2026 – Cal Lab Magazine

Setting Calibration Intervals from Your As-Found Data

September 10, 2026 Office

By Timothy Malone, Axiospec Most calibration programs pick an interval once and never revisit it. An instrument arrives with a twelve-month recommendation, or the lab puts everything on an annual cycle. Either way, that number […]

Practical Use of Dry Block Calibrators

September 3, 2026 Office

by David Southworth A dry block can give a temperature reading that looks more certain than it is. The difference between a casual measurement and a defensible one lies in understanding the measurement zone, the […]

On the Probabilistic Interpretation of Type A Uncertainty: A Proposal for Normalization of Student’s t Distributions

September 3, 2026 Office

by Manuel Rodriguez Higuero The Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) [1] and its Supplement 1 based on Monte Carlo propagation (GUM-S1) [2] currently coexist as two conceptual frameworks that are partially […]

The Goal Posts, the Wind, and the Coin Flip: A Practical Guide to Measurement Decision Risk

September 3, 2026 Office

by Henry Zumbrun Every time a calibration laboratory issues a pass or fail statement, it is making a bet. The question is whether it knows the odds. Most do not, and neither do the customers […]

Hard Work Pays in the End

September 3, 2026 Michael Schwartz

I remember calibrating my first PXI instrument and wondering what I’d done to make the calibration gods so mad at me. At the time, I didn’t realize it was a blessing in disguise. PXI and […]

Surface Roughness, Texture, and Tribology

August 24, 2026 Office

Dr. Don Cohen, one of the country’s foremost experts in surface roughness, presents the Surface Roughness, Texture and Tribology short courses, covering a broad range of topics on surface texture and its impact on functionality. […]

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Axiospec Releases Free Suite of 15 Metrology Calculators

August 12, 2026 Office

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., August 7, 2026. Axiospec, a cloud calibration management platform from CaliTech LLC, has released a free suite of 15 metrology and quality calculators at axiospec.com/tools. No signup or email is required. The suite covers […]

NIST Researchers Correct Common Error Confounding Nanotech Measurements | NIST News

August 10, 2026 Office

August 6, 2026 Nanoscience, which studies small objects, has a big problem. According to a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the field confronts a pervasive error of data […]