SPECIAL SESSION #6
Pathways to digital transformation
ORGANIZED BY
Jon Bartholomew
Jon Bartholomew
Emirates Metrology Institute
Blair Hall
Blair Hall
Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand
Nikita Zviagin
Nikita Zviagin
D.I.Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology, Russia
ABSTRACT
There are 256 institutes currently participating in the CIPM MRA, and many more laboratories and regulatory bodies that will be affected by digital transformation of the international quality infrastructure. The needs, expertise, and resources of these various participants will vary greatly; a few are advanced along their digitalisation pathway, while many more feel daunted by the task ahead. However, unlike other sweeping technological changes in metrology, digital systems are ubiquitous. Institutes in all economies are facing the challenge of designing and implementing innovative solutions that are fit for the needs of particular communities and compatible with the emerging global standards.
This session is intended for participants still in the early stages of transformation, or with needs that differ substantially from more advanced technological economies. It is a forum to share experience about novel and innovative approaches to digital transformation.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Jon Bartholomew is Head of the Electrical, Time and Frequency Laboratory at Emirates Metrology Institute (EMI) the national metrology institute of the United Arab Emirates. He is a Chartered Physicist with an MSc in Industrial Measurement Systems from Brunel University, UK. He started work in Electrical Metrology in 1990, working at the National Physical Laboratory, UK and in Saudi Arabia before joining EMI at its founding in 2013. He has also worked as a systems engineer with a focus on process improvement through the modelling of standards, requirements and processes. He is the GULFMET TC chair leader and chair of the GULFMET working group on digital transformation.
Blair Hall leads a digitalisation project at the Measurement Standards Laboratory of New Zealand (MSL). He is a founding member of IMEKO TC6 and represents MSL at the CIPM Forum on Metrology and Digitalization. As the inaugural Chair of the APMP focus group on Digitalisation in Metrology (APMP-DXFG) from 2021 to 2024, Blair has supported digital transformation initiatives across the Asia-Pacific metrology community. He earned a doctorate in physics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and joined MSL in 1998 after working at the Swiss National Metrology Institute (METAS) and lecturing in physics and electronics at Massey University, New Zealand.
Nikita Zviagin is the head of the International Cooperation Department of D.I.Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology (VNIIM), Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He has a degree of mechanical engineer of the Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University. Started his work in metrology in 2006 as a researcher in the laboratory for theoretical metrology in VNIIM (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). For a long time has been working in the field of metrological software validation, processing of comparison data and legal metrology. In 2017-2018 has been working at the secondment at the BIPM as an Executive Secretary of the Joint Committee of Regional Metrology Organizations and the Bureau (the JCRB). Actively participates in the work of COOMET (Euro-Asian Cooperation of National Metrological Institutions). In 2023 became the Chair of the Joint Committee on Measurement Standards (JCMS) of the COOMET. Since 2024 chairs the Working Group on RMO Coordianation of the CIPM Forum on Metrology and Digitaliztion.
