On April 24-26, 2023 the European Weighing Industry Association (CECIP) organized the first meeting of the International Conference of Weighing (ICW) in Hamburg, Germany. The theme of the inaugural meeting was Weighing in a Global Digital World! and the meeting focused on the ongoing technological changes in the weighing industry. More than 200 stakeholders from 25 countries including manufacturers, regulators, and scientist, attended the conference, including several individuals from NIST, including Jan Konijnenburg and Katrice Lippa from OWM.
The conference offered numerous presentations on topics regarding legal metrology, applied metrology and scientific metrology. This unique design blended all three of these metrology areas to allow many relevant areas to be addressed in a single conference. This included weighing in motion of vehicles, the rise of artificial intelligence applications, the new definition of the kilogram, new approaches in market surveillance, digitalization and automation of certification processes, among the many other topics. This first edition is widely regarded as a success. The next edition of the ICW will be in 2026 and will be organized by the Japanese Measuring Instrument Federation.
NIST OWM had the privilege to provide a presentation regarding the changes in the OIML recommendation for non-automatic weighing instruments, and the impact of digitalization on these instruments. Other US contributions included presentations from Leon Chao and Lorenz Keck of the NIST Fundamental Electrical Measurements Group on the new kilogram definition and the Kibble balance, and a presentation by NCWM on the NTEP evaluation of weigh-in-motion systems for weighing vehicles.
The ICW Conference with some of the US representatives (right panel). From left to right (far right panel): Mahesh Albuquerque (NCWM), Jan Konijnenburg (NIST ..
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