Customizing Automation in the Calibration Laboratory

摘要

I think the majority of calibration personnel would agree that automation in the laboratory is a tremendous asset. Some of the benefits of automation would be removal of operator bias, the ability of the technician to multitask and the ease of data collection just to name a few. These, along with other non-tangible assets, lead to cost savings and better efficiency. Of course these cost savings and efficiency come at a price, so the pay back time of the purchased software and software maintenance contracts plays a role in determining these benefits. There are a number of manufactures and software companies that produce calibration automation software but what do you choose? This was my dilemma. This paper describes my solution to this dilemma.