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5 Precision Engineering Division
Pages 25-29

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From page 25...
... These standards are measured by a whole array of instrumentation ranging from atomic force microscopes to conventional and frameless coordinate measuring machines using contact, particle beam, and optical measuring probes, machines, and systems. Features of interest range in size from 1 kilometer (calibrated telecommunication cables)
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From page 26...
... The quality of the AML facilities has translated into instrument performance that routinely provides fundamental limits independent of environmental effects. Equipment availability in the PED is good, but the acquisition of equipment appears to be limited and overly reliant on fortuitous connections between PED personnel and outside organizations.
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From page 27...
... PED contributions have included the following:  ASME B89.7.3.1-2001: Guidelines for Decision Rules: Considering Measurement Uncertainty in Determining Conformance to Specifications  ASME B89.7.3.3-2002: Guidelines for Assessing the Reliability of Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty Statements  ASME B89.4.22-2004: Methods for Performance Evaluation of Articulated Arm Coordinate Measuring Machines  ASME B89.7.4.1-2005 (technical report) : Measurement Uncertainty and Conformance Testing: Risk Analysis  ASME B89.7.5-2006: Metrological Traceability of Dimensional Measurements to the SI Unit of Length  ASME B89.4.19-2006: Performance Evaluation of Laser-Based Spherical Coordinate Measurement Systems  ASME B89.7.3.2-2007: (technical report)
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From page 28...
... These include nanometrology, improving optical resolution, better sensors, and establishing metrology standards for fuel cell catalysts. At the same time it has dropped projects best handled elsewhere, such as sieve standards and civil engineering metrology now done more conveniently by GPS.
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From page 29...
...  PED management needs to develop and implement a critical-skills staffing plan independent of future budget developments so that its critical expertise within NIST is maintained. At present there is too much dependence on guest workers, which appears to be as a direct consequence of flat long-term funding.
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