GUM Workbench as measurement modelling and uncertainty estimation software: experience at University of Tartu

Experience with the GUM Workbench software at the University of Tartu is described. Although primarily meant for measurement uncertainty estimation, the scope of use of GUM Workbench is significantly broader: it allows one to analyse one's measurement procedure and to find out how to improve it. The most important features of the software in addition to providing the measurement uncertainty for a specific measurement procedure are the possibilities of finding out what are the main contributors to the measurement uncertainty and presenting the whole measurement procedure—description, equations, data and comments—in a very clear and accessible way. The usefulness of these features in teaching is specifically stressed.