MSA Good Measurement Great Business

Final Conference Programme

Venue Millennium Hotel Queenstown – October 2015

<<< Click here to download detailed printable version >>>  Last Updated: 01 October 2015

Conference Plenaries and Speaker Bio’s

Alain Rufenacht – NIST (USA)

Alain Rüfenacht was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and completed his Ph.D. degree on high temperature superconductors at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland in collaboration with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory.  In 1986 the first of the ceramic high temperature superconductors were discovered at this IBM laboratory by Bednorz and Müller who earned the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.  Alain’s involvement with the cutting edge of superconducting technology continued at the Swiss National Measurement Institute METAS in Bern and then with the National Institute of Standards and Metrology in Boulder, Colorado where the application of superconductors to metrology has been pioneered.  The group that Alain works in developed the superconducting devices that are the basis for New Zealand’s Josephson voltage standard. Alain is in New Zealand to assist MSL with developing a Josephson programmable voltage standard for making state of the art ac voltage measurements.

The New SI:  Impact of Quantum Voltage Standards in the Proposed Redefinition of the SI Units 

In 2018, the International System of Units (SI) will be revised so that the kilogram, the kelvin, the ampere, and the mole will be redefined in terms of fundamental physical constants.  Many of the implementations of the new definitions will depend on new types of measuring instruments using superconducting technologies developed over the last couple of decades. In this talk, physicist Dr Alain Rufenacht will describe the work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, USA) in leading the development of these technologies and their application to new high-accuracy techniques for measuring voltage, mass, and temperature.

Dr Mary Quin – Callaghan Innovation

Dr Mary Quin is the inaugural Chief Executive of Callaghan Innovation.  She returned to New Zealand to take up the role in May 2013, after more than 30 years working overseas in senior executive roles in NASDAQ-listed companies such as Eastman Kodak Company and Xerox, where she was VP of Strategy and Business Development for Xerox’ US$5.5 billion Production Systems Group.

Her most recent role was as President of the 2,800-person US support services company, NANA Management Services LLC in Alaska. Dr Quin graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) with First Class Honours in Physics. She completed a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University in Illinois and after working in research and development for engineering company Raychem for several years, attended Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Jo Finer – Fonterra

As Director Group Regulatory, Jo leads regulatory affairs for Fonterra to ensure full compliance with food regulations, and advocacy so as to optimise market access for our current product range and new innovations.   Until recently, Jo led the Product Assurance team, developing and implementing Fonterra’s global food safety and quality strategy, standards framework, food safety risk management and providing a quality advisory function to support Fonterra’s business units. 

Jo has 23 years of technical, quality and general management experience in the New Zealand dairy industry, having entered the industry on the Graduate Programme.

Additionally, Jo is Vice President of SSAFE, a global organisation of leading consumer food companies working to enhance food safety.

Greg Allnutt, MNZM – Results Group

At The Results Group, Greg’s purpose is to make a measurable difference to the companies he works with. 

Greg is a Senior Business Strategist and has particular expertise in strategy development and execution; operations planning and management; coaching, training and facilitation; leadership of change and transformation; and the development and maintenance of key stakeholder relationships both within NZ and internationally.  Greg’s background includes senior operations management and his leadership experience is from a combination of the military, public, private and not-for-profit sectors. This experience is supported by a Master’s Degree in Management and a Post Grad in Business.  Greg was recognised as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his expertise in strategy and execution in the 2006 New Year’s Honours.

The Results Group are world class leaders in strategic planning, strategic execution and research based frameworks and tools that drive successful business outcomes.  The biggest challenge in business today is executing effective business strategy in amongst the ever changing challenges of business as usual. Greg & the Results team brings research based “best practise” management and leadership thinking into the companies they work with.

Tim Ward

A born and bred Southlander, Tim completed his Bachelor of Commerce Degree at Otago University. After seven years’ experience in Chartered Accountancy, Tim joined BDO in 1986 and was admitted into Partnership in 1987. BDO is the fifth largest full-service audit, tax and advisory firm in the world and have almost 60,000 people in 1,328 offices across over 152 territories. They offer comprehensive local knowledge and experience within an international context.

