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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Data that are collected for the production of official statistics or, more generally, for statistical analyses nearly always contain measurement errors. National statistical institutes, other ...

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 ...

Measure twice, cut once. That’s sound advice, though no guarantee you won't measure wrong twice. Some measuring errors occur before the ruler is in hand, while interpreting plans. Other errors spring ...

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 ...