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Metrological Challenges of Plastics Recycling

May 12, 2022 Office

by Martti Heinonen Europe aims at climate neutrality by 2050; to achieve this, plastic recycling needs to be increased through better processes and technologies. There is an increasing need for measurement technology that enable efficient […]

Pieces Parts

May 12, 2022 Office

by Dan Wiswell About thirty years ago I was doing some spring cleaning and decided to bring a few tables worth of items to a large flea market in south-central New Hampshire. I had an […]

Metrology Across the Ages

March 3, 2022 Office

by Dan Wiswell I’m not sure when it occurred exactly, but sometime during the age of reason there used to be an educated group of people that were called philosophers. The term itself defined these […]

Entergy’s Waterford 3 nuclear plant failed to properly calibrate radiation monitoring equipment | Nola.com News

March 1, 2022 Office

by M. Scheifstein, Originally posted February 15, 2022 A failure to periodically calibrate radiation monitoring equipment at Entergy Louisiana’s Waterford 3 nuclear power plant in Killona has earned the company a verbal slap on the wrist […]

Selecting a Calibration Management Software System in a Regulated Environment

March 29, 2021 Office

by Walter Nowocin Selecting a Calibration Management Software System is a critical process for a calibration laboratory, especially in a bio-medical regulated environment. However, there are few examples or documents that explain this process from […]

Measurement data in IoT networks

March 26, 2021 Office

PTB News 2.2021 PTB offers users from industry a new service. It can now validate whether measurement data that are transmitted within IoT networks comply with essential metrological requirements. For this purpose, PTB’s TraCIM service, […]

Customer Technical Qualification in Analyzing of the Accreditation Scopes of Calibration Laboratories

January 27, 2021 Office

by Suelí Fischer Beckert and Renan Ednan Flôres In the context of metrological confirmation, calibration is an essential process in all quality assurance efforts. Several organizations choose to outsource this activity to accredited laboratories in […]

Introduction to Statistics in Metrology

December 31, 2020 Office

First edition, 2020. ISBN: 13-978-3030533281. Available through Amazon. This book provides an overview of the application of statistical methods to problems in metrology, with emphasis on modelling measurement processes and quantifying their associated uncertainties. It […]