2024 – Page 6 – Cal Lab Magazine

New Book Demystifies Metrology Decision Rules

May 6, 2024 Office

YORK, PA, UNITED STATES, April 21, 2024 /– A trio of metrology industry veterans with over 100 years of experience have co-authored a guidebook titled “Decision Rule Guidance, 1st Edition 2024,” available for download. The […]

Rohde & Schwarz presents new R&S NGC100 power supply series with market-leading functions | Rohde & Schwarz

April 17, 2024 Office

Munich 04-Apr-2024 DC power supplies are essential throughout the electronics industry to provide the basic requirement of accurate and stable DC power from an AC source that may be subject to fluctuations and surges. The […]

Fluke Calibration 9500C High-Performance Oscilloscope Calibrator Provides Key to Exceptional Signal Performance

April 9, 2024 Office

EVERETT, Wash., April 2, 2024 — Calibration technicians need efficient, reliable oscilloscopes to reduce costly errors, delays, and safety issues. Given the complexity of these scopes – with thousands of test points – operators need […]

Researchers develop a new type of frequency comb that promises to further boost the accuracy of time keeping | NIST

April 2, 2024 Office

March 14, 2024 Chip-based devices known as frequency combs, which measure the frequency of light waves with unparalleled precision, have revolutionized time keeping, the detection of planets outside of our solar system and high-speed optical […]

Sidestepping the Potholes in DC Voltage Traceability

February 1, 2024 Office

by David F. Martson The development and use of intrinsic standards, e.g., Josephson Voltage Standard or JVS, has brought the primary level of uncertainty achievable for DC voltage down to a few nV/V (ppb), while […]

Some Perspective on Risk and Decision Rules in Calibration

February 1, 2024 Office

by James G. Salsbury When an accredited laboratory makes a statement of conformity to a specification, ISO/IEC 17025 requires the use of a decision rule that takes into account the level of risk associated with […]

Pushing the Observer Effect

February 1, 2024 Office

by Dan Wiswell We’ve all heard people speak of accuracies and tolerances in more colorful language than what would be expected in a metrology lab. “Plus-or-minus a hand grenade” or, “Close enough for government work” […]

Moving Away from Waterfall Metrology

February 1, 2024 Michael Schwartz

Over the years, I have had one foot in the metrology/test and measurement world and the other foot in software and software architecture. With two different perspectives, I tend to look at things from multiple […]