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~ 1IIIn 1IIIfi VOLUME 12 NUMBER 3 SEPT 1972
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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
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