Required Reading: Good to Great Leadership Lessons for Calibration Labs “Good is the enemy of great.” Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t Most companies want to be good. Most calibration laboratories think they are good; some are not, and people can feel free to comment on horror […]
Same Data, Four Answers: What the JCGM’s New Torque Example Teaches Us About Calibration Curve Fitting Eight torque points. One straight line. Four defensible answers. Figure 1A close-up of a torque cell being used in a Morehouse torque transfer machine That is the punchline of Example 9 in JCGM GUM-5:2026, the new examples volume in […]
JCGM GUM-5:2026 Has a Force Example in It! The Scatter Was Never the Story: The JCGM’s Breaking-Force Example and What Really Drives Force Uncertainty Steel wire rope used for hoisting in vertical mine shafts. Source: JCGM GUM-5:2026, Example 15, clauses 15.1–15.6. Thousands of workers ride steel wire rope down mine shafts every day, which is […]
Someone Taught Us Once. Here's How We Pay It Forward Through Community and Trustworthy Calibration Services Why our family endowed an engineering scholarship at York College of Pennsylvania, and why every manufacturer/calibration company in this county should consider something similar Somebody helped set the foundation for continuing education and learning. In my case it was […]
Tell Me Whose Day Was Better Because You Were in It: Showing Appreciation in the Metrology Community In December 1989, United States forces cornered Manuel Noriega inside the Vatican embassy in Panama City. The story everyone repeats is the rock playlist. Van Halen’s “Panama.” The Clash. Guns N’ Roses at volume, aimed at the nunciature […]
The ASTM E74 Lower Limit Factor: What it is, What it is Not, and How to Use it in a Measurement Uncertainty Analysis Many people in this business know their instruments, standards, and processes. The trouble starts when something new lands in the scope. A parameter shows up that nobody on staff has had to […]
