Software is Cheaper Labor
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 […]
CEO of NPL speaks on importance of international collaboration during MoU re-signing in China | NPL News
Dr Peter Thompson, CEO at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), delivered a speech on the importance of international collaboration in addressing global pollution during a signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Addendum, with […]
WEST Acquires L-K Industries, Adding Key Houston Location
LOVELAND, Colo., Jan. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Western Energy Support & Technology, Inc. (WEST), an authority in flow measurement testing, calibration, consulting, and infrastructure, announced today that it has acquired substantially all the assets of […]
Hexagon strengthens Smart Factory position with autonomous production technologies from Etalon
Stockholm, Sweden, 7 January 2018 – Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital solutions, today announced the acquisition of Etalon, a provider of equipment calibration solutions. Etalon’s solutions continuously monitor and initiate compensation of machine […]
The GUM Tree Calculator (GTC)
The GUM Tree Calculator (GTC) is a data processing tool with full support for uncertainty calculations involving real and complex quantities. GTC is a stand-alone executable for Windows. It can handle instructions typedat the command […]
Historic Vote Ties Kilogram and Other Units to Natural Constants | NIST
Versailles, France—A convocation of delegates representing 60 countries voted today in Versailles to implement the most significant change to the International System of Units (SI) in more than 130 years. For the first time, all […]
No Faking Automation
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 […]
Calculating the Frequency Response of an Oscilloscope from a Transition Duration Measurement
by Donald Larson Many digital oscilloscopes have the capability of acquiring, displaying, and storing a digitized representation (the waveform) of an electrical signal. This digitization creates data, the waveform samples, that have discrete amplitude values […]