In 2018, life sciences and analytical instrument makers kept up the momentum of the last few years: overall instrument sales for the 20 firms that C&EN tracks rose 6.2%. Although economic conditions ...

The premise of measuring tools has always been simple: They're used to gather a precise set of data. What good is a tape measurer, calliper or rulers if not to provide us with hard numbers to work ...

The world has come quite some way from simple, mechanical measuring instruments. Nowadays, our devices, from iOS to Android, have some of the best measurement apps. Since they arrived on the scene, ...

The global measurement instrumentation market is experiencing robust growth, propelled by Industry 4.0, the expansion of ...

The SJ-220 portable surface roughness measuring instrument has touchscreen and wireless capabilities. The intuitive touchscreen has a user interface that supports fingertip operations, including flick ...

I get this question quite often. With designs increasingly using serial data buses, engineers are looking for the best way to evaluate digital timing systems, clock performance, and debug causes of ...

Most oscilloscopes these days offer from 25 to 50 automated basic measurements with optional measurements for specialized analysis running close to 100. With all this measurement horsepower available ...

The demand to increase energy efficiency in electrical products is driving the development of more accurate measurement instruments. Modern instruments now can quantify incremental gains made as ...

Before making energy-efficiency improvements within a commercial building, a contractor must establish a baseline measurement. Determining these starting measurements, and equating the sum of ...