# Presentation: 526205

## Metrology for the Americas: Strategies

**Oscar Harasic**
***Principal Specialist***
***Department of Science and Technology***
**oharasic@oas.org**
** **

- Inter-American System of Metrology (SIM)

***Workshop:***
**Global Perspective and Strategies for Education about Standardization, February 21-22, 2008**

## Purpose of SIM

- Promote,  build and support cooperation, among National Metrology Institutions (NMIs) of the Americas to facilitate trade and market equity, and, thus improve quality of life for the countries of the region.

## Promote, support and coordinate the integration of reliable measurement infrastructure systems in the Americas, enhancing regional  and global commerce while improving the quality of life

- A representative, transparent and integrated regional metrology organization committed to ensure uniformity of measurement in the Western hemisphere and to extend existing international confidence in measurement activities-

**Mission**

**Vision**

## Subregional Metrology Groups in SIM

**NORAMET**

**ANDINET**

**SURAMET**

**CARIMET**

**CAMET**

**NMIs**

**Subregional Metrology Groups in SIM**

## Structure

**Honduras**
**El Salvador**
**Nicaragua**
**Panama**
**Costa Rica**
**Belize**

**NORAMET**
**CAMET**
**ANDIMET**
**SURAMET**
**CARIMET**

**Structure**

**SIM**
**Presidency**

**SIM General **
**Council**

**Executive **
**Secretariat**
**OAS**

**Permanent **
**Technical **
**Advisor **
**NIST**

**Technical**
**Metrology**
**Committee**

**Professional**
**Development**
**Committee**

**Canada**
**USA**
**Mexico**

**NORAMET**

**CAMET**

**CARIMET**

**Venezuela**
**Colombia**
**Perú**
**Bolivia**
**Ecuador**

**Argentina**
**Brazil**
**Paraguay**
**Uruguay**
**Chile**

**ANDIMET**

**SURAMET**

**Dominican Rep.**
**Granada**
**Jamaica**
**St. Vincent & Gran**
**Antigua & Barbuda**
**St. Lucia**
**St. Kitts & Nevis**
**Barbados**
**Dominica**
**Guyana**
**Surinam**
**Trinidad y Tobago**
**Haiti**
**Bahamas**

## Raises the levels of metrology in each of the countries of the Hemisphere
Contributes to the establishment of an infrastructure for measurements to ensure equitable business transactions
Fosters competitiveness and the quality of the manufacturing sector and promotes commercial transactions
Identifies sectors and institutions to carry out multinational activities to support the development of metrology
Contributes to the metrology infrastructure required for the protection of the environment, the increased use of resources and promote the general well-being  of the population, including issues related to health and security

**Raises the levels of metrology in each of the countries of the Hemisphere**
**Contributes to the establishment of an infrastructure for measurements to ensure equitable business transactions**
**Fosters competitiveness and the quality of the manufacturing sector and promotes commercial transactions**
**Identifies sectors and institutions to carry out multinational activities to support the development of metrology**
**Contributes to the metrology infrastructure required for the protection of the environment, the increased use of resources and promote the general well-being  of the population, including issues related to health and security**

## Awareness Seminars

- Honduras   	      	100
- El Salvador 	      	100
- Trinidad and  Tobago   	 60
- Panama  		 80
- Nicaragua 	      	 90

- Antigua and Barbuda  	  40
- Saint Lucia 	   	  65
- Bolivia  		  65
- Venezuela  	    	  86
- Trinidad and Tobago	126
- Paraguay 	    	  38
- Colombia (acústica)     	  37

**Awareness Seminars**

- TOTAL: 1017 participants from 13 countries

**  ****Host Country**

**Participants**

**  ****Host Country**

**Participants**

*Source*
*Report of activities of SIM Human Resources Development, 2000-2005*
*Metrology in the Americas, OAS, Abril 2007.*

