Jul-Sep 2009) Abstract: This paper deals with accreditation of calibration laboratories, considering that for many calibration technicians the step to accreditation is a significant border to […]