The ‘scope’ of an accredited laboratory is a list of the different items the accrediting agency has determined they are capable of calibrating.

If your company intends on using an outside source for your calibration work, sooner or later a choice has to be made from a short list of candidates.

Panasonic introduced its new Ultra Compact Intelligent Calibration System.

Assuring the quality of a measurement is crucial. In order to achieve the finest measurement and thereby the correct decision based upon it, calibration of equipment both before and after use is essential.

A cost-benefit analysis is a decision-making tool. It is a process of adding up the benefits of doing something or buying something and subtracting the costs to help us decide whether that purchase or action is worthwhile.

A friend in the industry contacted me recently for suggestions on dealing with a request from a customer of their calibration service requesting the results of vision tests on their lab people.

The purpose of a process plant is to convert raw material, energy, manpower and capital into end products.

Regular readers of my rants on these pages will know that since I’m a pretty simple guy, it doesn’t take much to get me excited or amazed.