Chapter 1: Measurement challenge: specification and design
1.1 Processes of production and measurement
1.2 Measurement, assessment, opinions - from quantitative observations to categorization
1.3 Opening the quality-assurance loop
1.4 Specification of measurement problem
1.5 Case study: Fit-for-purpose measurement specification
Chapter 2: Measurement method and system development
2.1 Design of experiments
2.2 Specification of demands on a measurement system
2.3 Choice and development of a measurement method
2.4 Measurement System Analysis
2.5 Evaluation and validation of a measurement method
2.6 Verification
2.7 Case studies
Chapter 3: Ensuring traceability
3.1 Quantity calculus
3.2 Units and symmetry, conservation laws and minimum entropy
3.3 Calibration, accuracy and true values
3.4 Politics and philosophy of metrology
3.5 Quantitative and qualitative scales
3.6 New and future measurement units
Chapter 4: Measurement
4.1 Performing measurements
4.2 Metrological confirmation
4.3 Case study: Example of measurements
Chapter 5: Measurement report and presentation
5.1 Presentation of measurement results
5.2 Modelling measurement principle
5.3 Case studies
Chapter 6: Decisions about product
6.1 Use of measurement results and conformity assessment
6.2 Closing the quality-assurance loop
6.3 Optimised uncertainties, impact and measurement costs, pragmatic extensions of significance testing
6.4 Risks of incorrect decisions and relation to measurement uncertainty
6.5 Qualitative measurement and entropy
6.6 Case studies
About the Author: Professor Leslie R. Pendrill has for much of his career since the mid 1980's been head of research at the National Metrology Institute of RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. For decades, his research has focused on fundamental metrology, in particular optoelectronic, laser, length and mass measurement. More recently, he has developed new quality-assured measurement methods in which Man is the main actor, weighing the effects of measurement against the effects of product evaluations, including optimised measurement, uncertainty studies and the measurement of perception. Professor Pendrill has been actively involved in several international metrology activities including being Chair of the European Association of National Metrology Institutes (EURAMET); the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics' Commission on Symbols, Units, Nomenclature, Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants; and the ISO/TC12 Quantities and units standards committee. He earned his PhD in Atomic Physics at the University of Reading, England and moved to Sweden after postdoctoral positions in Paris at the École normale supérieure, JILA Research Institute in Boulder CO, and Oxford University.
