When a warehouse manager suspects poor system performance, the first step is typically to check the real data. Unfortunately, more than 50% of the time, system performance is measured incorrectly.

Process Engineer Richard Kasica of NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology holds a wafer of the type typically produced in the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition chamber. A new study ...

All analog measurements — voltage, current, temperature, humidity, etc. — include some amount of error. Your job is to minimize those errors enough to give your ...

A “standard reference thermoelectric module (SRTEM)*” for objectively measuring thermoelectric module performance has been ...

Test instruments such as oscilloscopes and DMMs (digital multimeters) often let you get the measurement results you need with just the press of a button. But the number on a meter's display or the ...

There are many ways that measurement can be used in the diagnostic process and in assessing the incidence of diagnostic errors, according to the committee that authored the Institute of Medicine’s ...

The venerable Kelvin-sensing circuit, or four-terminal measurement circuit, minimizes measurement errors that your test equipment and test leads can impose. It is named for William Thomson, Lord ...

Patch-clamp recording techniques have revolutionized understanding of the function and sub-cellular location of ion channels in excitable cells. The cell-attached patch-clamp configuration represents ...

Process Engineer Richard Kasica of NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology holds a wafer of the type typically produced in the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition chamber. A new study ...