Tim’s primary responsibility is meeting the business services requirements of a diverse range of business clients. Tim is an expert on taxation advice and he is a member of BDO’s National Tax Group.  Insolvency, Business Valuation and Feasibility Study assignments complete the services he provides.  Tim was chairman of the Spicer & Oppenheim National Partnership, for a three year term and he has been a member of BDO’s National Management Board.

Tim is a great speaker and extremely well qualified to facilitate the commercial side of the Lab Managers forum. Delegates will learn volumes from Tim’s sessions in the programme.

Alan Brady MNZM – Founder Gibbston Valley Winery

Alan Brady is a pioneer grower and producer of Central Otago wines but claims he is a winemaker by accident.  With a background in journalism Alan left Northern Ireland in 1959 to take on a role with the Manawatu Evening Standard before moving south as a reporter with the Otago Daily Times.  In 1969 Alan joined the NZBC in Dunedin working on Radio and TV broadcasting.  He purchased 16 acres of land at Gibbston in 1976 wanting to do something different and planted an ‘experimental’ vineyard in 1981. At 45 degrees south of the equator everyone thought it was too cold, too high and too far south for grapes, but Alan had a hunch and released Central Otago’s first commercial vintage in 1987. The wine quickly gained considerable recognition, creating Central Otago’s first footprints in the world of winemaking.  Alan was a founding member and past president of the Central Otago Winegrowers Assn and served on the executive of the New Zealand Winegrowers Institute. After his retirement as General Manager of Gibbston Valley Winery which he’d developed into a large operation including a restaurant, wine cave, outdoor concert venue attracting thousands of visitors every year, he built a second winery Mount Edward, also in Gibbston in 1998 as a small Pinot Noir specialist producer, before “retiring” in 2004.  He continues to make wine every year under the “Wild Irishman” label and is a director of Felton Road Wines Ltd.  In 2012 he published his autobiography “Pinot Central – A Windmaker’s Story” (Penguin)”.

Awards include:
1996 – Queens Birthday Honours – Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit “services to the wine industry”
1996 – Heart of the District Award (Queenstown Lakes District Council) “Outstanding community service”
2011 – Sir George Fistonich Medal – awarded to “Legends of New Zealand wine”
2012 – Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award
2013 – Inducted into the New Zealand Wine Hall of Fame

Alan will talk alongside Kirsten Creasy (Hill Labs) about the development of winemaking in the Otago region and how regulations in the industry have provided NZ producers the scope to produce top quality wines that are internationally recognised. An interactive talk (that will include some wine) demonstrating the value of growers, regulators and labs working together.

Dieter Adam – NZ Manufacturers and Exporters Association

Newly appointed CEO, Dieter Adam has worked with a large number of New Zealand’s leading food and beverage exporters, as well as manufacturers in the agritech sector, helping them grow their export businesses.

With a Ph.D in plant biotechnology and having held research positions in Germany and Denmark, Dieter arrived in New Zealand from Germany in 1986 to take up an academic position at the University of Waikato.  He joined the commercial world in 1994 and has held senior management positions in the primary industry (Rayonier New Zealand, Livestock Improvement Corporation), as well as his own consultancy business and more recently as Director – Food & Beverage/Biotechnology at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.

Dieter’s experience covers senior executive and governance roles in the manufacturing and service sectors combined with business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships, both internationally and in New Zealand.

Richard Suckling – Fonterra

Richard Suckling, Fleet Services Technical Manager, joined Fonterra in 2001 and is responsible for all technology on the Fonterra Milk Collection Fleet as well as technology across the Fonterra light fleet business units in New Zealand and Australia.

A strong focus on reliable technology solutions which are safe, efficient and accurate Richard has worked in partnership with NZ Trading Standards to achieve some of these outcomes. 

Workshops – Wednesday 14th – Friday 16th October

New Zealand’s Place in the International Measurement System

Stephen O’Brien (Trading Standards) Llew Richards (IANZ) Tim Armstrong (Measurement Standards Lab)

Every industrialised country has within its infrastructure, five key organisations that manage and oversee all aspects of its measurement system: its standards and conformance infrastructure.  In New Zealand these organisations are

*      The Ministry of Business Innovations and Employment (MBIE)
*      Trading Standards (TS)
*      The Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand (MSL)
*      International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ)
*      Standards New Zealand

This forum will provide an overview of the operations of each of these organisations, how and why they operate and cooperate within New Zealand, and how they interact with the corresponding organisations of other countries, in order than New Zealand’s Measurements are sound and recognised world-wide. Time is allocated for questions and discussion.

