The International Measurement Confederation IMEKO, Technical Committee 10 on Testing, Diagnostics & Inspection and EUROLAB aisbl kindly invite you to attend the 17th IMEKO TC 10 Conference: “Global trends in Testing, Diagnostics & Inspection for 2030” to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on October 19-22, 2020. It is the second conference jointly organized by IMEKO and EUROLAB aisbl with the aim to enhance the co-operation on global level. The participants will have an excellent opportunity to meet top specialists from all over the world with professional experience in industry, universities, research & development as well as in metrology, testing, inspection, diagnostics and certification. The conference is a forum for exchanging ideas about challenges for the third decade in regard to new technologies, techniques, methods, standards, conformity assessment, quality management and their application in industrial processes and scientific community. Leading keynote speakers will present their thoughts and achievements in the main topics of the Conference. Tutorial workshops will be held and conducted by prominent experts about actual issues on risk assessment in laboratories and statement of conformity.

Scientific Topics:

Basic principles and development trends in testing, diagnostics and inspection

Condition monitoring and maintenance of industrial processes, plants and complex systems: measurements and methods

Global market novelties and challenges for metrology and the TIC sector (Testing, Inspection and Certification)

New regulatory framework, standards and other normative documents for safety of industrial products, food safety, health and environmental protection

Competence and Quality management in the TIC sector, scientific community and industry, and Accreditation

Information management and privacy protection

Risk management in the TIC sector

Metrological traceability in testing, inspection and diagnostics

Measurement uncertainty

Verification and validation of methods

Inter-laboratory comparisons (ILC) and Proficiency Testing (PT) Schemes

Condition monitoring training as a part of the university curriculum

Quality assurance in condition monitoring

Novelties and trends in digital transformation of processes

Measurements, testing, inspection and diagnostics for industry 4.0

Data Analytics, artificial intelligence techniques and machine learning for testing, diagnostics and inspection

Testing, diagnostics and inspection for the improvement of quality of life and environment

Technical testing, diagnostics and inspection for Cyber security

*The contributions will be subject to the peer-review process and the selected papers will be published in the ACTA IMEKO.