Calibración: Filosofía en práctica (Hardcover)

Calibración: Filosofía en práctica (Hardcover) by Fluke Corporation

H ardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Fluke Corporation (May 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0963865005
ISBN-13: 978-0963865007
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1.2 inches

This book was written by the Fluke Corporation, a major manufacturer of quality electronic testing equipment such as digital multi-meters (DMM). Most chapters explain a feature or standard to be measured. The chapters explain how the standard is traceable to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Testing) and explain how the Fluke Corporation performs its calibration. This reader believes that if this subject matter appeals to anyone, the chapter overviews and summaries are the most interesting. The book has many schematics and shows various testing and calibration circuits, enough to cause anyones eyes to glaze over. This book is not really for someone in the general quality- calibration field interested in the "philosophy of calibration". I found it a narrow specific technical book that would be of interest to a few people planning to setup up a calibration laboratory for a large company or a service company. This book really goes in-depth into the calibrating equipment, circuits and various alternative ways to measure the same feature. I reviewed this book to let it be known that the title is a little mis-leading and gives no hint to the onslaught of technical information within. The book is more for someone known as a calibrator's calibrator. It will give some appreciation to why some DMM cost $10.00 and some over