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Session Topic: 8A, Quality Systems

   

Paper Title: Facing the Challenge of Measurement Interoperability: Taiwan's Dilemmas in Establishment of a National Measurement System

   

Date & Time: WEDNESDAY, August 7, 2002

 

2:30 - 4:00pm - PARALLEL SESSIONS - SESSION 8

   

Speaker: Tzeng-Yow Lin National Measurement Laboratory, Taiwan

Email: Tzeng-Yow.Lin@itri.org.tw

   

For an export-oriented country like Taiwan, measurement interoperability has been a key concern in establishment a national measurement system (NMS). Three aspects of measurement interoperability include repeatability, comparability and traceability of measurements. Taiwan has been recognized as an important base for product development with flexible manufacture and dynamic design in a global product value chain. The first dilemma in establishing a NMS is to support timely the metrology demand from fast-growing industries such as semiconductor fabrication and opto-electronics manufacture, of which the process may enhance in double in less than every two years (Moore’s law). In the meantime, some metrology standards (such as force) for traditional industry are still to be improved in Taiwan area, although the demands (for instance several tons of force) from machine tool industry are considerably different from that of emerging industry (for instance several gram force for TFT-LCD testing). In addition, due to space limitation of CMS-NML, some key laboratories are guided to help implement the NMS, especially those fields requiring large facilities and heavy equipment. For instance CMS-NML has helped a state-owned petroleum company to establish large volume flow laboratories of gas and liquid. Finally, the latest results of evaluation of CMS-NML by a group of metrology experts from other national metrology institutes are reported in the paper.

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