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Modular vs. Monolithic Automation

December 14, 2017 Office
by Michael Schwartz Over the past 30 years of my software and automation career, I have migrated to a modular approach to software design. I come from an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) background and I […]
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Thoughts on Database Design

September 11, 2017 Michael Schwartz
I am most known in the industry for my abilities related to writing automated calibration procedures.  I have created projects in VB, Lab View, MET/CAL®, MUDCATS, C#, C++, and RMB, just to name a few.  […]
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SOA/CMC Editor & Search Tools

June 21, 2017 Michael Schwartz
Over the past four years, we at Cal Lab Solutions have been heads-down coding and designing new features for Metrology.NET®.  Our goal has been to Make Metrology Better!  The key members of our team are […]
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Creating a Metrology Taxonomy

February 23, 2017 Michael Schwartz
by Michael Schwartz & David Zajac Metrology is the science of measurement. For thousands of years we have been creating newer and better ways of measuring things, but in all that time, metrology still lacks […]
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Uncertainty Calculations That Excel!

December 2, 2016 Michael Schwartz
The other day I read an article titled “Five easy steps for adding measurement uncertainties to your calibration data.”  It described a very easy process of copying cells from one Microsoft Excel® file to another, […]
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Calibration Lab Vectors of Vulnerability

August 15, 2016 Office
by Marcus Vickers No, I am not talking about RF & Microwave calibration! In this context I am talking about the Vectors of Vulnerability through the calibration lab as it relates to Information Technology (IT) […]
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Hacker Crackdown

May 17, 2016 Michael Schwartz
I was recently on the road visiting my customers both new and old. During this trip I also wanted to check in with those customers we quoted but never got an actual purchase order from. […]
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Interfacing with Instrumentation

February 19, 2016 Michael Schwartz
Ever since I got into the metrology field, I have witnessed several changes related to how we interface with the test equipment. In the 1980s, there was very little automation; all the standards I had […]

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  • Beyond 4:1: What Calibration Ratios Were Meant to Do
  • Metrology for Newbs: Entering the Community, Not Just the Career
  • Resistance Decade Boxes – Where and How They are Used
  • Digitalizing the Bench: Why the Future of Metrology is Model-Driven
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