Industrial innovations have significantly changed the world, from the introduction of steam engines, then mass production, and more recently through automation based on electronics and information technologies.

Now the merging of physical, digital, and biological technologies has great potential to generate new innovations, boost economic growth, create jobs, and address global challenges such as providing quality healthcare for all and climate change.

For successful industrial innovation, measurement science must play its part by underpinning implementation of new production techniques and providing SI traceability for product quality assessments based on novel analytical techniques.