METCAL® Advanced Training
Advanced training for users with MET/CAL® prior knowledge – from advanced procedure development to ACC files, correction files and guardbanding.
Description
For users who want to use more than simple commands
The METCAL® Advanced training is for participants with prior knowledge in the MET/CALDesigned for ® programming. You should already have experience working with simple commands, registers, and basic measurement data acquisition. The seminar will delve deeper into the relevant topics of procedure development – from reviewing essential fundamentals to creating your own ACC files, correction files, and guardbanding.
- Analyze and expand existing procedures more safely
- Advanced MET/CALPractical application of ® techniques
- Understanding and creating your own ACC files and correction files
- Guardbanding in MET/CAL® understand and apply
- Perform practical exercises with sample solutions directly on the seminar PC.
What she expects
Advanced knowledge with many practical exercises
In-depth procedure development
Registers, variables, control structures, strings, measurement functions and error handling are repeated and expanded upon.
Practical experience with real technology
A Fluke calibrator and several multimeters are available for testing. Work is carried out directly with... MET/CAL®.
Small groups
A maximum of 5 to 8 participants ensures a calm learning environment, individual questions and focused work.
Documents for reference
The 160-page seminar materials are used in the seminar and later serve as a reference work in everyday laboratory work.
Our Process
Three days in Kassel (Germany) at 1A Cal
- Seminars begin daily at 08:30 a.m.
- End between 16:00 and 16:30 pm
- Times can be adjusted upon request on the first or last day of the seminar.
- Cold drinks, coffee, tea, fruit and pastries during breaks
- Lunch is provided.
- Optional: Lab tour with Josephson stress standard
Impressions from the training
Training room, workstations and practical exercises
Training room
The training room METCAL® Training in Kassel (Germany)
Own PC
Each participant works on their own PC with a large screen.
Practical exercises
During a seminar: practical exercises directly in MET/CAL®.
seminar topics
The contents of the Advanced training
The modules are compactly structured. This keeps the page clear without sacrificing any technical content.
Module 1: Review
- Procedure headers, comments, registers, arrays and variables
- Input and output of numerical data and strings
- Algebraic operations, comparisons and Boolean operations
- Control structures, loops and branches
- Measurement functions, HEAD, HEAD-2 and RSLT
- Error handling, string functions, date and time
- Several exercises with sample solutions
Module 2: Manual Standards
- Access to asset and cal data in the database
- Access and work with INI files
- Example: Calibration of DC current with a shunt
- ASSET command, INV and CAL
- exercise
Module 3: Various Techniques
- Wait-FSC
- Create sub-procedures and call them with CALL
- pass parameters
- Multiple procedures in one file
- PSUB and PSUBI
- PIC – Using pictures
- operator branch
Module 4: Editing and Creating ACC Files
- VSET and TSET
- Using TARGET
- inaccuracies in the standard
- Understand ACC files
- ACC-FSC and custom ACC files
- exercise
Module 5: Communication with devices
- Communication via RS-232
- GPIB interface
- VISA interface
- Practical exercise
Module 6: Application of Correction Files
- Concept of Correction Files
- Enter and interpolate correction values
- Practical tips
Module 7: Calculation of the measurement uncertainty
- The formulas
- Example 1
- Example 2
Module 8: Guardbanding
- What is guardbanding?
- Concept and implementation in MET/CAL®
- options and possibilities
- calculation examples
Appointments
Upcoming events 2026
| Appointment | Days | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 16.06.2026 | 3 | Kassel (Germany) (at 1A Cal) |
Your seminar leader
Mike Stotz
Fluke expert MET/CAL® and MET/TEAM®, since 2001 self-employed in consulting, seminars and database development for calibration laboratories.
Typical contents
Advanced topics at a glance
Cancellation
- Cancellations must be made in writing.
- Free of charge up to two weeks before the event begins.
- The full course fee is then due; a substitute participant can be registered.
- In the event of cancellation by the organizer, participants will be notified immediately; seminar fees already paid will be refunded.
Request a free consultation or quote now
Telephone: 06061 – 967 444 · Email: maik.stotz@stotz-software.de
