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Report from SIM Meeting of the Regional Legal Metrology Organizations Orlando, FL, USA

Report from SIM Meeting of the Regional Legal Metrology Organizations Orlando, FL, USA September 20, 2010. SIM Legal Metrology Working Group (LMWG): A forum open to the participation of any country member of the Organization of American States (OAS).

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Report from SIM Meeting of the Regional Legal Metrology Organizations Orlando, FL, USA

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  1. Report from SIM Meeting of the Regional Legal Metrology Organizations Orlando, FL, USA September 20, 2010

  2. SIM Legal Metrology Working Group (LMWG): A forum open to the participation of any country member of the Organization of American States (OAS). Training activities have been the main priority of legal metrology in SIM. General Meeting of the LMWG: Quito, Ecuador, March 2008. Strategies to meet the training needs: To take into account the training subjects chosen by each SIM region. The attendants should come from the countries of the SIM region where the event is held.

  3. Objectives of the training courses and associated events To provide a reference on how to implement legal metrological control activities, including the legal control of measuring instruments and the legal control of the quantity in prepackages. The contents of the courses are usually based on OIML Recommendations.

  4. Sources of financial support for the activities of the SIM Legal Metrology Working Group have been: The SIM-OAS Project FINEP (the Brazilian Innovation Agency) PTB CROSQ (the Regional Organization for Standards and Quality of the Caribbean Community)

  5. Events of the SIM Legal Metrology Working Group

  6. Events of the SIM Legal Metrology Working Group

  7. Events of the SIM Legal Metrology Working Group

  8. Training activities have been designed to maximize the learning process. Example 1: Many tests required for type-approval of instruments used for the measurement of the speed of vehicles are based on standards which involve electrical quantities. A training course on these instruments was coupled to a seminar on electrical metrology in order to provide the participants with a broader and deeper view of the target subject.

  9. Training activities have been designed to maximize the learning process. Example 2: Courses on requirements for evidential breath analyzers are better understood when topics of mass flow controllers, gas flow measurement, chemical thermodynamics and chemical metrology are also presented to the audience.

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