Articles Published in Cal Lab Magazine
Pieces Parts
by Dan Wiswell About thirty years ago I was doing some spring cleaning and decided to bring a few tables worth of items to a large flea market in south-central New Hampshire. I had an […]
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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. […]
Overview of the ISO/IEC 17025 Revision Process
by Diana Baldi & Heather A. Wade ISO standards are considered the top of the global standards hierarchy. This means that ISO standards supersede regional or national standards, where an equivalent ISO standard exists. All […]
ENOB: The Best Digitizer Perfomance Metric
by Andrew Dawson, Ph.D. While the nominal vertical resolution of a high-speed waveform digitizer (specified in bits) is often promoted, its true performance is provided by its measured Dynamic Parameters and in particular by its […]
Additive Manufacturing: New Frontiers for Production & Validation
by Peter de Groot Over the last few decades, additive manufacturing (AM)/3D printing has fundamentally changed the way that manufacturers approach product development. Industry is now almost universally aware of the term rapid prototyping, using […]
Metrology Across the Ages
by Dan Wiswell I’m not sure when it occurred exactly, but sometime during the age of reason there used to be an educated group of people that were called philosophers. The term itself defined these […]
Continuous Integration
by Michael Schwartz & David Kimery With today’s worldwide cloud-based computing solutions, downtime is not an option! Not even for scheduled system maintenance and updates. Customers want ZERO downtime, no exceptions. But how can we, […]
Temperature Calibrations, Part 4
by Ryan Egbert & Joseph Rindone The following article is the last of a four-part Metrology 101 series focusing on temperature. The written content provided here is also intended to be combined with demonstration videos […]