The International High‐level Forum on High‐end Measurement Instruments (IFMI) is sponsored by Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). The technical sponsor is the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering of CAE. It is a platform for international first‐rate scientists, technical specialists, and entrepreneurs working in the fields of metrology, industrial measurement, and instrument R&D to jointly discuss the development strategies of international high‐end measurement technology. IFMI is to be held in 2024 for the third time.
The International Symposium on Precision Engineering Measurements and Instrumentation (ISPEMI) is sponsored by the International Committee on Measurements and Instrumentation (ICMI) and Chinese Society for Measurement (CSM). It is hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), and jointly organized by the Instrumentation Committee of CSM (IC‐CSM) and Beijing Information Science and Technology University (BISTU). Since its establishment in 1999, ISPEMI has been successfully held in different cities in China for 12 times. It has now become an international influential symposium concentrating on academic exchange in the field of measurements and instrumentation.
In 2024, the IFMI and ISPEMI will convene jointly. This collaborative event aims to bring together leading scientists, technical specialists, and entrepreneurs to deliberate on the opportunities and challenges presented by the ongoing scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. The primary focus will be on the future landscape of measurement systems, instrument technology, and the instrument industry. By providing a platform for evaluating the direction of both international and national measurement systems, as well as the instrument industries, IFMI & ISPEMI 2024 aims to facilitate insights that anticipate future trends, based on which chart the course for the establishment of robust international and national measurement systems, and to strategize the developmental pathways for emerging instrument technologies and enterprises.
The forthcoming opportunities and challenges are mainly rooted in two key factors. Firstly, the full implementation of the international unit system on the basis of fundamental physical constants in 2019 will definitely lead to a new‐round transformation in international and national measurement systems, instrument technology and instrument industry. Secondly, the new round of S&T revolution will bring breakthroughs across various domains, including information technology, biotechnology, new energy technology, new material technology, intelligence manufacturing technology. In particular, the high‐end manufacturing industry is on the brink of entering a new era of digitalization, networking and intelligence, generating enormous shocks and challenges for existing international and national measurement systems, as well as the technological and industrial infrastructure of measurement instruments. Simultaneously, it unveils significant opportunities and new missions that demand strategic consideration and proactive engagement.
How future international and national measurement systems will look like? What technological formation and industrial system of measurement instruments will be in the future? How we should cope with those changes? For all the considerations mentioned above, CAE and ICMI sponsor IFMI and ISPEMI 2024 to provide first‐rate scientists, technical specialists, and entrepreneurs with a platform for high‐level discussion and academic exchange.