A calibration error in an instrument measuring sewage levels in the Stanley Park shaft of the city’s massive new $232-million Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel led to ...

Nearly 2,500 breath-alcohol tests conducted in drunken-driving cases across the state over a period of nearly four years used equipment with flawed quality control standards, which some defense ...

Making accurate delta-time measurements can be difficult, especially when trying to measure jitter. To ensure accuracy, you need to understand the various types of delta-time measurements, as well as ...

Calibration always seems to be scheduled at the most critical time in a project. For example, assume that a piece of test equipment is on a six-month calibration cycle. At month five, the design ...

CHECKING OUT THOUSANDS of instruments and calibrating them prior to installation in new power plants is largely a manual job. Documentation of instrument calibrations is also usually done manually. In ...

A program for calibration and routine testing of weighing instruments ensures accurate results. A measurement of any kind is affected by the errors and uncertainties that exist in that measurement ...

Instrument calibration should never be taken for granted, and thermal mass flowmeters are no exception. Flowmeters can be built with the highest safety ratings, features, and functions and the most ...

It is a stringent requirement for all quality systems to calibrate the equipment used for measurements. The International Vocabulary of Metrology defines the term calibration as an “operation that, ...