Smart Metrology
Smart Metrology is the modern approach to industrial metrology. The name has been introduced by Jean-Michel Pou and Laurent Leblond, a French metrologists and a French statistician, in their book ""La Smart Metrology: De la métrologie des instruments... à la métrologie des décisions"". and has been immediately adopted by Deltamu, a French company providing services in the field of industrial metrology, to promote their innovative vision of metrology. The modern approach promoted by the Smart Metrology consists, mainly, in the full exploitation of all available data and information, including that provided by the Big Data, to implement  a correct, pertinent and efficient approach to the three pillars of metrology (uncertainty, calibration and traceability) in the industrial applications The Smart Metrology approach. The approach suggested by Smart Metrology is fully framed inside the ISO 9001 recommendations that any industry using a measuring instrument must keep them under control. The traditional approach. The traditional approach to industrial metrology tends to follow these steps: So, the actual results of the calibration may not even be used in the decision-making process. This way, metrology is often regarded as a pure cost and is actually not following the ISO 9001 quality  standards. Smart metrology innovation. Smart metrology follows a different approach to keeping the instruments under control. This new approach is aimed at achieving a higher efficiency according to the following steps: According to the above steps, metrology does no longer represent an useless cost, afforded mainly to satisfy the standards. Instead, it can be regarded as an investment to enhance the quality of industrial production. It makes full use of the measurement results and makes use of measurement uncertainty in the decision-making process.