Developments in Pressure Measurement

Neville Owen (National Measurement Institute Australia)

This workshop, spread over two one-hour sessions, will provide attendees with a good overview of recent developments in pressure measurement and calibration. Time is also allocated for an extended discussion of revision of the MSA test methods. 

Using IR thermometers in the food industry and cold chain

Peter Saunders (Measurement Standards Lab)

This 40 minute workshop will provide users of low-temperature infra-red radiation thermometers (IRTs) with all the advice they need to use them properly. The discussion will cover the different errors that occur in use, how to carry-out measurements that avoid these errors, and how to check the thermometer at the ice point.

Successful Calibration with Portable Temperature Calibrators

David Southworth (Isotech)

This short 40 minute workshop will provide attendees with advice on the best-practice use of dry block calibrators. These are widely used to calibrate temperature sensors and can cover the range from -100 °C to 1300 °C. Manufacturers promise ease of operation and they can be used successfully but there are pitfalls. If care is not taken results can be poor.

Measurement Uncertainty for Beginners

Blair Hall, Rod White (Measurement Standards Lab)

This one-hour workshop will provide newcomers to the test and calibration business with an introduction to measurement uncertainty.  It will cover why we need measurement uncertainty, how to calculate uncertainty, how to find sources of uncertainty, and how to use uncertainty in your measurement processes.

 

Lab Managers Forum – Friday 16th October

Jo Finer (Fonterra), Tim Ward (BDO), Greg Allnutt (Results Group)

In Australia and New Zealand, many businesses engaged in test and calibration must grapple with the problems of attracting and maintaining competent staff, funding and utilising expensive measuring equipment that must perform well, maintaining accreditations while at the same time coping with all the management problems of running their departments or business.   This forum, provides team leaders, managers and CEO’s with an opportunity to participate in the following presentations.

* Growing and positioning your facility for the future.  
* Improving quality, productivity and profitability
* Costs and cash flow
* Improving your leadership skills
* Staff Retention
* Marketing your business
* Mergers / Acquisitions / Sale
* Network with other likeminded delegates 
* Learn from experienced business strategists 

While this forum is suited to management, all delegates are welcome.

Further details are available here.   (Last updated 5th September 2015)

 

Oral Presentations – Wednesday 14th – Friday 16th October

• Stability and accuracy of base metal thermocouples
• Toward a Measurement Information Infrastructure
• Gauge block traceability in NZ
• Did Homershams get one over Teltherm?
• Self-Validation to Combat Thermocouple Drift During High Temperature (>1000 °C) Measurement in Industry
• Sampling and sample integrity to ensure good measurement
• Types of conformity assessment 
• Measuring the bulk impedance of brain tissue in vitro
• Lung cancer risk of airborne particles for Australian population
• Speed Accuracy of GPS Receivers
• The Physics Connection: The Welch-Satterthwaite formula of statistics and its link to electromagnetic theory and thermodynamics 
• The calibration of high precision autocollimator
• Efficient determination of measurement repeatability in calibration of pressure-measuring devices
• How does NATA Accreditation contribute to confidence in the results you receive?
• Pressure Calibration Considerations for Field Applications
• Relative humidity calibration
• The relevance of technology change on testing procedures
• Transformer calibration
• Accuracy specifications, compliance statements and reference instrument uncertainty
• Digital multimeter calibrations from 3.5 to 8.5 digits
• Applications of the Reference Step method in DC voltage traceability
• The challenges of LED based light testing and measurements: an overview and a new international Standard
• Accuracy/Error of Illuminance Meters under a variety of lighting conditions
• Spectrophotometry Plagues: Sources of Error by Example
• Take your calibration laboratory to large customer sites
• Volume of bottled beverages
• Quantitative measurement of paralytic shellfish toxin
• Development and Commercialisation of a Novel Method for Weighing Shipping Containers
• Challenges and direction that Parcel and Parcel Pallet freight
• Aviation Calibration requirements
• How Can The Regulatory Controls on Weighing And Measuring Instruments Improve Measurement Capabilities for Industry

