Automation Corner

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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® […]

You will usually hear me talking about all the great things that automation brings. And for the most part automation is good. But it is not without its drawbacks and so, with this article, I […]

What can be done with the big data we have been collecting? The metrology industry is sitting on mountains of collected data. So why is it that most of us have yet to find value […]

So what is good structure in software? What makes one language, design or architecture better than another? These are all very difficult questions to answer. So far, I have not found a litmus test; but […]