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1. What is calibration?

In its most simple form, a calibration is a comparison between two measurements. The context and associated terms around calibration can get a little confusing. Before we get to those however, let’s back up. What is a comparison between two measurements? Think of it like...

For the last two years I’ve had the privilege of travelling to Dubai to visit a loyal and valuable distributor of Dickson’s products. Dubai is an interesting and intriguing place, but in my travels, the camel milk operation that has been established at Camelicious may take the cake for "most...

We kicked off the year with a brand new construction project in our Addison facility. We asked for and received a lot of feedback from our customers (one of the nice thing about having an outside sales team) about their experiences recalibrating their units with Dickson. Some of the feedback...

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.

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...

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