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HP Archive This vintage Hewlett Packard document was preserved and distributed by www. hparchive.com Please visit us on the web ! On-line curator: Glenn Robb This document is for FREE distribution only! ~ 1IIIn 1IIIfi VOLUME 12 NUMBER 3 SEPT 1972 L[]~PUTER 11~[)E[) TEHflr.-i[] miTHE THRESH[]l[) by John Minck and Neil Neilson It has finally happened. Automation is knocking at the door of calibration laboratories. For many years most of us have watched automation moving through production facilities, ma- chine shops, and some times quality control labs and engineering labs. We've seen computers proliferating in data centers, not only for payroll and inventory matters, but begin- ning to move into instrumentation and data-taking with ever increasing speed. As repair and calibration technicians, we may have smugly sat back and said to ourselves that trend to see what it means in human istrative systems presently set up they'll never automate my job, terms. A lot of times a good way to for inventory calibration recall. largely because of its intricate inter- do this is to write down just what it 3. A way of relieving the routine and actions of knowledge, training, and represents and what it does not re- tedious procedures that require instrument complexity. present. so much knob twiddling and But now several well-known com- meter reading. panies have recognized the potential Computer aided testing is: of such automatic calibration sys- 1. A way of coping with tremen- An automatic system is nol: tems and are starting to put them on dously increasing instrument 1. A substitute for human judgment a production basis. Hewlett-Packard complexity and workloads which on quality and performance of an is no exception for we have been threaten to overwhelm the opera- instrument. working hard to implement the idea tion of typical calibration labs. 2. A substitute for the diagnostic of computerized testing. 2. A system for handling volumes of skills of an experienced techni- This might be a good time to take a data and test card information, cian. direct look at this dramatic new and linking directly with admin- 3. A job threat for the technician (co"'lo",,exr~1 YOUR PRIVATE LINE TO HP CUSTOMER SERVICE 11KlB11 (con