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International Digital Calibration Certificate

October 23, 2020 Michael Schwartz

In the past 20 years, having a digital representation of a calibration certificate has been a topic of discussion. I remember attending my very first NCSLI Workshop & Symposium in 2001 and sitting in on […]

Is Basic Dead?

July 24, 2020 Michael Schwartz

Microsoft recently announced they will be dropping future support for Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) and focusing more on C# and other language support. I find this to be a great loss, especially for metrology. For […]

Metrology Automation Lunch & Learn

April 30, 2020 Michael Schwartz

Wow, how the world can change in just a few months. And each of us have had to adjust to the changing times. We at Cal Lab Solutions decided to start a Metrology Automation Lunch […]

Let’s Face It, Metrology Software is Complex!

January 27, 2020 Michael Schwartz

I have been writing custom metrology software for the last 20 years. And over the years, I have learned better, more efficient ways to write custom software. With every iteration, we discovered new ways to […]

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 […]

Moving Metrology Forward

April 8, 2019 Michael Schwartz

I just got back from the 2019 A2LA Technical Forum in Reston, Virginia and I was uber impressed with the size of the show. If you saw me there, I am sure we talked about […]

Software is Cheaper Labor

January 25, 2019 Michael Schwartz

Over the years I have watched several labs go through the decision process to purchase new hardware. Most labs have the same process: look at the work load requiring the new hardware, and calculate the […]

No Faking Automation

November 5, 2018 Office

by Michael Schwartz Automation has its own quality system automatically built in. When software performs the same test, the same way over and over again, it can’t be wrong. There is no fake it till […]