News – Page 27 – Cal Lab Magazine

IAS Personnel Certification Body Accreditation under ISO/IEC Standard 17024 is First to be Recognized by Pacific Accreditation Cooperation

May 31, 2016 Office

The International Accreditation Service (IAS) is the first accreditation body globally to have its Personnel Certification Body (commonly abbreviated as ‘PCB’ or ‘Persons’) accreditation program recognized under the Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (PAC). This is a […]

NPL News – Creator of the moving coil watt balance passes away

May 6, 2016 Office

Dr Kibble worked at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) from 1967 to 1998 as an experimental physicist. He was instrumental in reshaping the International System of Units (SI), and is best known for his conception […]

NIST’s Million-Pound Weight Stack Restoration is Complete

April 25, 2016 Office

It’s official: NIST’s 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine – the largest in the world – is back in one piece after a colossal 16-month effort to overhaul the system for the […]

Head to Head: Photonic Pressure Sensors vs. Mercury-Based Standard

April 21, 2016 Office

When a team of researchers at NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) first tested a new kind of pressure sensor two years ago, initial results showed it was faster and had higher resolution than the traditional, […]

Transcat Expands Presence in Southern California with Acquisition of Excalibur Engineering, Inc.

April 4, 2016 Office

ROCHESTER, NY, April 1, 2016 – Transcat, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRNS) (“Transcat” or the “Company”), a leading provider of accredited calibration and compliance services and value-added distributor of professional grade handheld test, measurement and control instrumentation, […]

Transcat Expands Services Business with Acquisition of Spectrum Technologies

December 30, 2015 Office

ROCHESTER, NY, December 30, 2015 – Transcat, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRNS) (“Transcat” or the “Company”), a leading provider of accredited calibration and compliance services and distributor of professional grade handheld test, measurement and control instrumentation, announced […]

Danaher Announces New Diversified Industrial Growth Company to be Named Fortive Corporation

December 3, 2015 Office

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) (the “Company”) today revealed the name of the new diversified industrial growth company expected to launch in 2016 as Fortive Corporation. Fortive will be comprised […]

A New, World-Class Facility for Infrared Calibrations

October 21, 2015 Office

Source: http://nist.gov/pml/div685/grp03/new-facility-for-infrared-calibration.cfm NIST is about to open the world’s most accurate facility for calibrating infrared (IR) detectors. It is made possible by the establishment of an extremely precise reference scale for detector performance based on NIST’s […]