Automation Corner
Diff Tools & Revision Control
Most revision control tools come with a diff tool of some kind. And if you develop software and don’t use revision control or a diff tool of some kind, I have to say, “WTF?” A […]
software
Product Announcements
Morehouse is Excited to Announce the NEW MURA Chatbot
York, Pa, June 8, 2023: Morehouse Instrument Company, Inc. has announced today a new website feature. MURA, which stands for Measurement Uncertainty Resource Assistant, is the fastest and most comprehensive resource for all your force […]
Freeware
MetroloPy – Uncertainties Software
MetroloPy is a pure python package and requires Python 3 and the SciPy stack (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and IPython)… MetroloPy can do much more including Monte-Carlo uncertainty propagation, generating uncertainty budget tables, and curve fitting. […]
Product Announcements
Digital Surf Unveils Mountains® 10
Besançon, France, May 31, 2023 – Digital Surf today announced the release of the tenth major version of the company’s renowned Mountains® software analysis platform for surface metrology & microscopy, trusted by 50+ leading instrument […]
Automation Corner
Will ChatGPT Replace Me?
For those of you who have heard about ChatGPT or even played with it, this question of whether it will replace me doesn’t seem to be a question of “If” but more of a question […]
Automation Corner
The Hidden Cost of Hardware Upgrades
For years, I have been advocating and teaching the advantages of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and why we, in the metrology industry, need to move away from script-based programming for automation. This often involves explaining […]
News
New version of the JCTLM database launched | BIPM
The new version of the JCTLM Database of Reference Materials, Methods and Services for in vitro diagnostics went live on 3 October 2022.The database is accessible through the JCTLM web portal with the new search […]
Automation Corner
Ultra-Fast Development of Automated Calibration Procedures
My last Automation Corner was about Model Driven Engineering, and this one is an example of how Model Driven Engineering makes software development easier and faster. Over the past 25 years of writing automated calibration […]