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 […]
Articles by Michael Schwartz
Michael Schwartz completed training at Lowry AFB in 1989 and was honorably discharged after 11 years of serving in the US Army. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Business Management and a minor in Computer Science. He spent two years writing compliance testing software and database applications while stationed at White Sands Missile Range in NM. After leaving the military, he wrote automation software for five years before starting his own automation engineering company in the Denver Metro area. Since 2003, Cal Lab Solutions, Inc. has provided automation solutions to calibration labs around the world.
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 […]
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 […]
The Need for Model-Driven Metrology Software Engineering
I am going to try and take a huge concept in software engineering and design, break it down into its core functions, then show how it applies to metrology software in less than 850 words. […]
The Hidden Costs of Software Development
There is a hidden cost in developing and supporting automated calibration procedures, that is the cost of supporting and updating the software after the initial development cost. The industry sets an average metric of 80%. […]
Explain It
Recently, I was asked to explain Metrology.NET®, usually an easy task, so I thought. What is it that Metrology.NET does, without comparing it to a completely different software product. And, I was asked to explain […]
Multiple Levels to Metrology Software
I have been developing automated calibration procedures for more than 20 years now, and if there is one thing I have learned is no two projects are the same! Metrology Software and its complexity can […]
TCP/IP & The Mini-Calibration Network
Today, many of the units coming in for calibration don’t have a GPIB interface. All they have are a Universal Serial Bus (USB) or a TCP/IP Local Area Network (LAN) interface. When connected to the […]