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 […]
