DOHA: The Doha-headquartered Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC), in collaboration with Qatar’s Ministry of Environment, the GCC Standardisation Organization (GSO) and GULFMET will organise the First Gulf Metrology Forum (GMF) and exhibition here in December 2015.
The GMF is the first of its kind to be held in the GCC region as the forum targets government and private laboratories, relevant institutions and companies, ministries of commerce, industry and environment and industrial companies operating in the areas of oil, gas, energy, petrochemicals, metallurgy, electricity, electronics and medical appliances, in addition to universities, scientific research institutions and international organisations specialised in metrology and calibration.
The two-day forum will exchange ideas about the best means to raise public and industrial awareness to comply with industrial measurements, to assess the requirements of Gulf industries and institutions in the area of metrology, and to examine means of increasing national capacities in the field of industrial measurements.
The global metrology services market is expected to reach $824.6m by 2020, which indicates that increasing demand for high-precision components in key end-use industries such as automotive, electronics and power generation is expected to drive the market over the next five years. In the face of technology and growth challenges, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are a growing market for world metrology services. Moreover, regional conformity assessment schemes are important elements in the internationalization of metrology activities in the GCC. Not only in the energy industries, but in all gas and oil industries, demand for metrology services has risen considerably over the past decade, GOIC said.
Many international organisations and companies are expected to participate in this Forum. At the forum, ideas will be exchanged on how to attract new metrology activities in various fields, international best practices to reinforce metrology infrastructure as part of quality development in member states, the role of national metrology institutes and laboratories, the experiences of member states in supporting metrology activities and local laboratories, means to cooperate with international laboratories, and on how to put together recommendations to support metrology activities in the GCC.
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