 

MSA Good Measurement Great Business

Final Conference Programme

Venue Millennium Hotel Queenstown – October 2015

<<< Click here to download detailed printable version >>>  Last Updated: 01 October 2015

Conference Plenaries and Speaker Bio’s

Alain Rufenacht – NIST (USA)

Alain Rüfenacht was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and completed his Ph.D. degree on high temperature superconductors at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland in collaboration with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory.  In 1986 the first of the ceramic high temperature superconductors were discovered at this IBM laboratory by Bednorz and Müller who earned the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.  Alain’s involvement with the cutting edge of superconducting technology continued at the Swiss National Measurement Institute METAS in Bern and then with the National Institute of Standards and Metrology in Boulder, Colorado where the application of superconductors to metrology has been pioneered.  The group that Alain works in developed the superconducting devices that are the basis for New Zealand’s Josephson voltage standard. Alain is in New Zealand to assist MSL with developing a Josephson programmable voltage standard for making state of the art ac voltage measurements.

The New SI:  Impact of Quantum Voltage Standards in the Proposed Redefinition of the SI Units 

In 2018, the International System of Units (SI) will be revised so that the kilogram, the kelvin, the ampere, and the mole will be redefined in terms of fundamental physical constants.  Many of the implementations of the new definitions will depend on new types of measuring instruments using superconducting technologies developed over the last couple of decades. In this talk, physicist Dr Alain Rufenacht will describe the work of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, USA) in leading the development of these technologies and their application to new high-accuracy techniques for measuring voltage, mass, and temperature.

Dr Mary Quin – Callaghan Innovation

Dr Mary Quin is the inaugural Chief Executive of Callaghan Innovation.  She returned to New Zealand to take up the role in May 2013, after more than 30 years working overseas in senior executive roles in NASDAQ-listed companies such as Eastman Kodak Company and Xerox, where she was VP of Strategy and Business Development for Xerox’ US$5.5 billion Production Systems Group.

Her most recent role was as President of the 2,800-person US support services company, NANA Management Services LLC in Alaska. Dr Quin graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) with First Class Honours in Physics. She completed a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University in Illinois and after working in research and development for engineering company Raychem for several years, attended Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Jo Finer – Fonterra

As Director Group Regulatory, Jo leads regulatory affairs for Fonterra to ensure full compliance with food regulations, and advocacy so as to optimise market access for our current product range and new innovations.   Until recently, Jo led the Product Assurance team, developing and implementing Fonterra’s global food safety and quality strategy, standards framework, food safety risk management and providing a quality advisory function to support Fonterra’s business units. 

Jo has 23 years of technical, quality and general management experience in the New Zealand dairy industry, having entered the industry on the Graduate Programme.

Additionally, Jo is Vice President of SSAFE, a global organisation of leading consumer food companies working to enhance food safety.

Greg Allnutt, MNZM – Results Group

At The Results Group, Greg’s purpose is to make a measurable difference to the companies he works with. 

Greg is a Senior Business Strategist and has particular expertise in strategy development and execution; operations planning and management; coaching, training and facilitation; leadership of change and transformation; and the development and maintenance of key stakeholder relationships both within NZ and internationally.  Greg’s background includes senior operations management and his leadership experience is from a combination of the military, public, private and not-for-profit sectors. This experience is supported by a Master’s Degree in Management and a Post Grad in Business.  Greg was recognised as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his expertise in strategy and execution in the 2006 New Year’s Honours.

The Results Group are world class leaders in strategic planning, strategic execution and research based frameworks and tools that drive successful business outcomes.  The biggest challenge in business today is executing effective business strategy in amongst the ever changing challenges of business as usual. Greg & the Results team brings research based “best practise” management and leadership thinking into the companies they work with.

Tim Ward

A born and bred Southlander, Tim completed his Bachelor of Commerce Degree at Otago University. After seven years’ experience in Chartered Accountancy, Tim joined BDO in 1986 and was admitted into Partnership in 1987. BDO is the fifth largest full-service audit, tax and advisory firm in the world and have almost 60,000 people in 1,328 offices across over 152 territories. They offer comprehensive local knowledge and experience within an international context.

