On April 12, 2018, the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Lille will host a meeting co-organized byAFNOR Hauts-de-France and the Collège Français de Métrologie entitled "Metrology at the heart of ISO 9001: 2015." This will be an opportunity to revisit a key discipline that is a pillar of the industry of the future.
Dimensional metrology is at the heart of Thierry Coorevits' work as a senior lecturer in metrology at the Lille campus, but metrology covers all disciplinary fields. The event on April 12 will focus on the new ISO9001 standard, which has a significant impact on all areas.
From declaration of conformity to R&D
For Thierry Coorevits, "metrology is too often reduced to its formal aspect: determining whether a part is compliant or not and all the periodic operations related to instrument control." However, for this expert in dimensional metrology and chairman of the scientific council of the National Metrology Laboratory, "the main challenge for metrology is to create added value at the lowest possible cost, which represents a real paradigm shift." On an industrial level, this means mastering manufacturing processes and radically changing metrology practices, moving from "labeling" to "smart metrology," to use DeltaMu's expression. Beyond that, metrology has a place in research and development. Thierry Coorevits adds, "By definition, nothing is perfect; there will always be imperfections in manufactured parts, but they must have as little impact on the customer as possible." We can even go further: some imperfections are useful, and a perfectly smooth surface is not always the goal. It is necessary to make the connection between the process, the product, and the function. Metrology has its place in this triptych and thus contributes to the improvement of production and industrial innovation. "That's the exciting part of the job," says Thierry Coorevits.
Training, research, and partnerships focused on the metrology of the future
This Arts et Métiers engineer, a member of the MSMP, draws on his experience to teach the metrology of the future to engineering students and students in the Materials and Surfaces Engineering research master's program. From courses on geometric product specifications and applications on a three-dimensional measuring machine to surface metrology, "our links with industry enable us to anchor the courses in the real world." This is the case, for example, with the "Metrology of the Future" Techdays, organized throughout France with Zeiss, one of our partners. Thierry Coorevits presents his vision of the metrology of the future, which is based on five pillars: fundamental metrology (units, traceability, uncertainties); frontier metrology, "which is metrology in difficult conditions, measuring very small or very large objects or in difficult conditions"; connected objects and everything associated with them (big data, machine learning, etc.) in order to collect ever more data but giving it value to better manage production, for example; new metrology tools related to quantum mechanics or optics; and finally, metrology at the heart of the process in order to manage manufacturing.
Metrology at the heart of ISO 9001:2015
On April 12, starting at 1:30 p.m., the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Lille will host a meeting co-organized by AFNOR Hauts-de-France and the Collège Français de Métrologie. On the agenda: discussions about the ISO 9001:2015 standard and its close link to metrology, and an introduction to the metrology activities of the Arts et Métiers campus Arts et Métiers Lille.
Information and registration: https://www.afnor.org/evenement/metrologie-coeur-norme-iso-9001-2015/
