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The Business of Calibration: The Role of Marketing & Customer Service

September 3, 2024 Office

by Greg Powell, B.S., M.B.A. The calibration laboratory is increasingly viewed as a business operation. In-house labs are called on to justify their expenses relative to the cost of a commercial lab. Commercial laboratories are […]

Selecting a Reputable Proficiency Test Provider

July 26, 2024 Office

by Christopher L. Grachanen A proficiency test (PT) is a blind test to participants that is intended to prove or disprove participant’s measurement or testing competence. Any action that breaks the integrity of that process […]

The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2024

June 17, 2024 Office

The U.S. National Science Board (NSB) is congressionally mandated to release summary reports on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), from nine Indicator reports, in even years. The 2024 edition of The STEM Labor Force: […]

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May 15, 2024 Office

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Some Perspective on Risk and Decision Rules in Calibration

February 1, 2024 Office

by James G. Salsbury When an accredited laboratory makes a statement of conformity to a specification, ISO/IEC 17025 requires the use of a decision rule that takes into account the level of risk associated with […]

Pushing the Observer Effect

February 1, 2024 Office

by Dan Wiswell We’ve all heard people speak of accuracies and tolerances in more colorful language than what would be expected in a metrology lab. “Plus-or-minus a hand grenade” or, “Close enough for government work” […]

Moving Away from Waterfall Metrology

February 1, 2024 Michael Schwartz

Over the years, I have had one foot in the metrology/test and measurement world and the other foot in software and software architecture. With two different perspectives, I tend to look at things from multiple […]

EMPIR project videos explaining aspects of magnetic calibrations and measurements freely available – EURAMET News

January 18, 2024 Office

EMPIR Capacity Building project Traceability Routes for Magnetic Measurements (TRaMM, 21SCP02) is a training project, where INRIM, the NMI for Italy, is transferring knowledge and expertise in the field of magnetic measurements and calibrations to […]