MoU between NIMT and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) to develop metrology systems

Posted on 30th May 202231st May 2022 by iro

On Monday, May 30, 2022, Mrs. Ajchara Charoensook, Director of NIMT and Mr. Boonyanit Wongrukmitt, Governor of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on “Cooperation for the development of metrology systems” between NIMT and EGAT.

Two agencies set the scope of cooperation in five points as follows;
1. Exchange knowledge, technology and innovations in metrology.
2. Research and develop a body of knowledge in metrology systems.
3. Appoint representatives of the agencies to join a related metrology working group.
4. Support to temporally use of metrology tools.
5. Exchange experience and learn from EGAT.

: Flg.Off. Uthai Norranim, NIMT and Mr.Sampop Wachirabanchong, EGAT

: Mr. Anusorn Tonmuenwai, NIMT and Mr.Sanae Khantri, EGAT

NIMT plays an important role in the development of electrical metrology systems which various users accept the standard values. The users has obtained the correct standard values and has been comparable to other agencies. Thus the standards value from NIMT will ensure to be accepted internationally. In their ceremony, Deputy Director of NIMT, Assistant Director of NIMT and their staff members attended online together. With this cooperation, the ability to develop electrical metrology systems will be sustainable and profitable to the economic of Thailand. The ceremony was held online from NIMT, Pathum Thani province.

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NIMT runs training on “Control system for measuring instruments according to the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 17025, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001” Batch 3

Posted on 27th May 202230th May 2022 by iro

NIMT Organized an online course training on “Control system for measuring instruments according to the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO 17025, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001” Batch 3 to participants from both the public and private sectors. A trainer of the course was Dr. Monthon Homklintian, Acting Leader of Primary Electrical, Time and Frequency Standard Group. The purpose of the course is to understand the national metrology system and National Quality Infrastructure (NQI), understanding the importance of accurate measurements and metrological traceability, how to assess the uncertainty, and the requirements for measuring instrument accuracy and the metrological traceability in accordance with ISO 17025, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001. Besides that, the participants will be able to manage the measuring instrument control system according to the requirements. This training was online at the developing measurement standards to support the rail system development building, NIMT, Pathum Thani province on May 26 – 27, 2022.

MoU on “Cooperation in Metrology between NIMT and King Prajadhipok Memorial Hospital

Posted on 26th May 202230th May 2022 by iro

Director of NIMT Mrs. Ajchara Charoensook and Director of King Prajadhipok Memorial Hospital (Phrapokklao Hospital) Dr.Theeraphon Tunakh, M.D., jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on “Cooperation in Metrology between the National Institute of Metrology (Thailand) (NIMT) and Phrapokklao Hospital. In the event, executives and staff officers from both institutes attended the signing ceremony.

The cooperation aims to jointly develop the body of knowledge, exchange the technology transfer in metrology, as well as develop measurement calibration skills for their staff officers. NIMT develops the ability of medical equipment for King Prajadhipok Hospital to reach international standards. Besides that, NIMT jointly cooperates in research and development in metrology to create concrete innovations. The ceremony was held at the conference room on the 10th Fl, Cancer Center Building, Prapokklao Hospital, Chanthaburi province on May 26, 2022.

Prapokklao Hospital has participated in the “Incubator and Certification on Medical Metrology Academic Ability” recently. The objectives of the project are to build a social network of quality medical metrology laboratories, building Metrological Traceability to medical measuring instruments through network laboratories, and building the acceptance of measurement, calibration, and testing results for Thai medical laboratories.

For further information and activities, feel free to visit the project website at https://www.nimt.or.th/main/?p=37959 or contact Mr.Tassanai Sanponpute, Project manager, Mobile: 086-545-1722.

