Lab automation: Some buy, some build.

Test & Measurement World, December, 2006

Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor The buy versus develop decision depends in part on an organization's width and depth and whether it's commercial or military. To find out why these organizations chose the paths they did, I interviewed members of their engineering staffs. I met with Tony Giannasca, metrology manager at Analog Devices, at his Wilmington, MA, lab.

I also spoke by telephone with Marc Monnin, automation programmer for the Air Force's Metrology and Calibration (AFMETCAL) program in Heath, OH. Off the shelf Analog Devices maintains its central calibration lab in Wilmington, where Giannasca and three technicians calibrate some 6000 instruments per year. The lab consists of four stations covering DC/low frequency, RF,...

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