NIST Improves Flagship Device for Measuring Mass
In a brightly lit subterranean lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sits a room-sized electromechanical machine called the NIST-4 Kibble balance.
In a brightly lit subterranean lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sits a room-sized electromechanical machine called the NIST-4 Kibble balance.
In our ongoing series of CIMdata articles on engineering.com, we’ve focused primarily on the digital (aka “vi
For owners and operators in the agricultural and food-processing industries, Jan.
Producing quality work is imperative in every field, particularly in the construction industry.
In a press statement released on Jan. 6, 2023, the European Commission reported the adoption of a proposal to allow more time to certify medical devices to mitigate the risk of shortages.
Corrective action and preventive action (CAPA) is probably the most important process in any quality management system because so much else depends on it.
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Despite the important and ever-increasing role of artificial intelligence in many parts of modern society, there is very little policy or regulation governing the development and use of AI systems in the United States.
An improvement to a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a frequency comb enables it to measure light pulse arrival times with greater sensitivity than previously possible—potentially improving measurements of distance along with applications such as precision timin
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