NIMT trains on “Calibration of Electrical Calibrators”

Posted on 24th May 202224th May 2022 by iro

NIMT organized a metrology training course on the topic “Calibration of Electrical Calibrators” for participants from both public, private and industry sectors. They will be able to calibrate all calibrator functions and know the measurement technique that impacts on measurement. Also, they are able to assess the uncertainty of the measurement, write the calibration procedure correctly, and read the calibration report. Trainer of the training was Mr. Adithep Jang-On (main trainer), an expert metrologist and Mr. Kongsak Thongboon (assistant trainer) from Electrical Power and High-accuracy Electrical Measuring Instrument Group. The participants will learn its theory related to calibrators, traceability, effects of calibration, calibrator Manuals using and multi-product calibrators. They will be able to apply the knowledge to practical application. The training was held at the meeting room on the 3rd floor of the Measurement Standard Development Building to support the rail system development, NIMT, Pathum Thani province on May 23-25, 2022.

: MR.KONGSAK THONGBOON

: MR.ADITHEP JANG-ON

Director attends the Brainpower Thailand 2022 exhibition at Khon Kaen University

Posted on 19th May 202224th May 2022 by iro

Director of NIMT Mrs. Ajchara Charoensook attended the Brainpower Thailand 2022 exhibition with the theme of “Worthy of the open House, Found the city, Create people across borders to the industry of the future”. The exhibition was organized by the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Innovation (PMU-B), Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council (NXPO) to present outstanding PMU-B activity results throughout the year 2020-2022 linking to the capital management approaches under the Science, Research and Innovation Plan B.E. 2023. -2570. It is also an event to build a network of human resources development, science ecosystems, research and innovation of Thailand.

All presentations and activities were blended with Isan identity with creative media such as movies, music, performing arts to the creative economy value added. The creative economy is composed of various knowledge, intellectual properties (IPs) and research which are connected to the Isan cultural and historical backgrounds, the stock of social knowledge, technology and innovation for business development. Hence, the new goods and service production will create value-added to the economy and society.

The exhibition were divided into 4 Sessions as follows:

Session 1: Activities concerning to Social and Humanities Sciences, and Arts and Culture (Frontier Research SHA)
Session 2: PMU and Thailand’s leading manpower development and research network
Session 3: Networking Activities on “Brain Power Thailand”
Session 4: The Future of Brain Power Thailand

In the event, Director of NIMT co-signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoU) on “BRAINPOWER THAILAND 2022” under the theme “Worthy of the open House, Found the city, Create people across borders to the industry of the future”. There are 5 MoUs, namely, Frontier SHA Consortium, Frontier Technology Consortium on HEP, Quantum, Earth Science & Space, BCG, Global Partnership on Future University-Industry Ecosystem, Frontier AI on Personal Health AI Consortium (Khon Kaen smart living lab Phase II) and Regional Science Park Network. The exhibition was held at Khon Kaen University Art & Cultural Center, Khon Kaen province on May 19, 2022.

Director signs MoU with all RUT for “Metrology for Industry” course

Posted on 18th May 202224th May 2022 by iro

Director of NIMT Mrs. Ajchara Charoensook and Rajamangala University of Technology Network which has been led by the Chairperson of Rajamangala University of Technology (RUT) Commission and Rector of RUT Assist. Prof. Dr. Sommai Pivsa-Art recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation for the development of metrological systems between the NIMT and the RUT network in all 9 campuses, namely;

1. Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi
2. Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep
3. Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok
4. Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon
5. Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin
6. Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna
7. Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya
8. Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi and
9. Rajamangala University of Technology Isan

Both institute’s executives and officials witnessed the signing ceremony at the Royal Cliff Grand Hotel, Chonburi province on May 18, 2022.

This cooperation aims to jointly develop and produce metrology courses in both Degree and Non-Degree curriculums for students and staff members of all campuses, including the general people who are interested in metrology courses. Both institutes and all campuses will join to develop metrology research and technology to various public and private organizations. Both institutes jointly support the personnel development which both have potential. NIMT has a plan to create and develop a short-term course on “Metrology for Industry” which is a course that will be used in developing a body of knowledge in metrology for educational institutions. The students who take the course will be able to prepare themselves for the industrial sector. The students will get knowledge and abilities in terms of measuring instrument calibration that make them ready to enter the future labour market.

