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Stay up to date with changing trends in metrology and calibration, hear interviews with industry experts and learn more about the industry as a whole. This podcast is for people in the industry, customers of calibration, quality assurance people and anyone else wanting to learn more about measurements.
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Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Metrology Today Podcast S4E2: Galen Liao, MSC President 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025

Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Metrology Today Podcast S4E1: Patrick Jester
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Patrick Jester is the visionary behind Blackthorn Consulting Group, Inc. in Baton Rouge, LA, where he delivers transformative quality management system and training solutions that convert knowledge into measurable success. As a Lead Assessor for ISO/IEC 17025 Calibration Laboratories and an ASQ Certified Quality Auditor, Patrick plays a pivotal role helping companies reach their strategic objectives. His leadership credentials include previously serving as Vice President of Quality & Corporate Compliance for a large, multiple location calibration laboratory, and as a Divisional NCSLI Vice President and contributing to various NCSLI Committees. Patrick is the current NCSLI Board of Directors Secretary and ASQ Measurement Quality Division Chair.

Monday Nov 11, 2024
Metrology Today Podcast S3E11: Season Finale - A reflection on the season
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Join Henry and Ryan as they reminisce back on the fantastic guests of Season 3.

Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Metrology Today Podcast S3E10: Georgia Harris - NIST Ret.
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Join us in this episode as we sit down with Georgia Harris, a seasoned expert with over 30 years of experience in U.S. Weights and Measures. Georgia’s career includes 5 years with the State of Minnesota and an impressive 28 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she made significant contributions before her recent retirement.
In our conversation, Georgia shares insights from her extensive career, including her pivotal role in evaluating and accrediting State weights and measures laboratories and her work ensuring accurate measurements for over 350,000 calibrations each year. She also discusses her involvement in training and proficiency testing for State metrologists and the development of key documentary standards for Weights and Measures field enforcement and laboratory activities. Georgia has not only presented and published widely across the U.S. but also on the global stage, including Canada, Mexico, South Africa, and Colombia.
Her accolades include multiple best paper awards and notable honors such as the MSC Andrew J. Woodington Award, the NCSLI Education and Training Award, and the ASQ Measurement Quality Division Max J. Unis Award. She also served as a liaison to the Measurement Science Conference and held a long tenure on the NCSLI Board of Directors, including a term as President. Tune in to hear about her journey, her insights into the field of metrology, and her experiences from a distinguished career dedicated to advancing measurement science.

Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Metrology Today Podcast S3E9: Tony Hamilton
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
On today's episode we have Tony Hamilton, here is a little more information on Tony: Tony Hamilton has more than 20 years of experience in the metrology field. He received his technical training in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear qualified electronics technician. During his six-year stint, he served four years on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), qualifying as a reactor operator, shutdown reactor operator, and reactor technician.
After leaving the Navy in 1997, Tony worked as a nuclear instrument technician at the Surry Power Station in Virginia. In the summer of 2000, he accepted a position as a process instrument technician for Eli Lilly and Company. With a strong background in physics and math, Tony was asked to assist in the Company’s primary calibration laboratory during a restructuring, which began in the summer of 2002. This position became permanent by the end of that year. In 2006, he became the primary metrologist over pressure and vacuum measurement systems, and in 2008 he was promoted to the position of engineer. Tony has calibration experience in many types of water chemistry, electromagnetics – dc/low frequency, mechanical, and thermodynamic measurements. As a metrologist, he was also responsible for the validation, work instruction, maintenance, and training.
Tony has more than 16 years of experience using the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty (GUM) in the development of complex uncertainty budgets. As of June 2021, Tony accepted a quality engineer role as the quality assurance representative for the Company’s primary calibration lab, which has been accredited by the ISO/IEC 17025 since 2008.
In addition to his accomplishments at Lilly, Tony is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) since 2010, as well as a member of its Measurement Quality Division. He is qualified as an ASQ Certified Calibration Technician and Certified Quality Auditor and is a contributing author to the ASQ Metrology Handbook, 3rd Edition, as well as the 5th Edition of the NCSLI RP - 6, Recommended Practice for Calibration Quality Systems for the Healthcare Industries (2022). Tony earned his Bachelor of Science in business management from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2005.
Tony was accepted and trained as a calibration assessor in 2018, becoming a lead assessor the following year. He is qualified to assess calibration facilities to the ISO/IEC 17025:2017, ANSI/NCSL Z540-1-1994 (R2002), and ANSI/NCSL Z540.3-2006 (R2013), as well as ISO 15195 and its dependent standards, ISO 15193, 15194, 17511, and 18153.

Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Metrology Today Podcast S3E8: Under Pressure with Cees Veth
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
In this episode we have the pleasure of interviewing Cees Veth, a high pressure expert from the Netherlands! Now when we say Cees works with high pressure we mean it... he owns a deadweight standard that produces ~1625 MPa, or 235686.3 PSI!
In the episode we mention the Measure Magazine article featuring Cees. Unfortunately that article is no longer public, but we will update the description if we have a link to share it.

Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
NCSL International Annual Preview with Mike Schwartz
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
Tuesday Jun 25, 2024
The 2024 NCSL International Conference is coming up July 6th through 11th. Mike Schwartz from Cal Lab Magazine and Cal Lab Solutions joins us to chat about some of the activities, tutorials, and more!
Main page for the conference: https://ncsli.org/mpage/ws_2024

Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
General Metrology Special - Decision Rules Panel
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
This is a special episode for our General Metrology course coming soon, but also for the release of a fantastic new guidance document on Decision Rules written by Henry Zumbrun, Greg Cenker, and Dilip Shah!
Download the document here: https://mhforce.com/decision-rule-guidance-book-download/
We are not doing a bio at the beginning of this episode because we have done another episode with each of them.
Please check out those episodes here for their individual bios: Dilip Shah: https://metrologytoday.podbean.com/e/s2-e5-dilip-shah/
Greg Cenker: https://metrologytoday.podbean.com/e/industry-risk-concerns-panel-discussion-part-1/
Henry Zumbrun: https://metrologytoday.podbean.com/e/dont-wing-it/

Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
S3E5: Heather Wade
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Heather A. Wade, ASQ-CCT, ASQ-CQA is a recognized metrology subject matter expert & internationally sought presenter. She excels at presenting useful and easy-to-implement practices. She is Editor of ASQ's Metrology Handbook, 3rd Edition. She is ASQ Measurement Quality Division's Immediate Past Chair. A graduate of University of Michigan with a B.S. in Biology, Heather has worked as a microbiologist, filter test specialist, laboratory compliance officer, extraction chemist, and analytical chemist before moving full-time into metrology. She brings all her nearly 30 years of professional experience together to provide “Pain Relief for Measurement Headaches” for her consulting clients. Find her on LinkedIn or at www.HeatherWadeGroup.com

Thursday Mar 21, 2024
S3E4: Walter Nowocin - IndySoft, Co-Author of The ASQ Metrology Handbook
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Walter Nowocin is the Life Sciences Product Manager for IndySoft Corporation. Walter works with development, marketing, and sales to ensure that IndySoft is optimized to support calibration quality systems in regulated industries while being compliant with FDA, GMP, and ISO requirements.
Walter has over 40 years of calibration experience with Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device manufacturer, as a Calibration Department Senior Engineering Manager and with the United States Marine Corps as a Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory Master Sergeant.
Walter is Co-Chair of the NCSL International Healthcare Metrology Committee and is the Coordinator of the NCSLI Minnesota Section. Walter is the recipient of the 2023 NCSLI Education and Training Award and is a Co-Author of the Third Edition of the ASQ Metrology Handbook. Walter has a Masters in Engineering Management degree from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota and is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM). https://www.linkedin.com/in/walter-nowocin-mem-asem-fellow-b7334217/.