Tim’s primary responsibility is meeting the business services requirements of a diverse range of business clients. Tim is an expert on taxation advice and he is a member of BDO’s National Tax Group.  Insolvency, Business Valuation and Feasibility Study assignments complete the services he provides.  Tim was chairman of the Spicer & Oppenheim National Partnership, for a three year term and he has been a member of BDO’s National Management Board.

Tim is a great speaker and extremely well qualified to facilitate the commercial side of the Lab Managers forum. Delegates will learn volumes from Tim’s sessions in the programme.

Alan Brady MNZM – Founder Gibbston Valley Winery

Alan Brady is a pioneer grower and producer of Central Otago wines but claims he is a winemaker by accident.  With a background in journalism Alan left Northern Ireland in 1959 to take on a role with the Manawatu Evening Standard before moving south as a reporter with the Otago Daily Times.  In 1969 Alan joined the NZBC in Dunedin working on Radio and TV broadcasting.  He purchased 16 acres of land at Gibbston in 1976 wanting to do something different and planted an ‘experimental’ vineyard in 1981. At 45 degrees south of the equator everyone thought it was too cold, too high and too far south for grapes, but Alan had a hunch and released Central Otago’s first commercial vintage in 1987. The wine quickly gained considerable recognition, creating Central Otago’s first footprints in the world of winemaking.  Alan was a founding member and past president of the Central Otago Winegrowers Assn and served on the executive of the New Zealand Winegrowers Institute. After his retirement as General Manager of Gibbston Valley Winery which he’d developed into a large operation including a restaurant, wine cave, outdoor concert venue attracting thousands of visitors every year, he built a second winery Mount Edward, also in Gibbston in 1998 as a small Pinot Noir specialist producer, before “retiring” in 2004.  He continues to make wine every year under the “Wild Irishman” label and is a director of Felton Road Wines Ltd.  In 2012 he published his autobiography “Pinot Central – A Windmaker’s Story” (Penguin)”.

Awards include:
1996 – Queens Birthday Honours – Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit “services to the wine industry”
1996 – Heart of the District Award (Queenstown Lakes District Council) “Outstanding community service”
2011 – Sir George Fistonich Medal – awarded to “Legends of New Zealand wine”
2012 – Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award
2013 – Inducted into the New Zealand Wine Hall of Fame

Alan will talk alongside Kirsten Creasy (Hill Labs) about the development of winemaking in the Otago region and how regulations in the industry have provided NZ producers the scope to produce top quality wines that are internationally recognised. An interactive talk (that will include some wine) demonstrating the value of growers, regulators and labs working together.

Dieter Adam – NZ Manufacturers and Exporters Association

Newly appointed CEO, Dieter Adam has worked with a large number of New Zealand’s leading food and beverage exporters, as well as manufacturers in the agritech sector, helping them grow their export businesses.

With a Ph.D in plant biotechnology and having held research positions in Germany and Denmark, Dieter arrived in New Zealand from Germany in 1986 to take up an academic position at the University of Waikato.  He joined the commercial world in 1994 and has held senior management positions in the primary industry (Rayonier New Zealand, Livestock Improvement Corporation), as well as his own consultancy business and more recently as Director – Food & Beverage/Biotechnology at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.

Dieter’s experience covers senior executive and governance roles in the manufacturing and service sectors combined with business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships, both internationally and in New Zealand.

Richard Suckling – Fonterra

Richard Suckling, Fleet Services Technical Manager, joined Fonterra in 2001 and is responsible for all technology on the Fonterra Milk Collection Fleet as well as technology across the Fonterra light fleet business units in New Zealand and Australia.

A strong focus on reliable technology solutions which are safe, efficient and accurate Richard has worked in partnership with NZ Trading Standards to achieve some of these outcomes. 

Workshops – Wednesday 14th – Friday 16th October

New Zealand’s Place in the International Measurement System

Stephen O’Brien (Trading Standards) Llew Richards (IANZ) Tim Armstrong (Measurement Standards Lab)

Every industrialised country has within its infrastructure, five key organisations that manage and oversee all aspects of its measurement system: its standards and conformance infrastructure.  In New Zealand these organisations are

*      The Ministry of Business Innovations and Employment (MBIE)
*      Trading Standards (TS)
*      The Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand (MSL)
*      International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ)
*      Standards New Zealand

This forum will provide an overview of the operations of each of these organisations, how and why they operate and cooperate within New Zealand, and how they interact with the corresponding organisations of other countries, in order than New Zealand’s Measurements are sound and recognised world-wide. Time is allocated for questions and discussion.

