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The International Congress of Metrology from 21 to 24 September 2015

The International Congress of Metrology is to be the meeting-point for technical exchanges between all the actors of measurement: industrial users of equipments, technical experts, public and private laboratories, manufacturers and service providers.

The event takes place from 21 to 24 September 2015 (CIM 2015) in Paris (France) together with the ENOVA Show.

This congress is unique in Europe. It explores developments in measurement techniques, R&D advances and their implication for industry. It demonstrates how measurement improves, day-to-day, industrial processes and risk management.

The major topics of the Congress are presented within 6 industrial round-tables:

• Bestpratice in healthcare: contribution of metrology
• Energy transition: metrology meets challenges
• The world of soft metrology
• Outsourcing metrology: dream or reality?
• Agrifood: metrological advantage
• Risk management and control: new approach for ISO 9001

The highlights of CIM 2015:

• Daily animation on the Metrology Village: an open space which gathers visitors of the show, exhibitors concerned by the Congress' issue and all CIM participants.
• The opening session of September 21 with 2 presentations about emerging topics in metrology:
  
  • "Metrology in services" by La Poste group
  • "Metrology and forensics" by the Judicial Divison of the National Gendarmerie
• The plenary session of September 23 "Metrology 4.0" with the presentations of the most important national laboratories of metrology - the US NIST, the English NPL and the German PTB - about the metrology of tomorrow which is already sticking its noze in our everyday life.
• The intervention of Mr Claude Cohen Tannoudji, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997, during the closing session of September 24.

The full programme and the online registration are accessible on www.metrologie2015.com