Measure for Measure: Qualitative Indications From Quantitative Measuring Instruments
When we make measurements with inspection, measuring and test equipment (IM&TE), we assume and expect that all of the measurements are quantitative....
Measure for Measure: Challenges of Instrument Innovations
Humans are innovators. We are always inventing new materials, methods, devices or ideas. From time to time, certain innovations cause major, unforeseen shifts in theory and practice....
10 Quality Basics
In an overview designed to give quality newcomers a glimpse of the knowledge they need to succeed, ten regular Quality Progress contributors write on 10 basic quality topics that are fundamentals essential to surviving in a quality role. Topics covered...
Measure for Measure: Managing the Measurement System
ISO 10012:2003 helps you plan your total measurement system....
Measure for Measure: Comparing Specifications Made Easy
Manufacturers have many different ways to specify the performance of measuring instruments. It is often a struggle for us, the instrument users, to derive useful information from that multitude....
Measure for Measure: Working With Fixed Value Measurement Standards
Most instruments for measuring electrical quantities are calibrated by comparing their indication to a value provided by a measurement standard. Usually, the measurement standard can be adjusted to make the unit under test indicate the nominal value....
Calibration: Why It's Important
In my July 2005 installment in this series of articles on calibration, I talked about the trilogy of fast service, high quality and low price....
Calibration: Who Does It?
This column is the second of three that explore what calibration is, who does it and why it is important. This month's column looks at how calibration is viewed in different ways by different groups....
Calibration: What Is It?
According to the The International Vocabulary of General and Basic Terms in Metrology (VIM), metrology is "the science and practice of measurement." Metrology is critical to all the physical, chemical and biological sciences and the...