Developments in Pressure Measurement

Neville Owen (National Measurement Institute Australia)

This workshop, spread over two one-hour sessions, will provide attendees with a good overview of recent developments in pressure measurement and calibration. Time is also allocated for an extended discussion of revision of the MSA test methods. 

Using IR thermometers in the food industry and cold chain

Peter Saunders (Measurement Standards Lab)

This 40 minute workshop will provide users of low-temperature infra-red radiation thermometers (IRTs) with all the advice they need to use them properly. The discussion will cover the different errors that occur in use, how to carry-out measurements that avoid these errors, and how to check the thermometer at the ice point.

Successful Calibration with Portable Temperature Calibrators

David Southworth (Isotech)

This short 40 minute workshop will provide attendees with advice on the best-practice use of dry block calibrators. These are widely used to calibrate temperature sensors and can cover the range from -100 °C to 1300 °C. Manufacturers promise ease of operation and they can be used successfully but there are pitfalls. If care is not taken results can be poor.

Measurement Uncertainty for Beginners

Blair Hall, Rod White (Measurement Standards Lab)

This one-hour workshop will provide newcomers to the test and calibration business with an introduction to measurement uncertainty.  It will cover why we need measurement uncertainty, how to calculate uncertainty, how to find sources of uncertainty, and how to use uncertainty in your measurement processes.

 

Lab Managers Forum – Friday 16th October

Jo Finer (Fonterra), Tim Ward (BDO), Greg Allnutt (Results Group)

In Australia and New Zealand, many businesses engaged in test and calibration must grapple with the problems of attracting and maintaining competent staff, funding and utilising expensive measuring equipment that must perform well, maintaining accreditations while at the same time coping with all the management problems of running their departments or business.   This forum, provides team leaders, managers and CEO’s with an opportunity to participate in the following presentations.

* Growing and positioning your facility for the future.  
* Improving quality, productivity and profitability
* Costs and cash flow
* Improving your leadership skills
* Staff Retention
* Marketing your business
* Mergers / Acquisitions / Sale
* Network with other likeminded delegates 
* Learn from experienced business strategists 

While this forum is suited to management, all delegates are welcome.

Further details are available here.   (Last updated 5th September 2015)

 

Oral Presentations – Wednesday 14th – Friday 16th October

• Stability and accuracy of base metal thermocouples
• Toward a Measurement Information Infrastructure
• Gauge block traceability in NZ
• Did Homershams get one over Teltherm?
• Self-Validation to Combat Thermocouple Drift During High Temperature (>1000 °C) Measurement in Industry
• Sampling and sample integrity to ensure good measurement
• Types of conformity assessment 
• Measuring the bulk impedance of brain tissue in vitro
• Lung cancer risk of airborne particles for Australian population
• Speed Accuracy of GPS Receivers
• The Physics Connection: The Welch-Satterthwaite formula of statistics and its link to electromagnetic theory and thermodynamics 
• The calibration of high precision autocollimator
• Efficient determination of measurement repeatability in calibration of pressure-measuring devices
• How does NATA Accreditation contribute to confidence in the results you receive?
• Pressure Calibration Considerations for Field Applications
• Relative humidity calibration
• The relevance of technology change on testing procedures
• Transformer calibration
• Accuracy specifications, compliance statements and reference instrument uncertainty
• Digital multimeter calibrations from 3.5 to 8.5 digits
• Applications of the Reference Step method in DC voltage traceability
• The challenges of LED based light testing and measurements: an overview and a new international Standard
• Accuracy/Error of Illuminance Meters under a variety of lighting conditions
• Spectrophotometry Plagues: Sources of Error by Example
• Take your calibration laboratory to large customer sites
• Volume of bottled beverages
• Quantitative measurement of paralytic shellfish toxin
• Development and Commercialisation of a Novel Method for Weighing Shipping Containers
• Challenges and direction that Parcel and Parcel Pallet freight
• Aviation Calibration requirements
• How Can The Regulatory Controls on Weighing And Measuring Instruments Improve Measurement Capabilities for Industry