Automatic calibration

Started by A.alhudar, 04-17-2013 -- 23:27:32

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A.alhudar

Hi.....
Guys Iam trying to prove my self in my section.pmel.
Iam thinking of making a software that can do an automatic calibration for multimeters if possible and I want you guys to guide me and tell me what I need to make that software.
For example fluke 87v.


USMC kalibrater

We would need far more details to begin to make reccomendations. 
Besides Fluke METCAL already does just what you want to do
Jason
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." -General James Mattis

Hawaii596

Fluke MetCal, SureCal and a couple of others are well established as automation software and plenty of already written procedures out there.  I know I love to tinker and learn and develop.  If you really want to develop something yourself (although, again, MetCal has already developed it - and you may have already written procedures available for 1000's of different models), you could consider National Instruments Labview.  I use Labview for some other automation tasks.  It is not focused particularly on calibration though, and may be more difficult to tailor to calibration.  MetCal and the other calibration-specific automation programs are very well suited to creating data sheets, reporting uncertainties, automatically communicating with the calibration recall database, etc.  Labview is not set up for that.  I am running some automated trend analysis routines on my DC voltage standards in the standards lab.  But it doesn't generate reports the MetCal does.
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Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
from lecture to the Institute of Civil Engineers, 3 May 1883