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Killing Conversations
February 2, 2021One of the more interesting books I’ve read in the last twenty years is “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation,” by Debra Tannen. It outlines how common, predictable, and at many times extremely challenging communication can be. No matter your situation (quick plug), I recommend you take a listen to what she […]
Artists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs: Pat Chapman, Painter
January 28, 2021For many years, local artist Pat Chapman’s beautiful talent was hidden out of fear. She began playing with art as a teenager and even spent time as an oil portrait artist in her thirties, but she was afraid that people wouldn’t like her paintings. It wasn’t until last year, after constant encouragement from her husband, […]
Artists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs Episode 8: Doug Sayer, Co-Founder of Premier Technology
December 1, 2020Doug Sayer, Co-Founder of Premier Technology, joins us for episode 8 of Artists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs (ae2). In the episode, Doug teaches us about the importance of specialized knowledge, a burning desire, and having an enormous stomach for risk when starting a new business. As a young man, Doug rode his motorcycle from Wisconsin to […]
Using Software Measurements to Ensure Quality at Speed
November 9, 2020This blog post outlines of how Hiller Measurements is (or in some cases, is planning to) implement “Quality at Speed” in the software organization, as well as a description of exactly what that means. Some of these ideas have come from various books over the years, others are my own. I’m not going to attribute […]
Hiller Measurements Announces Benoit Cloutier as Chief Financial Officer
November 2, 2020We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Benoit (Ben) Cloutier, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Hiller Measurements. Cloutier comes to Hiller with an impressive resume of past corporate leadership across the aerospace ecosystem. His combination of leadership and financial expertise make him a great asset to Hiller Measurements as we are experiencing large-scale […]
Introducing Hiller Product Reviews
October 23, 2020Back in the 1970s, I’m told IBM came up with a slogan you may have heard of: “No one got fired for buying an IBM computer.” Hmmmm, I wonder if that was really true. I sure don’t see any IBM computers anymore (Lenovo is a Chinese company these days). Regardless, that was a strong message […]
Artists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs Episode 7: Douglas Ferguson, President Voltage Control
October 13, 2020Episode 7 of Artists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs (ae2) introduces us to Douglas Ferguson, author of Beyond the Prototype and President of Voltage Control, a workshop agency that helps companies look past their current design processes. Douglas discovered early on that he was not built to be a cog in the big company machine and developed a passion […]
Hiller Measurements Named in $66M Award for Marine Corps Automatic Test Systems Program
September 28, 2020Hiller Measurements today announced we were awarded a $66,300,000 combined firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract for the Marine Corps Automatic Test Systems program, alongside two other companies. The contract will be used for the design and development of test program sets (TPS) and automatic test systems (ATS). This news follows the opening of our 41,000 […]
An Overview of Floating Point Equality
August 28, 2020As software engineers, particularly in the test and measurement industry, the singular purpose for many of our programs is determining whether a given DUT has passed or failed. How do we do this? Well, we measure things: voltages, currents, resistances, temperatures… the list goes on and on. But the measurements themselves aren’t sufficient. We need […]
Artists, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs Episode 6: Daniel Robinson, Red 6
August 20, 2020Like many teenage boys in the 1980’s, when Daniel Robinson saw Top Gun, he had visions of one day becoming a real-life Maverick, flying planes at mach speeds. Unlike most Top Gun fans, Robinson actually turned that dream into a career that led to the creation of Red 6, a company that is now revolutionizing […]