Introduction to metrology management

Abstract

The new millennium brought challenges and paradigms for metrology. Scenarios like telecommunications, information technology, and computers have demonstrated that the speed of technological development hardware currently exceeded software. Modern computer machines have broadened their velocity and storage capacity, it is now common to speak of storage in terabytes. The field of scientific metrology is close to discovering the electronic mass standard based on Avogadro ́s number (6,025⋅10-24) or watt balance, which will broaden measurement accuracy. Soon, when we see a young womanwith a facial mole, it may be an ipod, given the high degree of nanoelectronic development. Recent review of International Basic and General terms in metrology - VIM, now ISO Guide 99:2008, shows a new metrology tendency, whichmust be understood by all the scientific, industrial, and legal community in an ever-more globalized world.