## Training Courses 2000-2006

**2001: 142**
**2002: 120**
**2003:   71**
**2004:   94**
**2005:   31**
**2006: ****100**
**Total: 668**

**Mass (5)**
**Number of substance pesticide**
**Thermometry (2)**
**Gas Metrology**
**Dimensional Metrology (4)**
**Comparison of reference blocks **
**Sp****ectrophotometer**** **
**Pressure**
**Legal Metrology (2)**
**MG Food**
**Uncertainty of the measurements**
**Metrology in chemistry (2)**
**Quality management systems**
**Clinical Thermometers and sphygmomanometers**** ** **(2)**
**Gas Station, approval and verification model**
**Time and Frequency**
**Par torsional**
**Multifunctional calibration**
**Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments**** **
**Hydrometers**

**Mexico, Querétaro**
**Jamaica, Kingston**
**Argentina, Buenos Aires**
**Brasil, Sao Paulo**
**Peru, Lima**
**Chile, Concepción**
**Costa Rica, San José**
**Ecuador, Quito**
**Honduras, Tegucigalpa**
**EUA, Miami**
**Nicaragua, Managua**
**Saint Lucia**
**Barbados**
**Paraguay, Asunción**
**Brazil, Rio de Janeiro**

**In**
**(15)**

**Carried out by**

**CENAM, Mexico**
**INMETRO, Brasil**
**LATU, Uruguay**
**NIST, EUA**
**NRC, Canadá**

**A**
**B**
**O**
**U**
**T**

**When**
**How**

**Training Courses 2000-2006**

*Source*
*Report of activities of SIM Human Resources Development, 2000-2005*
*Metrology in the Americas, OAS, Abril 2007.*

## Laboratory Intercomparisons 

**2000-2006**

**Length****	****	****  ****	****              14**
**Acoustics, Ultrasound & **
**Vibrations****	****	****               ****	****      5**
**Chemistry****	****   ****	****              ****	****    19 **
**Electriciy and Magnetism****	****  ****	****    14**
**Mass****	****	****	****              ****	****    37**
**Photometry and Radiometry            8**
**Temperature  ****	****	****                6**
**Time and Frecuency  ****	****                1**

**Magnitude:**

## 15 NMI or designated laboratories are regular participants of SIM comparison exercises (only 3 in 2002).

**15** NMI or designated laboratories are regular participants of SIM comparison exercises (only 3 in 2002).
-  **7**** **countries participating regularly in the CCQM meetings and activities in 2006 (in 2002 only Canada, Mexico and the United States).
**4**** **countries** **(Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the United States) have measurement capabilities published in the *BIPM Key Comparison Database*.  **Argentina, Chile** and **Uruguay** are in the process of doing so.

*Source*: SIM CMWG Report

**Chemical Metrology **
** ****2000-2006**

- Partial support of the German Government in this program

## Development    2000           2007

*Source:*
*Report of activities of SIM Human Resources Development, 2000-2005*
*Metrology in the Americas, OAS, Abril 2007.*

**2000**

**2007**

- 2007

## Promotes the development of science and technology
Promotes and supports competitiveness and productivity in the manufacturing sector
Helps manage commercial transactions between countries (seller and buyer)
Contributes to eliminate technical barriers to trade
Ensures the quality of goods and services to consumers
Prepares and assists SMBs with technological, economic and management resources to compete with expanded markets
Reduces internal and external factors impacting the growth of SMBs
Fosters industrial modernization
Promotes integration and regional cooperation
Helps protect consumers, producers, the environment, resource use, etc.

**Promotes the development of science and technology**
**Promotes and supports competitiveness and productivity in the manufacturing sector**
**Helps manage commercial transactions between countries (seller and buyer)**
**Contributes to eliminate technical barriers to trade**
**Ensures the quality of goods and services to consumers**
**Prepares and assists SMBs with technological, economic and management resources to compete with **_**expanded markets**_
**Reduces internal and external factors impacting the growth of SMBs**
**Fosters industrial modernization**
**Promotes integration and regional cooperation**
**Helps protect consumers, producers, the environment, resource use, etc.**

## Challenge:

***Make the annual project of SIM a permanent program of the OAS***

**Challenge:**