GTMA Make Measurement Matter event

Free parking and free refreshments are available to all visitors and a key focus of the event will be over 35 of the top UK inspection and metrology companies exhibiting, along with the extensive networking opportunity in a relaxed environment. GTMA chief executive Julia Moore says: "This is the sixth time we have hosted the MMM event and by doing so the GTMA is providing a focal point for a technology transfer from the science of measurement into the most demanding manufacturing environments." Visitors will gain first-hand knowledge from leading industry and academia key note speakers. These include Philip Bamforth, measurement manager, Rolls-Royce plc. He is responsible for leading the measurement and inspection community across the Rolls-Royce global manufacturing business, principally focused on: technology development and deployment; standards & inspection quality systems, and external networks, partnerships and suppliers. And Mark Thomas, principal instrumentation engineer, BAE Systems - Submarine Solutions, who will be speaking about measurement within large scale manufacturing. From academia will be Graham Machin, head, temperature standards, NPL Fellow. He joined the Temperature Group at NPL in 1991, after completing his DPhil at the University of Oxford on the Physics of Compact Stellar Binary Systems. He has published more than 100 papers on temperature-related measurement issues and has given numerous invited lectures around the world. He has worked twice as an invited guest researcher at NMIJ (Japan) and also at NIM (China). Graham Machin is the NPL representative on the BIPM Consultative Committee for Thermometry (CCT), chair of the CCT working group on radiation thermometry and a member of the CCT taskforce for the Kelvin redefinition and CCT working group on temperature scales. He is also NPL's representative on Euramet TC Thermometry, chair of TCT strategy group and member of the Euramet TCT cmc review group. Registration is open at www.makemeasurementmatter.com