Welcome to the Winter issue of the BMTA Newsletter
It’s been a very busy time for our members over the past few months. The end of the year meant that Brexit transition was completed and that we are now no longer a member of the EU. Combined with the Testing, Measurement and Calibration industry being at the forefront of the Covid-19 issue, this has meant many of our members have been busier than ever.
As such, this issue is filled with articles and features on those subject matters. We look at the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 transition; the end of the Brexit transition from an accreditation perspective; conformity assessment post Brexit; and why the measurement infrastructure is so vital in the economic recovery from Covid-19.
To help us provide our BMTA members with useful information we would like your help to:
- identify and share relevant topics;
- provide research on new technologies or techniques;
- let us know industry news;
- promote events and training sessions;
- inform us of publications you think may be of interest to your fellow BMTA members.
Contact us at editor@bmta.co.uk
Laura Vallis
Editor – BMTA Newsletter
editor@bmta.co.uk
THE FEATURES INCLUDE:
SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE IN OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER:
Page 2 – Editor’s Note
Page 3 – Meet our Newsletter Contributors
Page 4 – News
Page 6 – Compendium of Examples of Measurement Uncertainty Evaluation
By Professor Maurice Cox, NPL Senior Fellow, Data Science Department, NPL
Page 7 – ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Transition Update
By Paul Greenwood, Operations Director, UKAS
Page 8 – ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Ensuring the Validity of Results – Are These New Requirements?
By Trevor Thompson, bestmeasurement.com
Page 10 – End of Brexit Transition – An Accreditation Perspective
By Paul Greenwood, Operations Director, UKAS
Page 12 – EU FTA Transition (UKCA)
By Terence Boniface, Assistant Director, Advanced Manufacturing Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, UKCA
Page 14 – Conformity Assessment Post Brexit – Placing New Manufactured Products on the Market in The UK, Northern Ireland and the EU after 1 January 2021
By Jeff Llewellyn, President BMTA, and non-Executive
Director, UKAS
Page 16 – Automated Calibration of Non-Automated Devices
By Matt Gypps, UK Technical Manager, Trescal
Page 18 – Making Regulatory Chemical Emissions Tests Easier For Construction Products Manufacturers
By Elinor Hughes, Technical Copywriter, Markes International
Page 22 – Why Is The Measurement Infrastructure Vital In Economic Recovery From Covid-19?
By Dr Richard Brown, Head of Metrology, NPL
Page 24 – Company Profile – 3M
To help us provide our BMTA members with useful information we would like your help to:
- identify and share relevant topics;
- provide research on new technologies or techniques;
- let us know industry news;
- promote events and training sessions;
- inform us of publications you think may be of interest to your fellow BMTA members.
If you would like to contribute to the next issue of the BMTA Newsletter please contact editor@bmta.co.uk with a brief synopsis.
Equally, should your business produce any information, white papers or interviews that you would like to share, please submit this to enquiries@bmta.co.uk.