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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 […]

IniValueEditor

September 25, 2015 Office

IniValueEditor.exe is a specialized editor for allowing safer and more convenient editing of INI files than using Notepad.exe. The editor was originally designed as an external extension tool to assist programs written using the Fluke […]

IC Measure: Free Software for On-Screen Measurement and Image Capture

September 23, 2015 Office

IC Measure is a versatile, high-performance application for the measurement of lengths, surfaces and angles. Its simple user interface also provides image capture and image enhancement functions. The IC Measure calibration tool makes it possible […]

It’s All About Test Points

August 16, 2015 Michael Schwartz

Recently, I had a conversation with a lab manager about their lab and how they measure productivity. This really got me to thinking about how we measure productivity in this industry. As in any industry, […]

RESTful Communications for Metrology

May 16, 2015 Michael Schwartz

I have spent the better part of the last two years researching the ins and outs of enterprise solutions. I wanted to truly understand what makes these systems function, from both an implementation and user […]

Intelligence at the End of the Wire

February 16, 2015 Michael Schwartz

In today’s world, computers are everywhere and in everything, as well as at the heart of our test equipment. If you would have told me 25 years ago that my oscilloscope would come with Windows® […]

METAS VNA Tools

January 11, 2015 Office

VNA Tools II is free and supports most of the Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs) in today’s market. The software simplifies your tasks of generating accurate measurement uncertainty and vindicating metrological traceability. The software is ideal […]