NIMT metrologist Jutarat Tanarom obtains a Ph.D. through the “NMIJ’s Studying Abroad Program” (NMIJ Newsletter No.15, May 2022)

Posted on 18th May 202218th May 2022 by iro

Congratulations to Dr.Jutarat Tanarom on the occasion of receiving a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications (UEC). This program has shown already closely heart-to-heart cooperation between NIMT and NMIJ. Here is an article on NMIJ Newsletter No. 15, May 2022. For more reading, visit https://unit.aist.go.jp/qualmanmet/nmijico/en/Newsletter/NMIJ_Newsletter_2022_No15.pdf

“Ms. Jutarat Tanarom, a metrologist at Electrical Metrology Department, National Institute of Metrology (Thailand) (NIMT) has received a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Japan through the NMIl’s Studying Abroad Program in December 2021. In 2016, Ms.Tanarom participated in the “Briefing Session on Studying Abroad for NIMT Staff” hosted by NMI] to share the information of collaboration between the University in Japan and NMIT. With a scholarship from Thai government in collaboration with NMI|, she was accepted as a research student in 2017 and was admitted to a Ph.D. course in 2018 in UEC. In December 2021, she obtained a Doctor of Engineering degree. She says she believes that technical collaboration between NMI] and NIMT will be more fruitful and is looking forward to continuing the cooperation on quantum devices for the realization of SI Units between NMI and NIMT. Here is the message from her supervisor, Professor SHIMADA Hiroshi, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering. UEC. Ms.Tanarom conducted multiple experimental basic researches, applying supercurrent in a superconducting single electron transistor to a practical circuit. When it is combined with conventional superconductive electronics, the small supercurrent’s magnitude of transistor poses a serious obstacle. To overcome the obstacle, she studied the way to deal with the increase in supercurrent when transistors are connected in parallel and the changes in properties associated with it. In pursuit of adding new functions to a device using the transistor’s supercurrent, she also devised a new principle of a phonon detector and confirmed its operation. The sensitivity of the detector was experimentally found to be approximately 1000 times as large as that of the detector using conventional superconducting tunnel junctions. I expect that the outcomes of her research will be utilized in the research related to heat currents in nanodevices in the future.”

Focus group discussion on Thailand’s Metrology System Development Action Plan

Posted on 10th May 202217th May 2022 by iro

National Institute of Metrology (Thailand) (NIMT) and Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) organized a focus group discussion on drafting of the National Metrology System Development Action Plan, Phase 4 (2023 – 2027) to adjust and enhance the capacity of NIMT to be ready to bring Thailand’s metrology system into the 21st century.

The system is conducive to research, establishing measurement standards that are consistent with the new definition of the International System of Units (SI). The system has been applied to research and development of measurement processes and instruments to deliver metrological traceability to keep up with the modern world. It also is used as a foundation for Thailand’s digital quality infrastructure system including the application of measurement capabilities to meet the challenges of the country and the world in terms of economy, security and sustainability, especially, underlines on bio-economy development and a circular economy green economy (Bio-Circular-Green Economy: BCG Model) to be able to compete through the innovation. When the BCG economy grows and competes globally, it contributes income to the community, inequality solving, friendly to the environment and sustainable development.

On May 10, 2022, Bangkok, TDRI organized a focus group discussion with the main objective to receive opinions or Public Consultation from the public and private stakeholders on drafting of the National Metrology System Development Action Plan, Phase 4 (B.E. 2023 – 2027), drafting of the 5-Year Government Action Plan (2023 – 2027) and drafting of the Yearly Government Service Plan 2023 of the National Institute of Metrology (Thailand). The drafts will be appropriate and consistent with the needs of users. It also creates awareness for agencies involved in the metrology system to accept the plans for the next 5 years, especially government agencies acting on behalf of the National Institute of Metrology (Thailand) (Designate Institutes; DIs) and other NQI agencies in order to move forward to seeing the unity direction.

