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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 […]

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, […]

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) […]

METAS UncLib

June 9, 2016 Office

An advanced Measurement Uncertainty Calculator METAS UncLib is a generic measurement uncertainty calculator developed by METAS as part of the VNA Tools II project. METAS UncLib is written in C# within the .NET framework. Software development […]

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. […]

PXI Interoperability – How to Achieve Multi-Vendor Interoperability in PXI Systems

February 19, 2016 Office

by Dave Brannon Test system developers generally require a large variety of test instruments to meet system needs. When the instruments are sourced from different suppliers, the system developer must have confidence that they will […]

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 […]

Metrology, NOSQL & REST

November 13, 2015 Michael Schwartz

The other day I had a frustrating conversation with a longtime friend and fellow developer related to metrology database design. My company built a system called Metrology.NET™ and designed it to work with any database […]