It is a new year and it is already proving to be an exciting one. We’ve broken ground on our new calibration lab (I’ll do a post on that in the near future) and have a number of new projects on the horizon.

Dickson's FT520 Paperless Touchscreen Data Logger/Char Recorder was recently featured as a New and Noteworthy Product by Pharmacy Purchasing & Products (PP&P).

Nick and I are currently at AABB's Annual Meeting & CTTXPO in San Diego, CA. AABB is the American Association of Blood Banks and they deal with the acquisition, handling, and storage of blood for hospitals, clinics, research.

This week Nick and I have been down in Puerto Rico visiting customers and attending the Interphex Conference. The conference is a major gathering of pharmaceutical manufacturers and medical device manufacturers. The companies with booths have many different devices from automated packaging and...

Dickson recently upgraded its aging trade show booth. It was a long time coming, but it was very worth the wait. Our new booth looks great and really gives us a professional appearance (at least we think so!). Check it out on the right.

Recap

In Beat the Heat (part 1) I talked about issues someone recording temperature (and humidity) may face when going through the extreme heat of the summer. Also, here's the weather for the week my experiment/sample was conducted (same image from part 1):

Much of the country has been getting slammed by heat waves this past week. According to the Chicago Tribune we may see record breaking temperatures in Chicago today. The hot weather wreaks havoc on utilities, people, and products. In part one of this post I'm going to discuss how the hot weather...

This is part four of our Cold Chain Summit Series. You can read part one, part two, and part three to catch up. Quickly though, we've been discussing what the Cold Chain is, why it is important and how it impacts your products and goods.

This is the third part of our Cold Chain Summit Series. In part one of this series we discussed what the cold chain is and why it is important. In part two we discussed stability testing and why that is important.