Today, Mrs.Ajchara Charoensook, Director of NIMT, presided over the opening of the discussion. NIMT invited Dr.Sumet Ongkittikul, Research Director of Transportation and Logistics Policy, TDRI to present about the results of the study of the Measure System Development Action Plan. The National Sciences, Phase 4 (2023 – 2027). The discussion was joined by metrology related-representatives among Dr.Withit Puengkan from the Office of Atoms for Peace, Dr.Pattarawee Soisangwan, from the Department of Medical Sciences, Dr.Wadee Wichaidit, from Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, Mrs.Utumporn Kaewnamdee , from Thai Industrial Standards Institute, Dr.Nirawat Thammachak, from the Office of the Science Promotion Commission Research and Innovation and Ms.Chamoy Thnglue, from Central Laboratory. They gave their comments and suggestions. The discussion was online from Piman Siam conference room, 29th floor, The Athene Hotel, Bangkok.

Thailand Standard Time on an accurate digital network

Posted on 21st April 202226th April 2022 by iro

The expansion of Digital Society, Internet, e-Commerce or even Metaverse that we have only recently heard about. It has been working tally with Thailand Standard Time (TST). Hence, TST has to be built on a digital network to aggregate the various activities of humans, computers, robots, and AI algorithms to go hand in hand. Currently, the standard time system on digital networks has evolved to the 3rd generation with low error.

In detail, the 1st Generation has an error of milliseconds (thousandths of a second). The 2nd Generation has a microsecond (millionth of a second) error and the 3rd Generation, the latest development, has an error as low as nanoseconds (a billionth of a second). It is dispersed in all fields such as radar, military, aviation, high-speed rail, banking, communications, 5G network, and even money transfers. Since establishing the NIMT National Time Protocol (NTP) in 2005, it has been accessed increasingly. From the beginning of NTP service, NIMT has only 2 devices to support the whole country requirement. Afterwards, NIMT was able to provide 3 and 4 devices accordingly. The existing devices could be ripe for whole capabilities that time. Until 2020, the demand for NTP calibrating has reached 120 million times per day. Those devices may not be adequate to be ready for service. Therefore, NIMT has developed the Standard Time for Digital Infrastructure of Thailand to create a standard for the country’s digital system. It supports the global digital transformation under the standardization support.

It was generally known that NIMT has built and established a standard time system on a digital network for over 20 years. From a little point, from the microsecond era to the nanosecond era, now NIMT has a large Time Infrastructure to make Thailand stable and has the potential to compete as a rival in a digital world that keeps evolving from the past to the future tangibly.

On April 1, 2022, the standard time infrastructure for high-performance digital networks to 200,000 transactions per second was activated for the first time in Thailand. Then, NIMT established a high-performance standard time transmission system via the Internet to serve as an infrastructure to support the users of standard time on the digital network of Thailand. It is sufficient and sustainable to meet the needs of all sectors. Currently, the TST for Digital Infrastructure has 5 channels as follows;

time1.nimt.or.th time2.nimt.or.th time3.nimt.or.th time4.nimt.or.th time5.nimt.or.th

Please see more detail this link https://www.nimt.or.th/main/?page_id=15520

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Mahidol University Students visit NIMT Labs

Posted on 30th March 202226th April 2022 by iro

Assistant Director of NIMT Dr.Charun Yafa and Acting Head of Chemical and Biological Metrology Department Dr.Nongluck Tanpaisarnkul welcomed Dr.Tinnakorn Tiensingh, a lecturer and his students from the Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science Mahidol University to visit NIMT labs (online). NIMT provided virtual lab visiting. The students freely enjoyed accessing to the labs. The online visiting was held on March 30, 2022 from NIMT, Pathum Thani province.

: Dr. Charun Yafa from NIMT

: Dr.Tinnakorn Tiensing from Mahidol University

: Online fieldwork

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