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  • [ January 31, 2020 ] Why USB VNAs? White Papers
  • [ October 2, 2026 ] What Calibration Evidence Can—and Cannot—Tell You When Buying Used Test Equipment White Papers
  • [ September 10, 2026 ] Setting Calibration Intervals from Your As-Found Data White Papers
  • [ September 3, 2026 ] Practical Use of Dry Block Calibrators Articles
  • [ September 3, 2026 ] On the Probabilistic Interpretation of Type A Uncertainty: A Proposal for Normalization of Student’s t Distributions Articles
  • [ September 3, 2026 ] The Goal Posts, the Wind, and the Coin Flip: A Practical Guide to Measurement Decision Risk Articles
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White Papers

An ISO/IEC 17025 2017 Software Assessment Tool on Steroids

March 23, 2026 Office
By Christopher L. Grachanen The National Association for Proficiency Testing (NAPT) is pleased to announce a major upgrade to its ‘NAPT 17025:2017 Lookup Tool’, hereby referred to as the tool. The tool’s original functionality was […]
Articles

Automating Calibration with LabVIEW: A Practical Guide for Calibration Laboratories – 3rd Continuum

March 4, 2026 Office
by Ajayvignesh Manonmani Velumani Digital Calibration Certificates (DCCs) are reshaping calibration documentation by turning certificates into structured, machine-readable data that can be searched, analyzed, and trusted digitally—rather than stored as static PDFs or paper records. […]
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Automation Corner

Working with Difficult Equipment

March 4, 2026 Michael Schwartz
I’m currently writing some automation for a piece of equipment I would classify as difficult to communicate with! And like you should never end a sentence with a preposition, this particular piece of equipment, every […]
Automation Corner

Computers Can Do Math!

December 11, 2025 Michael Schwartz
Today, in a meeting, we discussed separating raw data from its presentation. It is such a simple concept, but explaining the purpose of each one is more complex than I expected. So I’m dedicating this […]
Product Announcements

Fluke Introduces CalStudio, Software that Drives Efficiency and Collaboration in Calibration Labs

November 3, 2025 Office
Everett, Washington, Nov. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Fluke Corporation today announced CalStudio, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solution that transforms the way calibration labs operate by centralizing knowledge and procedures into a single, cloud-based platform. CalStudio empowers […]
Articles

Automating Calibration with LabVIEW:A Practical Guide for Calibration Laboratories – 2nd Continuum

September 16, 2025 Office
by AjayVignesh Manonmani Velumani, CLA Hello again, fellow metrologists and calibration enthusiasts! I’m thrilled to continue our journey into the world of automated calibration with LabVIEW. In our previous article, “Automating Calibration with LabVIEW: A […]
Automation Corner

AI Needs Well-Formatted Data

September 16, 2025 Michael Schwartz
A couple of months ago, I presented at NCSLI on AI (Artificial Intelligence) and why AI doesn’t work so well in Metrology. At the heart of the problem is the mess of unstructured data. Large […]
Product Announcements

Emerson Expands AI Capabilities into Test and Measurement Software Portfolio

July 22, 2025 Office
NI Nigel AI Advisor will transform how engineers approach test and measurement, cutting through complexity and accelerating workflows AUSTIN, Texas, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Emerson (NYSE: EMR), an industrial technology leader delivering advanced automation solutions, today announced […]

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  • What Calibration Evidence Can—and Cannot—Tell You When Buying Used Test Equipment
  • Setting Calibration Intervals from Your As-Found Data
  • Practical Use of Dry Block Calibrators
  • On the Probabilistic Interpretation of Type A Uncertainty: A Proposal for Normalization of Student’s t Distributions
  • The Goal Posts, the Wind, and the Coin Flip: A Practical Guide to Measurement Decision Risk
  • Hard Work Pays in the End
  • Surface Roughness, Texture, and Tribology
  • Axiospec Releases Free Suite of 15 Metrology Calculators
business calibration training digitalization dimensional Education electrical flow force Force & Torque freeware general industry standards ISO/IEC 17025 mass & weight measurement uncertainty Metrology 101 national metrology institutes news optical photometry pressure pressure & flow RF & Microwave software temperature
  • Office: A reader noticed the tolerances were not correct. Lower and upper limits in the table of the article have now…
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  • marlett-NSTec: In the article “Learning to Apply Metrology Principles to the Measurement of X-ray Intensities in the 500 eV to 110…
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