NCSL International

Serving the World of Measurement

Jeff Gust

Vice President - Outreach

10/25/20181

Introduction

• NCSL International:

– Member based, volunteer driven professional trade

organization

– Provides the best opportunities for the world’s

measurement science professionals to network and

exchange information, to promote measurement

education and skill development and to develop a

means to resolve measurement challenges

– Open to any organization or individual with an interest

in the science of measurement

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Introduction

Vision:

Be the world’s recognized source for measurement

science expertise and information

Mission:

To provide the best opportunities for the world’s

measurement science experts and practitioners

• to network and exchange information;

• to promote measurement education and skill

development; and

• to develop means for organizations to resolve

measurement challenges

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History

• 1961 – Organization was formed as The National

Conference of Standards Laboratories

• Sponsored by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards

(NBS)

• William Wildhack from NBS was first Liaison

Representative

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History

• Topics of first workshop in 1962

– “Calibration, Traceability and Measurement

Agreement”

– “Evaluation, Selection and Training of Measurement

Standards Personnel”

– “Standards Laboratory Work

Load Control”

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History

• 1964 - NCSL was collaborating with other

organizations such as the Instrument Society of

America (ISA) and the Precision Measurement

Association (PMA)

• 1974 – Membership opened to non-US organizations

• 1990 – Instrumental in communicating and

disseminating information on the changes to the SI

volt and ohm in 1990

• 2000 – Changed name to

NCSL International

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Board Members

2019-2020

Dana Leaman

President 2019-2020

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Leadership

President Jim Olthoff, NIST

Executive VP Dana Leaman, NIST NVLAP

Treasurer Georgette Macdonald, NRC Canada

Secretary Rob Knacke, A2LA

Outreach Jeff Gust, Fluke

Central US Bill Miller, Lockheed Martin

Canada Ingrid Ulrich, Transcat

Marketing Jack Somppi, T&M Consulting

Lab Operations Jim Smith, Boeing

Industrial Marcus MacNeely, MMC Consulting

Southeast US Mark Lapinskes, Tektronix

Learning and Development Hy Tran, Sandia National Labs

Western US Tony Reed, Boeing

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Representative Organizations

• NMI Representatives to NCSLI

– NIST (US)

– NRC (Canada)

– CENAM (Mexico)

– NMIJ (Japan)

• Regional Representatives to NCSLI

– BIPM

– SIM

– EURAMET

– COOMET

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Liaison Organizations

• MSC

• ASQ

• APMP

• CFM

• EUROLAB

• OIML

• NLA

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Membership Demographics

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1. Canada

2. China

3. Czech Republic

4. Denmark

5. England

6. France

7. Germany

8. Hong Kong

9. India

10. Ireland

11. Japan

12. Kuwait

13. Lebanon

14. Malaysia

15. Mexico

16. Netherlands

17. New Zealand

18. Panama

19. Peru

20. Portugal

21. Puerto Rico

22. Saudi Arabia

23. Singapore

24. South Africa

25. Sweden

26. Taiwan R.O.C.

27. Thailand

28. United Kingdom

29. United States

Committees

• Measurement Requirements and Analysis

– Measurement Requirements

– Measurement Comparison Programs

– Intrinsic and Derived Standards

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Committees

• Laboratory Operations

– Measurement Information Infrastructure and

Automation

– Laboratory facilities

– Calibration procedures

– Test equipment management

– Testing laboratories

– Accreditation resources and liaison

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Committees

• Industrial Programs

– Healthcare metrology

– Chemical metrology

– Utilities metrology

– Airline and aerospace metrology

– Legal metrology

– NCSLI Early career professionals

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Committees

• Standards and Practices

– Calibration System Resources

– Metrology Practices

• Calibration Intervals

• Measurement Decision Risk

• Statistical Process Control Methods

• Measurement Decision Support

• Measurement Uncertainty Analysis

– ANSI Standards Writing Group

– Dimensional

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Standards Development

• ISO/CASCO “Liaison A” Membership

• ISO/IEC 17025 Revision Committee

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Committees

• Learning and Development

– Training resources

– Financial resources

– Workplace and professional development

– Education liaison and outreach

– JD Simmons memorial scholarship

– Anthony Ulrich metrology scholarship

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Events

• Since 2009

– 28,424 students

– 67 volunteers

– 176 events

• 2012

– 7,094 students

– 32 volunteers

– 50 events

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Students 5186 5471 10673 7094

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Metrology Ambassador Outreach

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164 Education Liaison and Outreach

• Referring Links help drive new

viewers to MetrologyCareers.com

• Add a link from your website

2012 Referring Top Level Domains

1 www.msc-conf.com

2 www.linkedin.com

3 www.metrologyforum.tm.agilent.com

4 www.facebook.com

5 www.agilent.com

6 www.nist.gov

7 www.metrologyinfo.org

8 www.education.ncsli.org

9 www.worldmetrologyday.org

10 www.physics.byu.edu

Social Media•Facebook – 302 Likes

Publications

METROLOGIST Magazine

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• Available in print and digital to all members

Publications

MEASURE Magazine

• Peer reviewed journal

• Available in print and

electronic to all

members

• Also available at

Taylor and Francis

Online

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Publications

• Numerous publications available to members

• Laboratory Management

– Building a calibration laboratory

– Environmental monitoring

– Disaster recovery

• Intrinsic Standards Practices

– Deadweight Piston Gage

– Two Pressure Humidity Generator

• Recommended Practices

– Interval Analysis

– Interlaboratory Comparisons

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Publications

RP-18 Estimation and Evaluation of

Measurement Decision Risk

• Introduction – Why compute MDR?

• Uncertainty Analysis Overview

• MDR Analysis Basics

– Joint Probability

– Conditional Probability

– False Accept and False Reject Risk

– Risk Analysis Alternatives

– Classical and Bayesian MDR Analysis methods

• Computing Risk

• 214 page document

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Technical Exchange

February 25-27, 2018

The Florida Hotel & Convention Center, Orlando

2018 Event

• 24 Tutorials

• 213 Registrations

• 14 Exhibitors

Annual Workshop and Symposium

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• Total Attendance 705

• Tutorial Registrations 350

• Exhibitors 87

• Technical Program 78

presentations

• Posters 35

2018 Wildhack Award

• Highest honor of NCSLI

• 2018 Recipient Rich Davis, BIPM, retired

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2019 Workshop and Symposium

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Metrology in Motion

Cleveland, Ohio

August 24-29, 2019

Partnering with Fellow Organizations

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Thank You