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.

One of the most common measurement errors is using the wrong tool for the job. For example, using a tape measure to estimate small mechanical tolerances or relying on a bathroom scale to track precise ...

In order to measure the mechanical properties of materials in compression, tension, bending or torsion, a universal testing machine is utilized. This article outlines the two different types ...

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 ...

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

Measurement error models address the deviation between observed and true values, thereby refining the reliability of statistical inference. These frameworks are ...

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 ...

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 ...