Scientific and Industrial Metrology

Metrology can be described as a set of discipline aimed at assuring the quality, credibility and trust on measurements. Inmetro´s role is not limited to assuring the standards of the work; it is also a deposit of good knowledge. After all, Inmetro´s commitment is with Brazil´s economic growth.

Therefore, Inmetro operates as a key instrument to public policies, especially in areas such as industry, foreign trade, science and technology, health, environment and support of citizenship. It is directly committed with the development and competitiveness of the nation´s companies, as well as with defending other interests.

Besides the key scientific and technological affairs linked to metrology, the metrology institutes in developed countries have had the need to dispose of (1) a broad vision on socio-economic and scientific factors and their reflections on metrology; (2) high capacity for scientific researching; (3) a stronger link with the government´s policies; (4) large and broad partnerships with the producing sector; (5) higher capacity for monitoring and supervising the nation´s metrological activities; (6) and more capacity to seek insertion in the overseas market.

Metrology, thus, overcomes the conventional limits of a laboratory, at the same time as deepens its scientific roots and establishes itself in industrial policy as an important tool. Even though such a scenario is new at some countries, in developed ones like the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, much of it has been present since the creation of their national metrology institutes, over 100 years ago.

For contact at the Scientific and Industrial Metrology Department: call Joao Alziro Herz da Jornada at ++ 55 (21) 2563 - 2905.